Dittberner: Cisco Maintains Router/Switch Lead; Alcatel Gains

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Dittberner: Cisco Maintains Router/Switch Lead; Alcatel Gains

Dittberner today released their Quarterly Multiservice Switch and Router Market Analysis, and Cisco remained at the head of the pack with a quarterly increase of 13% in revenues. Most of Cisco’s growth was driven by success in the cable space and IPTV deployment.
 
The report points out that “...all market categories grew, notably the Service Provider Edge Router segment, which remained the fastest growing, with a 20% quarter-over-quarter change. Cisco leading the pack increased its Edge Router revenue by 24% over the last year. This increase was due partly to the success of Cisco’s MSO customers’ VoD services which require a great deal of bandwidth. Cisco’s customers IPTV deployment and network transformation needs also contributed to the increase in Edge Router sales.”
 
According to the report’s author, “The Multiservice Switch market segment showed slow growth in comparison and saw Alcatel pull even with perennial market leader Nortel. Lucent, Ericsson, Siemens, Ciena and Avici all posted strong revenue increases in the quarter. Revenues were driven largely by continued build-out of wireline broadband networks, wireless backhaul networks, network transformations and DSL overbuilds.”
 
For more information on this research, visit Dittberner online.


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