Cisco, Brocade and Juniper are top scorers in enterprise n/ws, as per Infonetics

Market research firm Infonetics Research has ranked Cisco, Brocade and Juniper as top three enterprise networking vendors bases on multiple performance parameters. The 8 vendors analyzed in the 25-page report include Alcatel-Lucent, Avaya, Brocade, Cisco, HP, Juniper, NEC and Siemens Enterprise. Infonetics has rated the top 500 enterprise networking vendors based on market share, share momentum, financial performance, and solutions mix. Infonetics has put that list on its website for a limited time period. The scorecard list is available at free of charge at http://www.infonetics.com/download.asp?id=36. “More than 100 vendors are vying for a piece of the $50 billion enterprise networking and communication infrastructure market, but only 8 have a diverse product offering and consistently capture more than 1% market share,” observes Matthias Machowinski, directing analyst for enterprise networks and video at Infonetics Research and lead author of the report. “Our enterprise scorecard helps buyers make accurate comparisons among vendors based on commonly-used purchase criteria and identify which vendors are most suitable for their organization’s specific requirements.“ Machowinski adds: “Cisco leads this field by a wide margin, claiming a perfect score in 6 out of the 7 criteria that we measure in our enterprise vendor scorecard. But the battle for 2nd place remains heav...