Alcatel-Lucent Continues To Lead Fixed Broadband Access Market

Alcatel-Lucent Continues To Lead Fixed Broadband Access Market

According to the Dell’Oro 2Q’08 access report, Alcatel-Lucent remains the worldwide leader in DSL with 7.7 million DSL lines shipped in 2Q’08. With a cumulative market share in DSL port shipments of 39 per cent, more than three times that of its nearest competitor, and a worldwide installed base of 173 million DSL lines, Alcatel-Lucent continues to lead the fixed broadband access market.

According to Dell’Oro, Alcatel-Lucent leads the IP digital subscriber line access multiplexer (IP DSLAM) market with a 2Q’08 market share of 32 per cent. Alcatel-Lucent is also the clear leader in very high-speed DSL (VDSL) shipments, surpassing a 38 per cent market share in terms of ports shipped in 2Q'08 - again more than threefold the number of shipments of Alcatel-Lucent’s nearest competitor in this field.

Alcatel-Lucent is maintaining its regional leadership in North America, EMEA and rest of the world, while retaining its number 2 position in Asia Pacific, the report says.

“Alcatel-Lucent is seen by customers as their partner for broadband access transformation, mastering a complete view on the options and on the implementation challenges, and increasingly being appreciated for its integration capabilities,” says Luis Martinez Amago, president, fixed access activities, Alcatel-Lucent. “With one out of three fixed broadband customers around the world served through an access network provided by Alcatel-Lucent, we are committed to support our customers’ network transformation projects.”

Alcatel-Lucent’s leadership in fixed broadband access is said to be built to a large extent on the Intelligent Services Access Manager (ISAM) family, an IP access platform that supports a flexible mix of future-proof access technologies (xDSL, GPON, point-to-point fibre) and a variety of network topologies (central office as well as remote architectures).

More than 190 service providers around the world have already selected the ISAM platform. Furthermore, Alcatel-Lucent is deploying more than 85 FTTH deployments, is present in every country which is engaged in FTTH and is the vendor of choice of most of the large scale FTTH projects, the company said.