Cisco Rules…Router and Switch Markets

By Mark Evans | Published: November 21, 2007

This is not a surprise…but Cisco continues to dominate the worldwide router and switch market.

According to Synergy Group Research, Cisco had 66.1% of the $3.3-billion router market in Q3. The router market grew 21% year-over-year, with service provider routers accounting for $2.4-billion of sales (+29%). Juniper gained 1.7% market share in the carrier ethernet market, while Cisco fell by 0.6% and Alcatel-Lucent lost 3.7%.

In terms of revenues in the overall service provider router segment, Nortel saw revenue jump 80% in the third quarter of 2007 over the second quarter of 2007. That said, Synergy said Nortel’s sales were only $11.6-million compared with Cisco’s $1.4-billion.

For more, check out IT Management and Synergy’s release release.