Dell'Oro continues to use its magic number generator when it comes to analyzing markets. Huawei overtook ALU in market share and revenue two years ago, and is likely at par with Juniper. Huawei continues to take market share from all the others.
Let's pretend they do not exist. Click your heels together three times and say"There's no place called China. There's no place called China, There's no place called China."
Wishing and hoping and dreaming will not make it so. ALU is no longer leader in DSL and continues to play the fantasy game in routers.
Stefan: I think you're agreeing with me, which is good. It is better than the usual justification of such outlandish claims that "the Chinese always lie so we cut their reported numbers in half."
I think NSN, Ericsson and Huawei will lead in wireless. The thing I wish would happen is that these organizations would learn to adapt and compete. Ericsson does well with its services and its "build, deploy, operate model." Huawei gives the customer what they want. They listen to the customer and do not act arrogantly and are not massively overstaffed with overpaid personnel.
Alcatel and Lucent were both doing poorly in the market. They figured that if they merged that the market would be distracted. How's that strategy working out for them?
Let's face it, the bias is rampant in every form and shape. In 2009, Huawei grew 18% over 2008. Let me add the LR caveat that "Huawei's numbers are not yet audited so we can't really trust them". But compared to its peers of Ericsson, ALU, and NSN, it grew net/net 28% to 36% since its peers shrank anywhere from 10% to 18% in the same time period. So if 2010 plays out the same way 2004 to 2009 has, then the distance between Huawei and Ericsson will be a fuzzy line and the distance between Huawei and ALU/NSN will be considerable. The game is over, regardless of what ALU and others claim.
ALU's final hopes are LTE and routers. LTE is clearly going to slow down from the hype and no huge contracts are forthcoming in 2010 that can be a game changers for ALU. On the router side, ALU has to muscle Cisco and Juniper on the "high end" and compete against Huawei Euro for Euro on the low/med-end products and operators. Once again, no easy task.
The macro trend is clear, there will only be Ericsson and Huawei in wireless, each commanding 40% of the market, while the rest fight for the rest. In wireline, Huawei will continue to dominate, with ALU a strong contender, but with a steady erosion of market share.
So Fiber Lord, statistics can lie because people put those statistics together.
there is no way to confirm this statement utill they tell the truth, isn't it? and what is your ground this statement is not true? we all want to hear.
Mountainwest: I am not certain what it is exactly that you are taking exception to. If you ask Dell'Oro analysts why their reported numbers are different than the ones audited by KPMG the analysts will say pretty much what I just wrote, that the Chinese always lie so you cut them in half.
Now, if you're asking why Dell'Oro feels that half is the right discount to be applied to the numbers that Chinese vendors have reported, I think you'll have to ask them.
But, Huawei is present everywhere, including now North America. Their customers China Mobile and China Telecom are so much bigger than any other service provider in the world in either the wireless or wireline space, Huawei is being exposed to design problems well in advance of the other vendors.
These vendors remind me of the Caliph of Baghdad, who when told of the approaching Mongol army of Hulugu said that no one would dare attack him as he had enough soldiers to bail out the oceans. The mongols trampled him to death.
You would have thought that the demise of the arrogant Nortel, ("we're Canadian we do everything better"), would have woken up Alcatel-Lucent.
Mountainwest: It is hard for me to understand what your point is the way you phrase things. Huawei was mentioned by me in my first comment because they are bigger than ALU and I think the same size as Juniper, yet the original article was written as if they did not exist. Why did Dell'Oro leave them out of their analysis? I would look up the definition of "shill" if I were you.
Huawei is not in the context of this article. Since you brought it up, you probably the best one to check with Dell'Oro to find out why.
Huawei is benefit from the Hugh Chinese market mainly because of the Chinese protectionism policy, there is no doubt about it. But saying those Chinese service providers are "so much bigger than any other service provider in the world in either the wireless or wireline space", it may be a little bit exaggerate, unless they are lying when filling the SEC document, but it is not their expertise to lower the revenue number of course.
The Mongol story is very touching, just wondering where the Mongol is now? otherwise it may be a good lesson sent over to the Senator to discuss.
For the falling of Nortel, you may give or they may take too much credit for it.
Fiber Lord: This is a very specific comparison Dell'Oro is making - IP/MPLS edge routing - like the Quidway NE80 or NE5000. Whether Huawei is bigger than ALU or not in this space is the issue. Don't bring in DSLAMs, optical, wireless, etc. and muddy the discussion. That is a topic that we can discuss on a different thread, and really has no relevance to this article. As an example, just because Juniper's edge routing market share is greater than Ericsson's is not automatic cause to assume Juniper is a larger company than Ericsson.
So, before you dismiss the report as hogwash, please clarify this. Is your contention that Huawei's edge routing revenue exceeds ALU and Juniper? Where do you think their revenue stands? It would be interesting to see that figure. Let's ignore those "bigoted analysts" who halve the numbers provided by Huawei.
If you want to compare telecom companies, then you can talk of Ericsson and NSN. But in the edge router space, Ericsson just blends with the noise, despite some early success with Redback (in the pre-acquisition, maybe even pre-burst-bubble period).
-desi
PS. One of you British types with the classical Latin education should come up with a term for pre-bubble burst, like antediluvian.
Desi: The NE5000E and NE80E are Core routers, comparing well to the CRS-1 and the 12000 XR, they are not edge routers, although the NE80 is an edge router.
To fill you in, the 4Q09 revenue for IP MPLS routers from Huawei was north of $500 Million and ALU in its 4Q09 PR said its IP business was $429 Million and Juniper's was alittle less than $570 M.
I give you that there is difficulty directly comparing numbers, but let's make sure we treat all vendors the same. Firstly, the Chinese government will not be buying service providers routers, the service providers will. If we bring in Chinese government involvement lets talk about federal sales by the other vendors as well, and if the thought is that the service providers are nurtured by the Chinese government lets keep in mind that that is standard practice in most countries where all of these vendors sell, and remember the American broadband stimulus.
The goal of my first posting was to point out that the analyst community seems to have learned nothing from the RHK fiasco. Hyping fantasy does not make it reality.
My other pet peeve is the hyping of the economic viability of FTTH by the analyst community as well. That rant will have to wait for another time.
Dell'Oro continues to use its magic number generator when it comes to analyzing markets. Huawei overtook ALU in market share and revenue two years ago, and is likely at par with Juniper. Huawei continues to take market share from all the others.
Let's pretend they do not exist. Click your heels together three times and say"There's no place called China. There's no place called China, There's no place called China."
Wishing and hoping and dreaming will not make it so. ALU is no longer leader in DSL and continues to play the fantasy game in routers.