Alcatel-Lucent has announced that it has gained market share in the Service Provider Router segment for the fifth consecutive quarter, according to Q3 2009 data from Dell’Oro. The data has revealed that Alcatel-Lucent has been increasing its worldwide market share by four percentage points year-over-year. In addition, it has gained 4.8 percentage points in the fastest-growing sub-segment, Edge Routers, growing itself to 20.5% in the entire global market.
“Alcatel-Lucent continues to lead the industry in IP router innovation, from silicon to software, and is focussed on helping our customers to monetize their network assets. We are putting our application enablement vision and related High Leverage Network architecture into action and the growth in market share reflects this strong data traffic growth in wireless networks is driving mobile backhaul upgrades as well as packet core evolution and Alcatel-Lucent has the right technologies and solutions to help wireless carriers deal with the challenges and also get ready for LTE,” said Basil Alwan, President of Alcatel-Lucent’s IP activities.
Alcatel-Lucent’s service router portfolio has been at the forefront of the move to converged IP/MPLS networks that support residential, business and mobile broadband services. Since entering the market, more than 300 customers in 100+ countries around the world have selected the Alcatel-Lucent IP/MPLS portfolio as key elements of their IP transformation, including 24 of the world’s top 30 carriers.
In addition, Alcatel-Lucent’s success in the service provider router space was highlighted in a recent technology research report, “Data Networking & Wireline Equipment – Inside the Routing Markets”, from Barclays Capital.
