MIke, Alcatel Reaffirmed by Dell'Oro as Worldwide DSL Market
Leader
Paris - August 31th, 2000 - Alcatel (Paris: CGEP.PA and NYSE: ALA) today announced
that new research by Dell'Oro Group has reaffirmed the company's huge worldwide lead
in the ADSL market. Alcatel's ADSL market share as measured by line shipments into
central offices during the second quarter of 2000 increased to 54.2%, more than three
times that of its nearest competitor. Alcatel has shipped more ADSL lines than all other
suppliers combined since volume shipments began in 1998, according to Dell'Oro data.
"In the second quarter of 2000, ADSL continued to be the DSL technology
of choice, representing 76% of all DSL lines shipped," said Willem Verbiest,
vice president responsible for Alcatel's DSL business. "ADSL continues to grow at
the expense of SDSL, and Alcatel is clearly the market and technology
leader in that space."
Moreover, Alcatel's cumulative market share increased ten percentage points over the
same period last year to 54%, while the share of its nearest competitor declined eleven
percentage points to only 13%.
Overall Alcatel shipped more than one million ADSL lines in the second quarter, bringing the
total for the year-to-date to 1.8 million. In June of this year Alcatel up-rated its forecast for
total DSL shipments in 2000 to 5 million, and these latest market figures put the company on
target to achieve that goal.
"The challenge for Alcatel in aggressively growing shipments in the ADSL
market has become one of supply, not demand." said Pearse Flynn, president
of Alcatel's carrier networking group. "Our order book is huge, and our efforts
are shifting so that we can manage our supply chain for the benefit of
our many ADSL customers world-wide, in the face of an industry wide
components shortage. These figures prove that we can do just that."
Alcatel's market share is fuelled by sales to the world's largest and most successful
network operators, most at the beginning of aggressive and large-scale ADSL rollouts. In
North America, SBC Communications, Verizon, Bell South, Bell Canada and New Edge
Networks are in the vanguard of ADSL deployment. There are an estimated 130 million local
copper pairs connecting homes to the telephone network in North America, and each one
is potentially a DSL connection.
The picture in Europe is as positive. Alcatel's high profile European customers include
France Telecom; KPN of the Netherlands; Telefonica of Spain; Telecom Italia; Belgacom;
Swisscom; Telekom Austria. In the UK, BT launched its initial broadband portfolio to service
providers, corporates and other licensed operators on June 29 this year and yesterday
launched its entry-level broadband offering - BT IPStream 500 - using Alcatel's ADSL
modem technology. BT's rollout currently covers 35% of UK households, equating to 7.3
million homes and over 1 million businesses.
Kingston Communications, a competitive service provider in the UK market, is currently
offering one of the most advanced ADSL-based services in the world. Customers have the
option of subscribing to 55 channels of high-quality broadcast digital television, on-demand
movies, fast always-on Internet browsing, email and telephony. Kingston's aggressive
roll-out plans will move up a gear on the advent of local loop unbundling in Europe.
In Asia Pacific major customers include Singapore Telecom; Telstra of Australia; Shanghai
PTA; Hong-Kong Telecom. Hanaro Telecom of Korea is Alcatel's second largest ADSL
customer world-wide. South America is also a burgeoning market for ADSL, and last
quarter Alcatel shipped to customers in Brazil, Mexico, Argentina and Chile.
Mr. Flynn added: "The textbooks say that when you have more than double
the market share of your nearest competitor in a tornado market, you own
that market. Alcatel is the 'A' in ADSL."
About Alcatel DSL
Alcatel is the world's leading supplier of DSL solutions, helping service providers
everywhere deploy an expanded range of revenue producing offerings and applications
such as high speed Internet access, voice over DSL, and video services. Alcatel's DSL
solutions are available on a variety of service platforms, including the Alcatel 7300 and
7350 ASAM; the Litespan NGDLC; and environmentally hardened DSLAM packages
optimized for remote terminal deployment, the Alcatel RAM (Remote Access Multiplexer)
and mini-RAM. This complete set of deployment options gives service providers the
flexibility to bring DSL service to all potential subscribers in their service areas, regardless
of network topology. A unified element management solution, AMS (Access Management
System), manages voice and data services for the Litespan and the ASAM product family.
The Alcatel 46020 Network Manager, an integrated scalable network management solution,
seamlessly manages these products at the network and service layers. Alcatel's DSL
technology is also offered in an advanced range of customer premises equipment, the
Alcatel Speed Touch" family of DSL modems, routers, and integrated access devices
supporting multi-line voice and data service over a single telephone access line. For more
information on Alcatel's DSL solutions, visit alcateldsl.com
About Alcatel
Alcatel builds next generation networks, delivering integrated end-to-end voice and data
networking solutions to established and new carriers, as well as enterprises and
consumers worldwide. With 120,000 employees and sales of EURO 23 billion in 1999,
Alcatel operates in more than 130 countries.
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