According to the latest Dell’Oro Group research, the worldwide router market dropped for the first time in six quarters in Q2 2004. Dell’Oro says the market dropped by 2% in the second quarter.
While the overall market — which includes T-1 access boxes to 10 Gigabit backbone routers — was down, the high-end segment grew by 13% in the second quarter, Dell’Oro says. Sales of Internet core backbone routers from vendors such as Cisco, Juniper and Avici Systems were strong, with Cisco and Avici both seeing double-digit growth in sales (16% for Cisco and a whopping 79% jump in sales for Avici). Juniper saw revenue from 10G routers grow by 7%. The overall market for 10G routers was $260 million last quarter.
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