{"id":91087,"date":"1999-12-31T00:42:00","date_gmt":"1999-12-30T13:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smartoffice.com.au\/idc-4g-rollout-impacts-aussie-router-market\/"},"modified":"1999-12-31T00:42:00","modified_gmt":"1999-12-30T13:42:00","slug":"idc-4g-rollout-impacts-aussie-router-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.strixdevelopment.net\/smartoffice\/1999\/12\/31\/idc-4g-rollout-impacts-aussie-router-market\/","title":{"rendered":"IDC: 4G Rollout Impacts Aussie Router Market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The International Data Corporation (IDC) has found that the wired router market in Australia recorded a 31 per cent year-on-year revenue decline in the 2016 second quarter amid the completion of service provider network upgrades meeting 4G-LTE demand.<font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\">While the decline was driven by decreased service provider spend, the IDC stated that it would have been more pronounced were it not for significant first-half spending on high-end service provider routers (classified by the IDC as having a list price greater than US$20,000) to remedy unscheduled network outages.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the IDC found that enterprise sales were stagnant, with growth tempered in the first half by the federal election, with projects being put on hold.<\/p>\n<p>Cisco leads the wired router space in terms of revenue, with Juniper and Nokia competing for the runner-up position.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The dramatic decline does not necessarily indicate an irreversible market contraction, but the completion of core network upgrades,&#8221; IDC market analyst Ahmar Karimullah commented.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We fully expect to see the router market rebound heading towards 2020 with the deployment of 5G by all the mobile carriers, an inevitable less-constrained NBN and signaled network investment by the likes of Telstra.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Elections always see projects put on hold, so we expect a buoyant second half of the year in the enterprise space as spending catches up.&#8221;<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The International Data Corporation (IDC) has found that the wired router market in Australia recorded a 31 per cent year-on-year revenue decline in the 2016 second quarter amid the completion of service provider network upgrades meeting 4G-LTE demand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":155,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-archive","category-hardware","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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