Service Provider Edge Router Market Hits Record Level in Third Quarter, According to Dell'Oro Group

Mobile Data Traffic Driving Demand for IP/MPLS Routers

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Dec 13, 2010, 09:15 ET

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Dec. 13, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- According to a newly published report by Dell'Oro Group, the trusted source for market information about the networking and telecommunications industries, the worldwide Service Provider Edge Router market attained a record level in the third quarter of 2010. Dell'Oro Group's research shows that the Service Provider Edge Router market expanded by more than 25 percent in the third quarter of 2010 compared with the same prior year period and surpassed $1.5 billion. Cisco Systems improved their market share lead in the third quarter, while Alcatel-Lucent overtook Juniper Networks for the second position.

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"The demand for edge routers in mobile backhaul networks in North America has picked up significantly this year," said Shin Umeda, Vice President at Dell'Oro Group. "Wireless service providers are beefing up their network capacity with IP/MPLS technologies as they race to roll out new high-speed data services and plan for the growth of mobile data traffic," added Umeda.

*3Q10 Worldwide Service Provider Edge Router Leaders*
Vendor	3Q10 Rank	2Q10 Rank
Cisco Systems	1	1
Alcatel-Lucent	2	3
Juniper Networks	3	2
Huawei	4	5
Tellabs	5	4

About the Report

The Dell'Oro Group Routers Quarterly Report offers complete, in-depth coverage of the market with tables covering Service Provider and Enterprise Router revenue, average selling prices and unit and port shipments (by speed T1/E1, T3/E3, OC-3/STM-1, OC-12/STM-4, OC-48/STM-16, OC-192/STM-64, OC-768/STM-256, 100Mbps Ethernet, 1000Mbps Ethernet, 10Gbps Ethernet, and 100Gbps Ethernet) for router technologies. To purchase this report, please contact Emily Kendall, call +1.650.622.9400 x223 or email [email protected].

About Dell'Oro Group

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