Cisco is continuing to lead the telecom service provider router market in 2014, said Dell’Oro Group.
Alcatel Lucent took second place ranking. Juniper Networks and Huawei Technologies are in third and fourth positions, respectively.
The size of the worldwide telecom service provider router market in 2014 was nearly $10 billion.
Market growth continued to come from routers deployed in the Service Provider Edge. Routers used in mobile backhaul, especially for LTE networks, remained one of the primary drivers of revenue as service providers, especially in China, performed significant upgrades to their networks.
North America accounted for almost 40 percent of the worldwide service provider routers market in 2014.
“As operators in the region scale back Capex in the coming year, either due to completing their mobile backhaul networks, investing in NFV or SDN technologies, or in other cost-cutting initiatives, we may see a regional mix shift in 2015,” said Alam Tamboli, senior analyst at Dell’Oro Group.
