But while high-end routers showed strong revenue and shipment growth, LAN switches posted strong growth in terms of shipments but showed only slight revenue improvement. LAN switch revenues actually declined by 5.8 percent in the first quarter, IDC said.
Routers are way up in revenues, propelled by high-end sales to service providers.
Layer 3 LAN port shipments were up 71 percent from the same quarter a year ago. Leading in the sector is Cisco, which captured 47 percent of revenues last quarter through recently acquired ArrowPoint. Cisco was followed by Nortel Networks' new acquisition, Alteon Web Systems, which took 27 percent of the market. Extreme Networks was next with 16 percent, followed by Foundry Networks with 9 percent. All rights reserved.