Yes, this article is a couple months old, but I’m sure a lot of my friends and contacts who work for telecom carriers don’t follow news items like this particularly closely (you know who you are) but would still be interested in the results of the Infonetics study quoted in the article.
As the article notes (and here’s the link to Sean Buckley’s FierceTelecom article one more time, just for good measure, before I quote it):
While the top four router/switching vendors Cisco (Nasdaq: CSCO), Huawei, Alcatel-Lucent (NYSE: ALU) and Juniper Networks (NYSE: JNPR) maintained their dominant market positions in 2013, fourth-quarter carrier router/switch revenue declined 4 percent from the same period a year ago.
Nothing much to see here, though revenue is slightly down. Cisco, Huawei, Alcatel-Lucent, and Juniper still dominate.
Carrier router/switch data may not keep us yawning for long, though, as Infonetics analyst Michael Howard says “change is in the air.” You can read more about that here, in the Infonetics press release about the report featured in the FierceTelecom article.
Yeah, not my sexiest post, but I had this article squirreled away in hopes I’d get the blog up and running so I could share it. Indeed, you can trace my interest in switch vendors back to my years working with ILECs. If you’ve read this far, perhaps that’s where you developed your interest, too.
Telecom and Tech.com 