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Advanced Broadband Services in Japan are Driving a Burgeoning Market for Edge and Core Routers

Avici, Cisco, Juniper, and Redback posted strong double-digit growth in Japan

Scottsdale, Arizona – According to Synergy Research Group’s latest reports, Q4 2004 Japan Router Market Shares, Japan led the world in overall Carrier router growth. In 2004, the Japanese market for Core, Broadband Aggregation, and IP Edge Aggregation grew 60, 44, and 32 percent, respectively.

The tremendous demand for sophisticated IP Carrier Equipment pushed sequential growth rates for three vendors over 50 percent in Q4 2004. Synergy believes Alcatel, Avici, Cisco, Juniper, Nortel, Redback, and Riverstone are strategically positioned with leading Japanese carriers to continue providing them with some of the world’s most advanced IP aggregation and switching technology.

“Japanese service providers continue to lead the world in providing high-bandwidth broadband services to businesses and residential customers.” said Ray Mota, Principal Analyst at Synergy Research Group, Inc. “These advanced services are demanding tremendous bandwidth and routing requirements at the edge and core of Japan’s public networks, which in turn is driving a very lucrative market opportunity for IP Carrier Equipment vendors.”

Table 1. High-End Service Provider Router Vendor Rankings for Japan
1. Cisco
2. Juniper
3. Redback
4. Nortel
5. Avici

This 22-page report containing 12 market share tables is available for purchase at www.srgresearch.com.

Synergy Research Group, Inc. (SRG) is a market research firm, which specializes in quarterly market analysis, market share, forecasting, and strategic consulting. SRG offers a wide breadth of market research services to the equipment manufacturing, semiconductor, and financial communities. SRG can be found at www.srgresearch.com.

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