Huawei bumped Juniper Networks from second place in the service provider core router market, according to a recent report.
Despite strong second quarters this year by both Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. and Juniper Networks Inc. (NYSE: JNPR) , Huawei leaped into second-place among vendors behind Cisco Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: CSCO), according to Dell'Oro Group's recent Service Provider Core Router report.
"Demand for Huawei core routers grew over 70% year-over-year in the quarter," said Alam Tamboli, senior analyst at Dell'Oro Group . "Customers in China and parts of Europe, particularly Russia, contributed to the massive increase. We think the pop up in Europe is short-term. However, higher sales levels in China are longer-term. For example, China Telecom is performing a significant data center interconnect project that is driving much of the core router revenue growth for Huawei.
"Though Juniper was displaced from the second-placed ranking, it also had a strong quarter with core router revenue growing almost 10 percent year-over-year."
Overall, the worldwide service provider core router market continued its growth spurt by posting a sixth consecutive quarter of increasing revenue.
— Mike Robuck, Editor, Telco Transformation