From the Wires
Infonetics: IP Router/Switch Market Dips 5% in Q3; Juniper Reclaims #2 Spot in Router Segment
Nov. 27, 2012 06:04 PM
Market research firm Infonetics
Research today released excerpts from its 3rd quarter 2012 (3Q12) Service
Provider Routers and Switches report, which tracks and
analyzes IP edge router, IP core router, and carrier Ethernet switch
(CES) vendors and markets.
ANALYST NOTE
“The performance of the router/switch market roughly reflects economic
conditions, and true to form economic weakness in Europe, North America,
and Latin America drove down IP router and switch revenue in the third
quarter,” notes Michael
Howard, Infonetics
Research’s co-founder and principal analyst for carrier networks. “EMEA
posted another negative quarter amid the ongoing fiscal crisis in
Europe, and we may not see much of the usual final quarter budget flush,
as it seems just as the European Commission gets closer to economic
steadiness, more negative reports arrive.”
Howard
adds: “Although North America is showing positive economic signs,
carrier router/switch revenue is down 2% from the year-ago quarter, and
Latin America is slowing as many of the year-long projects in South
America and Mexico wind down.”
SERVICE PROVIDER ROUTER AND SWITCH MARKET HIGHLIGHTS
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In 3Q12, the global service provider router and switch market,
including IP edge and core routers and carrier Ethernet switches, is
down 5% both sequentially and from the year-ago 3rd
quarter, to just shy of $3.4 billion
-
Asia Pacific is the only region up in 3Q12 over 2Q12, albeit slightly,
built on a 31% spike from Japan
-
In the router-only segment (IP edge and core routers), Cisco
maintains its strong market share lead, but in a shakeup in the 3-way
race for the next 3 leadership positions, Juniper took back the
#2 spot from Huawei, who dropped to #4, while Alcatel-Lucent
held steady in 3rd in 3Q12
-
Cisco, Juniper, Alcatel-Lucent and Huawei
together account for 88% of total IP router revenue (edge and core) in
3Q12
REPORT SYNOPSIS
Infonetics’ quarterly service
provider routers and switches report provides worldwide, regional,
China, and Japan market share, market size, forecasts, analysis, and
trends for IP edge and core routers and carrier Ethernet switches. The
report tracks the IP edge market by application (multiservice edge, broadband
remote access server, Ethernet access transport, and Ethernet
service edge) and covers Alaxala, Alcatel-Lucent, Brocade, Ciena,
Cisco, Ericsson, Extreme, Fujitsu, Hitachi Cable, Huawei, Juniper, NEC,
Nokia Siemens, Orckit-Corrigent, Tellabs, ZTE and others. To buy
the report, contact Infonetics: http://www.infonetics.com/contact.asp.
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