Alcatel-Lucent increased its IP router market share by four percent

According to Dell'Oro, Alcatel-Lucent increased its IP router worldwide market share by four percentage points year-over-year (3Q09 vs 3Q08).

Alcatel-Lucent says that its technology leadership has continued in 2009, with portfolio enhancements include the 100 Gigabit Ethernet service routing interface for the edge and metro, a converged IP/Optical backbone transformation solution that slashes CAPEX and OPEX in the network core, application-awareness for cloud-based Enterprise WAN services, a massively scalable wireless Internet gateway platform for the LTE evolved packet core and new service router platforms for small carriers and enterprise & vertical markets.

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.

In Dell'Oro Group's Routers Report 3Q09, the firm stated: "Alcatel-Lucent reported strong performance in 3Q09. It was the only SP Edge Router vendor to record Q/Q and Y/Y increases. Despite the global recession, Alcatel-Lucent performed well during the first three quarters of 2009, increasing its year-to-date revenue share to 20%, well above its 15% share for full-year 2008. We attribute Alcatel-Lucent's success to the following factors: expanding customer base, regional balance and broad product line."

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. "Alcatel-Lucent has been the clear rising star in the carrier edge router market at the moment. Alcatel originally entered the market through its acquisition of TiMetra in 2003, and has since gained significant traction with the flagship product (now called 7750). Alcatel-Lucent has been on a steady upward ramp in the edge routing market since 2004, growing from 0% share to now nearly 20% share. Beginning in 2010, Alcatel will look to grow its share in the core space with the introduction of its 100 Gbps line card."