Bill, since you cited a dated Dell Oro report, I thought you might like to see a more recent one, circa yesterday.
techstocks.com
USR is outselling Ascend RA Servers. USR is the principal RAS supplier to AOL, Compuserve, Netcom, IBM, MCI, and most of the other major ISPs. As a matter of fact, soon after the AT&T/Lucent breakup last year, didn't AT&T spurn Lucent Rremote access servers in favor of US Robotics? Wait, let me go check my archives .... .... ...., yes here it is:
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SKOKIE, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 8, 1996--U.S. Robotics today announced that AT&T has selected U.S. Robotics as a key vendor for dial access for three of the company's business and consumer services.
Under the multi-million dollar, multi-year contract, U.S. Robotics will supply AT&T with remote access ports to support the AT&T Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) and WorldNet (sm) services.
U.S. Robotics is a leader in high-speed dial access, supplying technology for the world's largest Internet service providers and online services. The company's Total Control Enterprise Network Hub processes millions of calls every day into the Internet, global networks and corporate LANs. U.S. Robotics is positioned for further growth in these markets as AT&T and other global providers expand their network infrastructures to bring the power of the Internet and remote information access to everyone.
"We selected U.S. Robotics because the company and its products have demonstrated its ability to meet the needs of AT&T as we expand the reach of our network and services," said Bill Leighton, AT&T director of computer communications, product engineering and development.
U.S. Robotics' chassis is very flexible and provides support to a variety of applications on one platform. The Total Control Enterprise Network Hub provides high density with an architecture that allows for future expansion with a mission-critical design for component redundancy, hot-swap, security and management capabilities for continuous cost-effective service.
"AT&T's market leadership and direction will contribute to our ability to bring to market the best products and services in the industry," said Casey Cowell, U.S. Robotics chairman, president and CEO. "By utilizing our Enterprise Network Hub, AT&T will have the flexibility to adapt to an ever-changing telecommunications environment. We plan to work together closely on new technology developments for the product, particularly ATM."
AT&T, a leading provider of ATM services, and U.S. Robotics will work together on an ATM interface strategy for the Total Control Enterprise Network Hub. AT&T has also been a contributor to U.S. Robotics' recently-announced high-density solution.
"We think of the Total Control Enterprise Network Hub as a technology shelf," said Ross Manire, senior vice president and general manager of U.S. Robotics' Corporate/Systems Division. "We plan for customers to install it and interchange technologies as their needs evolve -- its modular design and high capacity have given our customers incredible growth and investment protection by allowing them to simply add modules when they want to support new technologies."
According to the Dell'Oro Group, U.S. Robotics has a 55 percent share of the worldwide access concentrator market, well ahead of the closest competitor and reflecting its position as a supplier to both the largest information service providers in the world and a wide variety of corporations, universities and other organizations who have standardized on the product since its initial shipment in mid-1993.
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BTW, as an aside, someone previously seemed to imply that you were CIO Enterprise Architecture for AT&T. I detect that you only use ATT.Worldnet as your personal ISP. Could you clarify? |
