Service Providers Worldwide Spend Over $36 Billion Fortifying Wireline Networks in 2007
Alcatel-Lucent and Cisco Capture Majority of Contract Awards
Redwood City, Calif. – April 9, 2008 –
According to recently published reports by Dell’Oro Group,
the trusted source for market information about
the networking and telecommunications industries,
telecom service providers worldwide snapped up
more than $36 billion of equipment to enhance
their wireline networks in 2007, up more than
10 percent over 2006 levels. Sales to service providers
for wireline infrastructure have not approached this level since the year 2000.
The largest increases in capex spend was on optical transport and routers,
followed distantly by IP voice equipment
(such as media gateways and softswitches), and carrier Ethernet switches.
Spending on broadband access and multiservice switching declined.
Cisco captured the bulk of spend on routers while Alcatel-Lucent
captured spend on optical transport. Nokia Siemens and Nortel
captured the majority of spend on IP voice equipment.
Leading manufacturer share of revenue from sales of wireline
telecommunications equipment to service providers is reflected in the table below.
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Share of Manufacturers' Revenue From Wireline Telecommunications Equipment Sold to Service Providers (%)
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2007 |
2006 |
| Alcatel-Lucent |
29 |
24 |
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| Cisco |
34 |
29 |
| Ericsson |
4 |
4 |
| Huawei |
14 |
10 |
| Nokia Siemens |
8 |
6 |
| Nortel |
11 |
13 |
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Telecommunications equipment from the following markets were
included in this assessment: Access, Carrier Ethernet Switch and Router,
Carrier IP Telephony, Multiservice WAN Switch, and Optical Transport.
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