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26 of the top 30 telecommunications service providers
worldwide now using Alcatel-Lucent’s IP/MPLS Service Router portfolio
Paris, February 23, 2010 — Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE:
ALU) today announced that it has once again outperformed its rivals as the only
major IP router vendor to report revenue growth and gain worldwide market
share, according to full year 2009 data from the Dell ‘Oro Group. Rounding out
the year with its best quarter of revenue in the history of its IP/MPLS service
router portfolio, Alcatel-Lucent gained almost five percentage points of market
share in 2009, solidifying its number two position in the “edge” segment with
over 20 percent market share. Alcatel-Lucent was also the only one of the three
leading router vendors to gain share in the overall service provider router
market, with an increase of almost four percentage points in 2009.
In an excerpt from Dell'Oro Group’s Routers Report 4Q09, the firm stated:
“For the full year 2009, Alcatel-Lucent achieved a significant milestone by
moving up to second place in the vendor rankings of the service provider Edge
Router market. This was the first time in ten years that a vendor other
than Juniper occupied the number-two position. Alcatel-Lucent’s share
increased five percentage points in 2009 to 20%...Alcatel-Lucent’s ongoing
success stems from a broad product line, a large customer base, and extensive
global presence—all of which have helped the vendor build a consistent revenue
stream and win new business.”
“Dell Oro’s report for 2009 reinforces the market success and momentum that
we started back in 2004 and that continues to this day,” said Basil Alwan,
president of Alcatel-Lucent’s IP Activities and head of carrier portfolio
strategy. “The service provider edge is where operators define and deliver
services for residential, mobile and business customers, making it a key focus
for capital investment, despite the tough economic environment throughout 2009.
This is the market opportunity that Alcatel-Lucent’s service router portfolio
is ideally suited to address, and the reason we’ve taken another five points of
market share in the last year.”
Alcatel-Lucent’s 3rd generation IP/MPLS service routers allow operators to
offer differentiated, revenue generating services including residential IPTV,
carrier Ethernet services for business customers and LTE-ready mobile backhaul
and packet core. The mobile backhaul segment represented one of the strongest
growth areas in 2009 as operators upgraded their networks to cope with the
rapid increase in data traffic from smartphones and other 3G devices.
Alcatel-Lucent is now delivering LTE-ready mobile backhaul solutions to more
than 50 wireline, wireless and MSO customers around the world.
Alcatel-Lucent expanded its IP technology and product leadership in 2009,
with several new innovations, including: 100 Gigabit Ethernet with full edge
services like IPTV; a converged backbone transformation solution based on
IP/Optical integration; enhancements to its market-leading LTE-ready mobile
backhaul portfolio; and a unique approach to the wireless Evolved Packet Core
(EPC), which is in more than 15 customer trials or commercial deployments
worldwide and is a central element of the company’s end-to-end LTE
solution.
Alcatel-Lucent announced IP/MPLS service router contracts with 29 new
customers during 2009, including new wins with Tier 1 carriers and cable MSOs
in all regions. The Alcatel-Lucent Service Router portfolio is now deployed at
26 of the top 30 carriers worldwide and more than 300 service provider networks
in over 100 countries have been deployed since 2004. To read the full
Dell Oro report go to:  http://www.delloro.com/services_routers.htm
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