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.

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  • Corriene

    Can anyone say Shasta? MPE… Nortel could have done so much better if they hadn’t have made such a mess of their Service Edge Router business.

  • many

    Corriene, I agree. Three points about Shasta;

    1) Shasta was a good idea, but it had a limited life span because they did not evolve the software
    2) Nortel could not evolve the software because it was poorly written and they did not understand it, having serious quality and support problems from the get-go.
    3) Nortel did not do their homework before they bought the company and their entrenched management drove anyone who knew anything about Shasta away, making doing anything about items 1 or 2 orders of magnitude harder.

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