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CAMPBELL, California, February 26, 2008—Worldwide sales of service provider routers and switches totaled $11.2 billion in 2007, up 16% from 2006, an all-time high for routers and switches, which have been steadily climbing since the nadir in 2003, says Infonetics Research in its quarterly report, Service Provider Routers and Switches.
“The common drivers pushing the carrier router and switch market upward are 1) the ongoing migration to next generation networks based on IP, MPLS, and Ethernet, and 2) growth in consumer broadband, corporate, IP video, and mobile data traffic,” said Michael Howard, principal analyst and co-founder of Infonetics. ”Of course, the traffic jams are being caused by user applications, like music and video downloading, YouTube clips (even corporations are using YouTube for marketing videos), online news, and social networks like MySpace. As an example, I recently watched video feeds of the Amgen Tour of California bicycle race for a few hours at a time, something not possible a year ago.”
Other highlights from the report:
- Cisco’s router and switch sales are up 20% year-over-year, Juniper’s are up 25%
- Content providers are offering new on-demand and broadband video services that eat up more bandwidth into the home
- Residential and commercial developers are trying to outdo the competition with better and more high tech offerings
- Municipalities around the world, most notably in Amsterdam, Stockholm, and Dubai, are upgrading their networks to Ethernet FTTH to keep and attract new jobs in an age where access to digital information is paramount
Infonetics’ report provides market share, market size, forecasts, and port details for IP core and edge routers, carrier Ethernet switches (CES), enterprise-class Ethernet switches, 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, Avici, Ciena, Cisco, ECI, Ericsson, Extreme, Foundry, Fujitsu, Hitachi Cable, Huawei, Juniper, NEC, Nokia Siemens, Nortel, Redback, Tellabs, and others.
Download report highlights at www.infonetics.com. For sales, contact Larry Howard, vice president, at larry@infonetics.com or +1 (408) 583-3335.
Infonetics Research (www.infonetics.com) is an international market research and consulting firm specializing in data networking and telecom. Services include market share and forecasting, end-user survey research, service provider survey research and capex analysis.
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