Service Provider Router Market Bounces Back in the Fourth Quarter, According to Dell'Oro Group

Year-End Momentum to Carry Into 2010 and Revive Market Growth

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Feb 24, 2010, 09:07 ET

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Feb. 24 /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 router market recorded its highest sequential growth rate in more than two years during the fourth quarter of 2009. Quarterly router sales increased 15 percent to $2 billion dollars, a marked improvement over the sales declines in four of the five previous quarters.

"The good news is that router manufacturers saw their customers loosening purse strings during the fourth quarter, and that lends confidence for market recovery in 2010," said Shin Umeda, Vice President at Dell'Oro Group. "With the worst of the economic downturn behind us, we expect that service providers will start more network projects resulting in meaningful market growth this year," added Umeda.

4Q09 Worldwide Service Provider Router Leaders
Total Market	4Q09	Q/Q Growth
MFG Revenue ($ billion)	$2.0	15 %

Vendor	Rank	Q/Q Growth
Cisco Systems	1	11 %
Juniper Networks	2	17 %
Alcatel-Lucent	3	17 %
Huawei	4	22 %
Ericsson	5	39 %

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, 100Mbps Ethernet, 1000Mbps Ethernet, and 10 Gbps Ethernet) for router technologies. To purchase this report, please contact Emily Kendall, call +1.650.622.9400 x223 or email [email protected].

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