More: Cisco Introduces Product for Internet Service Provider Market
San Jose, California, Feb. 23 (Bloomberg) -- Cisco Systems
Inc. said it would ship a larger version of its remote access
concentrator, giving it a more-competitive offering for the
products that let large phone companies and Internet service
providers route incoming calls.
The No. 1 networking-equipment maker said it is shipping the
new product, which will let customers connect six times more
incoming lines than its existing access concentrator.
The new product could put pressure on 3Com Corp. and Ascend
Communications Inc., which like Cisco are competing for a share
of the so-called carrier market. That market is expected to grow
substantially this year as telecommunication companies expand
their networks to handle more Internet-related traffic.
''This box will put them squarely in the high end of the
carrier market,'' said Brad Baldwin, an analyst with
International Data Corp.
The remote access products Cisco previously sold to large
carriers lagged its competitors in size and technology, Baldwin
said. According to the latest report from Dataquest, 3Com now
controls the largest revenue share of the market for those
products, with about 33 percent, followed by Ascend and Cisco.
The market for all remote access products, including those
sold to small businesses, corporate network managers and phone
companies, was $2.64 billion in 1997.
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