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4. Cisco vs Aruba
As with the switches, Cisco 2009, reached 1.6 billion U.S. dollars in the size of the wireless LAN market share position close to the ruling, has 58% market share. Aruba ranked second, the market share of 9%. Although this gap is very large, but Aruba sales in North America very well. According to market research firm Dell'Oro Group said the second quarter of this year, Aruba's penetration in the United States than Cisco. Aruba in higher education, healthcare and other vertical market business was particularly strong penetration in more than a Cisco 802.11n. In the past four quarters, Aruba's market share from 8.7% to 11.9%, while Cisco's market share dropped from 60.7 to 54.8%. Cisco Aruba is not the only beneficiaries of falling market share,but, Aruba undoubtedly played a major role.
Cisco recently introduced an entry-level 802.11g access point, it may help Cisco improve a particular market share. Cisco 802.11n deployment in efforts to reduce the pain.
At the same time, Aruba has been working with major OEM manufacturers such as Dell partners and through acquisitions to expand into new markets.
5. Cisco vs Polycom
Cisco is very interested in the video. Cisco's own study reported that video to consumers worldwide by 2014 will account for 91% of IP traffic. This will drive the back end for the service provider's network switches and routers sales in order to carry all the additional traffic. In front of it? Cisco introduced for business and home telepresence virtual meeting system, and the acquisition of the Flip pocket video camera manufacturer Pure Digital and Polycom's competitors Ted, to complement the low-end corporate video conferencing product portfolio. According to market research firm Wainhouse Research, said, Ted was the market leader in video conferencing. Therefore, Cisco now has the size up to 20 billion market share of about 40%.
Polycom and can not be reconciled. It is with Cisco rival Juniper Networks and IBM jointly sell their own video conferencing system, IBM's server and storage systems, and Juniper Networks routers.
From the product perspective, Cisco and Polycom video conference room and office size, personal telepresence and video conferencing systems, associated equipment and applications, etc. are basically comparable. Cisco recently launched a family named Umi telepresence systems, used in conjunction with high-definition TV.However, this equipment is too expensive, has been criticized.
6. Cisco vs Avaya
Cisco's unified communications and collaboration is a hot target market, perhaps second only to the core routers and switches business, the most strategic market.However, in many markets Cisco has 30% market share, laptop battery,while Avaya is that the only reason to exist unified communications and collaboration. Indeed, according to market research firm Dell'Oro Group said, Avaya and Cisco in the enterprise telephony market in 2009 were ranked first and second place, the market share of 17% and 14.6%. The size of the market in 2009 is 120 billion dollars. The two companies are the early entrants to the market in terms of IP PBX and telephones were 10 years of competition.
This is the latest battlefield in the two companies is designed for enterprise collaboration and unified communications tablet. Avaya launched last month, Flare Tablet PC. This mobile / base-style tablet PC equipped with 11.6-inch touch screen, support for high-definition video. Avaya's unified communications software to organize special meetings, including high-definition video conferencing. Cisco Cius base type / Mobile Tablet PC 7-inch touch screen configuration. Also supports Cisco's unified communications software and telepresence platform. Cius and tablet PCs are used Flare Google Android operating system, so that the two products can support a large number of existing applications or easily develop applications. Flare shows that Avaya is not only his own share of the market easily give dozens of markets in the rage of a giant.
