Cisco is continuing to lead the telecom service provider routers and switches market in the third quarter of 2013. While Alcatel-Lucent regains second place, Juniper holds third position, Huawei drops to fourth rank, said Infonetics Research.
Cisco has 38 percent market share in the telecom service provider routers and switches market in the third quarter of 2013.
Infonetics said the global carrier router and switch market (IP edge and core routers and carrier Ethernet switches) rose 7 percent to $3.6 billion in Q3 from the year-ago 3rd quarter.
Sequential dips by Huawei and ZTE pulled Asia Pacific down in Q3, but Infonetics looks for the usual up-down pattern in the region to continue, giving rise to a strong Q4.
Though Europe/EMEA declined 10 percent in Q3 from Q2, European service providers are expected to carry out a decent budget flush in the 4th quarter.
Michael Howard, principal analyst for carrier networks and co-founder of Infonetics Research, said that all three main IP router/switch categories – edge routers, core routers, and carrier Ethernet switches (CES) – are up from a year ago.
Infonetics forecasts the service provider router and switch market to grow at a 7 percent CAGR from 2012 to 2017 to reach $20.2 billion.
