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Alcatel On The Move
By Greg Galitzine
Paris-based telecom equipment giant Alcatel is moving up in the rankings, at least insofar as the global IP Edge Router Market is concerned. In recently released research from Ovum-RHK, Alcatel comes in with 11 percent in Q2 05, and increase of 3 percent over last quarter.
The overall market, according to the research, grew by seven percent quarter-over-quarter, an indication that as service providers begin transforming their networks to accommodate carrier-class business VPNs and triple play applications such as IPTV, VoIP, and high-speed Internet, the edge is where money is being spent.
“Ovum-RHK believes that Alcatel will have firmly established itself as the number three edge router vendor by the end of 2005,” said Mark Seery, Ovum-RHK Vice President, IP Service Infrastructure. “Driven by new spending in the areas of IPTV, VPLS, and IP VPNs, a window of opportunity has been opened in the market place for equipment vendors that can address both Ethernet aggregation and high capacity Ethernet/IP service switching in one solution set.”
“We are very pleased with the growth in our business lines,” said Basil Alwan, President of Alcatel’s IP activities. “We are now benefiting from the intersection of demand for IPTV and carrier-class business services based on IP and Ethernet — trends we anticipated and for which we optimized our platforms.”
Ovum-RHK data point out that Alcatel took 19 percent of the European IP Edge router market up from 5% in Q1. The increase is attributable to network deployments with customers such as France Telecom, Telenet in Belgium, and TeliaSonera in Scandinavia. IP progress in Europe will be further boosted by recent wins with BT 21CN, Be and Exponential-e in the UK, Portugal Telecom, and Auna in Spain. Alcatel’s IP portfolio already has more than 70 customers spanning 30 countries including SBC, TELUS and SaskTel in North America, as well as China Telecom and China Netcom who have deployed the solution in more than 20 provinces.
Alcatel has also announced that it has selected Convedia Corporation’s family of Media Servers as a key media processing element for Alcatel's media resource product suite. Alcatel has agreed to market and resell Convedia’s technology as an integral component of its media resource products.
According to Mark Peterson, Vice President of Business Development for Alcatel's wireline communication activities in North America, "Convedia's media servers were a natural fit to improve the underlying media processing capabilities of our media resource product suite. We're looking forward to utilizing Convedia's Media Servers in a number of our largest IP telephony infrastructure opportunities."
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