Wireless Packet Core (WPC) Market Grew 24% in the Third Quarter of 2011

Dell'Oro Group, the trusted source for market information about the networking and telecommunications industries, announced today that Wireless Packet Core market earnings grew 24% over the last year while the third quarter of 2011, as service provider demand for wireless data subscriber management remained robust. Ericsson maintained its market share lead in earnings, followed by Huawei and Cisco.

"Over 100 service providers have committed to launching LTE (Long Term Evolution, latest standard in the mobile network technology) networks.  With over one-third of these having commercially launched, the Evolved Packet Core equipment supporting these 4G networks is now 5% of the overall packet core market," said Chris DePuy , Analyst at Dell'Oro Group.  "The EPC segment provides an possibility for new vendors to enter this high-growth market, which we expect to grow over 200% in 2012."

The report shows that overall wireless packet core earnings reached over $740 million in the third quarter of 2011.  WPC equipment is data-carrying and data-managing equipment used by service providers to support the wireless device access to data and advanced services.  Dell'Oro Group has expanded its quarterly coverage to include vendor earnings and licenses for the EPC category, which includes Mobility Management Entity, Packet Data Node Gateway, and Serving Gateway equipment.

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