The basic problem they faced was that all of their edge routers were from Juniper.
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However, while Alcatel Lucent may have not had a core routing solution till now, its edge routers are fairly well-known.
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The member forecasts suggest that Juniper Market Share in Edge Routers will trend higher than the Trefis forecast, while Routers Gross Profit Margin will trend lower.
Today, OnLive already has an integrated network with Juniper Networks EX Series Ethernet Switches, MX Series 3D Universal Edge Routers and SRX Series Services Gateways that ensure consistency, high performance, reliability and security at scale.
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While the enterprise router market will benefit most directly from expanding budgets at large companies, a recent report from Infonetics Research suggest that improvement in IT spending is permeating the service provider market (including core and edge routers) as well.
The T4000 and PTX core routers launched in 2011 have done well so far, and the new line of MX edge routers and the ACX Universal Access product family should help Juniper continue to win clients in a fast-changing environment.
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With carriers moving to higher-speed 4G networks like LTE to support the explosion of data traffic caused by the rapid adoption of cloud computing solutions and burgeoning video usage, Alcatel Lucent is looking to take advantage of the industry transition and leverage its existing base of edge routers to find an opening in the core router market.
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The company installed 63 additional Private IP edge routers for a total of 915 edge routers in 245 sites throughout 63 countries, activated more than 1, 500 kilometers (932 miles) of ultra-long-haul network across the southern part of the United Kingdom, and completed a joint fiber build in Singapore, which almost doubles the coverage of the Singapore fiber-optic network.
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Although enterprise routers remain the single largest profit driver for Cisco, we note that the service provider router segment (including both edge and core routers) does generate a combined profitability beyond the individual contribution from the enterprise segment.
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