Service Provider Router Sales Grew 28% in Q2 2008

RENO, NV, Aug 11 (MARKET WIRE) --
Synergy Research Group (SRG) announces the availability of the Synergy Q2
2008 Enterprise and Service Provider/Switch Market Share report.

In Q2 2008, Service Provider investment continued to drive the overall
Router market. Service Provider Router sales posted its third double-digit
growth in the last five quarters. While the increasing demands of
multimedia network traffic such as video are contributing to Router sales,
Synergy believes managed services are also becoming a strong growth
driver.

Worldwide, businesses are turning to service providers for managed
services as a cost-effective alternative to maintaining and running their
own networks. Synergy believes as organizations continue to operate under
challenging economic conditions, the trend to outsource network services
to Service Providers will continue to increase.

For service providers to address this opportunity they will need to offer
competitively priced services that provide a flexible access aggregation
architecture and an efficient operation to the Enterprise. This will
require Service Providers to increase their Router investment, especially
at the edge of their networks.

The Router/Switch manufacturers that benefited most from Service Provider
investment in the quarter included Nortel, Tellabs, Cisco, Extreme,
Juniper, and Alcatel-Lucent.

Service Provider Router/Switch Vendor Sales Growth
Y-Y Q-Q
Nortel 37.4% 36.2%
Tellabs 15.7% 22.4%
Cisco 30.4% 13.2%
Extreme 75.9% 11.2%
Juniper 44.7% 7.2%
Alcatel-Lucent 6.2% 6.7%
ER/Redback 9.0% 0.5%
Foundry 29.7% -0.3%
Source: Synergy Research Group

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