Mobile Operators Drive Growth in IP Router Market, According to Dell'Oro Group

Mobile Data Traffic Leading to Higher Router Investments

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Feb 10, 2011, 09:15 ET

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Feb. 10, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- According to a recent report by Dell'Oro Group, the trusted source for information about the networking and telecommunications industries, the worldwide service provider edge router market will experience significant growth as mobile operators purchase routers and expand network capacity to handle the surge in mobile data traffic. Dell'Oro Group forecasts the service provider edge router market to grow to by more than 60 percent to over $9 billion by 2015.

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"There is no doubt that mobile devices are going to drive the next wave of Internet traffic growth, and we expect mobile infrastructure to account for 30 percent to 50 percent of the service provider edge router market growth over the next five years," said Shin Umeda, Vice President of Routers research at Dell'Oro Group. "We are currently seeing the surge in North America, but we expect the same type of uptick to occur in Europe and Asia over the coming years," added Umeda.

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