Revenues from this segment have grown at a compoundedannualgrowthrateof 16% over the past three years driven by strong organic growth supported by acquisitions.
Of course, the Dow advance comes to an annualcompoundedgrowthrateof about 6%, but by avoiding disastrous mistakes similar to those we made in this century, we could do even better in the next.
By 2016, the worldwide market for machine-to-machine connections is predicted to grow at a compoundedannualgrowthrateof 27 percent, and global connections are forecast to reach 365 million.