According to recently published reports by Dell’Oro Group, 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.
Share of Manufacturers' Revenue From Wireline Telecommunications Equipment Sold to Service Providers
| |
2007 | 2006 |
|---|---|---|
| Alcatel-Lucent | 29% | 24% |
| Cisco | 34% | 29% |
| Ericsson | 4% | 4% |
| Huawei | 14% | 10% |
| Nokia Siemens Networks | 8% | 6% |
| Nortel | 11% | 13% |
Posted to the site on 9th April 2008
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