Infonetics Research the latest research and analysis results showed that in the fourth quarter of 2012, the world's top four vendors were still dominant in routers and carrier Ethernet switch segment. Cisco, Huawei firmly occupied the throne of the first and second, while Alcatel-Lucent rose to third place and Juniper relegated to fourth.
In the competition of router’s market share, Cisco is still in the leading position. At the same time, Huawei grows so fast that in 2012 it took the second-highest market share of 17.7%, an increase of 2.5% over the previous year. Alcatel-Lucent and Cisco's market share increased by 0.8% and 0.4% respectively, while Juniper declined by 2.2%. The four giants Account for 89% of the market share in IP router market.
