Cisco Dominant Among Service Providers

January 25, 2005 - as a provider of enterprise networking solutions, Cisco enjoy unique, 2004, in order to consolidate its control of the majority of the enterprises competition in a market.

In the carrier space, and Cisco continue to use Excel although the long-term prospects for dominance it is not impossible that pratfall or two.

According to Synergy Research, Cisco is the leading provider of carrier-specific solution 2004 through the first three quarters, control more than three-quarters core IP routing market nearly six times more than runner-up - juniper network, the gap 12.9% market share . According to Jeff ogle, principal analyst for carrier infrastructure with analysis of the current consultant, Ciscos new CRS - 1 can be conducive to expanding this Lead. "Although it is too early for the newly introduced CRS - 1 to affect market share numbers, it will obviously have a significant impact on competition Ciscos landscape and show genuine commitment to its own this space, as well as as its commitment to the service provider market, "wrote ogle.

CRS backing of a what is the best juniper, avici and other vendors have to offer ogle said: It has 92 tbps of raw materials throughput, trouncing core products from Juniper (1.2tbps) and avici (5.6tbps).

Cisco and the advantages of portfolio, it has caused some problems, In "br> enterprise space, the 7600 can be configured, 10000, and 12000 Series products appealed to the service providers, content ogle, they noted, these devices offer , feature-rich platform, there is sufficient overlap to meet a lot of difficult configuration, which requires that the operator.

In other places, ogle the development of other technologies that trend, indicating a good Cisco. "More Good News, Cisco is the technology industry to packet-based technology, which is currently being implementation of the largest and most conservative The carrier, plays a direct click "Ciscos traditional strength in routing and switching," he wrote . "These packet-based services, service providers will need to promote growth, the infrastructure to a new level, and in the incremental only way. " Similarly, as service providers have begun to address enterprise management or escrow services, Cisco is poised to profit from this trend. "If the carrier will be forging close relations with the enterprise network, it is justified to Cisco equipment in its backbone," ogle said.

Therefore, juniper wood and avici Cisco is the only real competitors, In "br> core routing space, ogle the closing. In this regard, the networking giant confronted with two noteworthy opponents. "Cisco has been losing market share over In the past few years, Juniper Networks, the only competitor has been proved ability to distinguish beat Cisco and gain market share, in a number of areas, " ogle argue that, he said," Juniper Networks may actually be more than [Cisco] in some specific geographic regions. " In the coming days, ogle, Cisco should expect to face competition at home from a new new generation of composite, multi-vendor solutions.

"Ciscos competitors are united against. Lucent, in the long time Challenger, in the service provider market, joined forces with the Juniper Networks cooperation.

This relationship goes beyond a simple distributor relationship Lucent Technologies and Juniper are integrating their product lines under a common management system and the Joint developing countries, signaling and traffic load interface to unite Layer 2 and Layer three traffic in the integrated core, "he says. : "threat Cisco is the new Lucent - Junipers partnership suddenly makes Junipers routers a more attractive The force added that the installation of a large number of Lucent more switch.

Similarly, Nortel Networks and avici also join 2,200 yuan a strategic partnership agreement in early 2004. "In addition to a simple reselling agreement, Nortel Networks integrated management of the core routing platforms avici According to the Network Management System "ogle said. "This higher level of management integration is an essential service provider networks and large enterprises " - Stephen s woyer

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