Cisco, Nortel optical router sales slip
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OTTAWA, May 16 (Reuters) - Communication equipment giants
Cisco Systems Inc. and Nortel Networks Corp.
suffered sliding sales for optical network routers in
the first quarter, while new entrants Juniper Networks
and Unisphere Networks made gains, according to research
released on Wednesday.
The report from telecoms market researcher Dell'Oro group
showed that sales of OC-3 to OC-12 routers, which can transmit
data up to speeds of between 1 and 9 gigabits per second, fell
41 percent to $544 million in the first quarter over the fourth
quarter amid a widespread downturn in demand.
Cisco, the world's largest maker of data networking
equipment, held its lead spot with sales of $440 million, but
those revenues dropped 48 percent from $853 in the fourth
quarter. Cisco may be repositioning its products for the OC-48
market, said Dell'Oro.
Nortel, the world's No. 1 vendor of telecommunications
equipment, was ranked fourth with sales of $25.2 million, down
36 percent from fourth-quarter revenues of $39 million.
Juniper Networks, in second place, posted the most
impressive gains. Its router sales surged 194 percent to $47
million from $16 million. Unisphere Networks, ranked third, saw
its sales increase 61 percent to $30 million from $19 million.
Unisphere is the network router business of Siemens AG,
the German electronics and engineering giant.
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