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CAMPBELL, California, June 4, 2008—Communications market research firm Infonetics Research reports that while sales of most service provider router and switch equipment were down in the 1st quarter of 2008, as is the norm, IP router sales bucked the trend and finished the quarter up 6%.
Infonetics’ quarterly report, Service Provider Routers and Switches, shows worldwide IP core and edge router revenue was up 23% for the 2007 calendar year and is up 35% year-over-year from 1Q07 to 1Q08.
“All service provider IP router vendors were up sequentially in the first quarter of 2008, ranging from big jumps, as from Fujitsu and Redback, to small gains, as from Huawei, and everything in between, as from the big guns, Cisco, Juniper, and Alcatel Lucent. Most of the IP router sales continue to hail from North America and EMEA, although Asia Pacific and CALA both saw very healthy IP core and edge router gains this quarter,” said Michael Howard, principal analyst and co-founder of Infonetics.
Other report highlights:
- Worldwide service provider router and switch revenue totaled $3.0 billion in 1Q08, down 1% from 4Q07
- In the overall market (IP routers, CES, ATM switches) Cisco and Juniper, the #1 and #2 vendors, respectively, each gained a point in worldwide revenue market share
- Cisco gained 6 revenue share points in the carrier Ethernet switch (CES) market, which is down 11%, and leads by far; Huawei maintains 2nd place, and Hitachi Cable gains enough share to pass Nokia Siemens for the #3 spot in 1Q08
- Worldwide ATM switch sales fell 29% sequentially
- In 2007, worldwide sales of service provider routers and switches totaled $11.2 billion, an all-time high for routers and switches, which have been steadily climbing since the nadir in 2003
Infonetics’ report provides market share, market size, forecasts, and port details for IP core and edge routers, carrier Ethernet switches (CES), and multiservice ATM switches. The report also tracks IP edge routers and CES by application (multiservice edge, BRAS, Ethernet access transport, and Ethernet services edge).
The report tracks Alcatel-Lucent, Ciena, Cisco, ECI, Ericsson, Extreme, Foundry, Fujitsu, Hitachi Cable, Huawei, Juniper, NEC, Nokia Siemens, Nortel, Redback, Tellabs, and others.
Download report highlights from our online portal by logging in above. For sales, contact Larry Howard, vice president, at larry@infonetics.com or +1 (408) 583-3335.
Infonetics Research (www.infonetics.com) is an international communications market research firm. Tracking emerging markets since 1990, Infonetics covers a broad range of service provider, product manufacturer, and enterprise and SMB markets, including network security, enterprise voice, unified communications, broadband networks, IPTV, IP video, mobile TV, optical networks, metro Ethernet, carrier routing and switching, wireless, FMC, VoIP, IMS, policy management, subscriber management, service management, carrier capex and opex, and more. Services include quarterly market share and forecasting, end-user survey research, service provider survey research, service provider capex analysis, and custom research and consulting..
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