Research and Markets: 2006 Research Available on Cisco, ECI Telecom, Tellabs and Other IP Services Platforms Products.

DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets has announced the addition of IP Services Platforms product research to their offerings. These reports, written by an objective 3rd party, contain insight and analysis of the product or service strengths and weaknesses, lists buying criteria and how the product or service fares in each category, and a comprehensive table of product or service metrics and specifications. These reports are useful for purchasers who need to evaluate products or as a source of competitive intelligence for vendors.

The following reports are now available:

Cisco 10008 Edge Switch Router (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c45840)

Cisco remains the market leader in the overall service provider edge sector, but Juniper, Redback, and Alcatel have all made headway with their newer platforms, and represent a continuing threat to Cisco in 2006 and beyond.

ECI Telecom ST200 Service Edge Router (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reportinfo.asp?r=356166)

ECI Telecom, with the acquisition of Laurel Networks in 2005, gained a critical enabling solution for triple play services. While the ST series offers a number of differentiators, ECI still needs to win customer/market traction in this sector.

Juniper Networks E-series (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reportinfo.asp?r=355550)

Juniper's E-series offers service providers a solid IP service delivery platform with a few feature-set enhancers. However, the E-series still comes up short in scalability and density, and thus, faces competitive challenges from rivals.

Juniper Networks E320 (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reportinfo.asp?r=356165)

Juniper's E320, which was recently deployed by FASTWEB to support triple play services, is the company's flagship service provider edge platform, which offers dramatically higher throughput and performance capabilities over its predecessor.

Redback SmartEdge Service Gateway (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reportinfo.asp?r=355554)

Redback continues to add new hardware and software enhancements to the SmartEdge Service Gateway platform, generating new benefits such as a four-fold increase in performance, giving Redback product and marketing differentiators to leverage.

Redback SMS 10000 (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reportinfo.asp?r=356161)

Redback's SMS 10000 features respectable metrics in areas such as density and scalability, but Redback could integrate more security features to defend its traditional SMS customer base better and show more progress in SMS-to-SE transitions.

Tellabs 8860 Multi-Service Router (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reportinfo.asp?r=356164)

In the IP service market, Tellabs is on the outside looking in, with limited market and customer traction in this sector. It remains to be seen how long Tellabs will stay committed to a product line which generates only 4% of its revenues.

Companies Mentioned:

Cisco

ECI Telecom

Juniper

Redback

Tellabs