OneAccess today said it will take on Cisco with the launch of its mid-range router for telecom service providers.
Cisco is dominating the service provider router market with nearly twice the market share of the second ranked vendor – Juniper Networks. Cisco has lost 3 points in telecom service provider router market share in 2013.
According to Dell’Oro Group, the number two vendor Juniper Networks recorded double-digit revenue growth stemming from exceptionally strong demand in North America.Alcatel-Lucent is in the third position and it maintained share as strong growth in Europe and Asia offset a decline in North America.
Also read: Cisco telecom service provider router market share dips by 3 points in 2013, says Dell’Oro
OneAccess said its network access solutions are designed to address the challenges faced by telecom operators, Cloud and managed service providers as they gradually migrate both their networks and services to virtualized and all-IP environments.
In the branch-office router market, OneAccess’ express focus on operators and CSPs has already resulted in EMEA unit shipments surpassing those of Cisco.
“Cisco’s network access equipment and its distributor-based go-to-market model are designed for the enterprise market, which has a very different set of requirements to those of operators and CSPs,” said Pravin Mirchandani, CMO, OneAccess.
In 2013, service provider router and switch revenue — including IP edge and core routers and carrier Ethernet switches (CES) rose 2 percent to $14.5 billion.
In Q4 2013 carrier router/switch revenue decreased 4 percent from the same period a year ago.
Also read: Cisco, ahead of Huawei, leads router and switch revenue market in 2013, says Infonetics
OneAccess claims that it has redressed the imbalance in the branch-office router market by working collaboratively with its operator customers to purpose-build a range of solutions that meet their needs.
It’s extending this model to offer this customer segment faster and more flexible solutions, with fiercely competitive price performance ratios, that can be deployed in the central and high capacity Cloud environments.
The One25XX series offers layer 2 and layer 3 convergence, enabling operators and CSPs to deliver conventional Carrier Ethernet and IP services in one box. It also replaces multiple processors with a single multi-core CPU, enabling the device to be reduced in size and increasing mean time between failure.
Dell’Oro Group earlier estimated that the routers and switches for mobile backhaul are projected to grow at a five percent compounded annual growth rate and to comprise nearly 35 percent of total mobile backhaul market revenue by 2018. The primary growth driver will be the shift to a packet-based backhaul network as operators roll out LTE and LTE-advanced.
Baburajan K
