Cabletron Increases Layer 3 Leadership With 5-Point Gain in the Modular Layer 3 Switching Market According to Dell'Oro Group
(BusinessWire, 05/18/2000 14:58)
ANDOVER, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 18, 2000--
Subsidiaries Enterasys Networks and Riverstone Networks Achieve The Number One Position In Total Modular Layer 3 Port Shipments Worldwide
Cabletron Systems (NYSE:CS) today announced that for the fifth consecutive quarter, the SmartSwitch Router is number one in market share in the rapidly growing modular Layer 3 switching market. According to the Dell'Oro Group's first quarter report, Cabletron's SmartSwitch Router gained 5.2 points from the previous quarter in worldwide modular Layer 3 ports shipped, with 37.2% of the market.
The Dell'Oro Group report, issued today, finds that the SmartSwitch Router ranks number one in market share for the period January through March, 2000 in several categories, including:
--Total worldwide ports shipped, Layer 3 modular (37.2%)
--Total North American ports shipped, Layer 3 modular (37.1%)
--10/100 Ethernet worldwide ports shipped, Layer 3 modular (39.1%)
--10/100 Ethernet North American ports shipped, Layer 3 modular (39.1%)
--Total WAN ports shipped, Layer 3 (92%)
The "Q1 Shared Hub and LAN Switch Report" ranks all manufacturers in the Layer 3 switch market, including 3Com, Cabletron Systems, Cisco Systems, Extreme Networks, Lucent Technologies and Nortel Networks. Since the majority of fixed configuration Layer 3 switches are used in enterprise wiring closets, the layer-3 chassis market is the bell-weather indicator of hardware-based routing. Cabletron's continued dominance in this category combined with its dominance in the Layer 3 WAN category further solidifies the SSR's position as the premier Layer 3 router in the industry. The Dell'Oro Group predicts that the Layer 3 market will grow to $8.4 billion by 2004.
"The Q1 2000 Dell'Oro figures validate our leadership in the Layer 3 switching market," said Piyush Patel, CEO and president of Cabletron Systems. "The combination of best of breed hardware and battle-tested software continue to meet and exceed the requirements of our service provider and enterprise customers. Moreover, the SSR platform will serve as a foundation for growth in both our service provider subsidiary, Riverstone Networks, and our enterprise-focused subsidiary, Enterasys Networks."
The SmartSwitch Router family is the industry's highest performing, most reliable line of multilayer switch routers, delivering more than 30 million packets per second (pps) of routed throughput and full-function, wire-speed IP routing and switching. The SmartSwitch Router is the only Layer 3 switching solution that offers full-function WAN connectivity completely eliminating the need for software-based routers.
About Cabletron Systems
Cabletron Systems is a holding company for four of the most innovative, customer-focused organizations in the telecommunications and networking industry:
Enterasys Networks is the only provider of total network solutions singularly focused on enterprise-class customers. By optimizing enterprise network solutions for e-business applications, and by providing global 24 x 7 service and support, Enterasys provides competitive advantage through IT infrastructure to enterprise customers.
Riverstone Networks is focused on emerging content and infrastructure service provider markets. Starting from the customer premise, ranging across the metro network, into the hosting center and across WAN backbones, Riverstone networking equipment enables an end-to-end, service-rich infrastructure. Its solutions enable service providers to provide enhanced services to customers. Riverstone is focused exclusively on service provider markets - particularly the data center needs of co-location, content hosting and ASPs, as well as the infrastructure needs of ISPs, MSOs and metro network providers.
Global Network Technology Services (GNTS) is one of the largest independent network consulting firms in the world. With consultants in more than 66 locations spanning the globe, GNTS provides network infrastructure solutions that optimize application availability and performance to enterprise and service provider clients. Aprisma Management Technologies is the leading provider of intuitive multivendor management solutions that meet the service-level requirements of enterprise and service provider customers.
Aprisma pioneered the field of intelligent network management in 1990 with the introduction of its flagship SPECTRUM software suite. With support for a rapidly growing list of over 500 products from the industry's leading network and telecommunications vendors, Aprisma is at the forefront in integrated network and service-level management.
Listed on the New York Stock Exchange for more than a decade under the symbol CS, Cabletron is an S&P 500 index company. Cabletron's web site can be reached on the Internet at www.cabletron.com.
CONTACT: Enterasys Networks
Anne Pelletier
603-337-1417
apelleti@enterasys.com
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