Cisco’s Strong Performance Buoys VPN and Firewall Market

June 15, 2004 - Things are looking very good in the overall networking sector, it is certain that, but in the world VPN and firewall sales particularly strong boost performance, but does not small part of the Ciscos strong 2004 first quarter results.

That only half of the story is, however: One prominent researcher said VPN and firewall revenues will continue to exceed the market in 2004 and beyond.

According to the British researcher Infonetics Research predicted that the first quarter of the global scope of the firewall and VPN income (both hardware and software products) 733 million US dollars, an increase of nearly 11 percent from the previous quarter. Infonetics expects market will grow 12% (823 million US dollars), from the first quarter of 2005.

In this regard, the bond principal analyst Jeff Wilson said that the Cisco-led approach, a single hand driving the overall market to double-digit growth - even though most vendors Despite the statistics Ford single digit.

Several factors have contributed to this growth. "Electrical appliances in the Middle East price zone [$ 1,500 to $ 10,000] and application security gateways drive growth in 2004 and beyond. because there are a large number of site-to-site VPN and broadband deployment, the firewall upgrade to the latest technology, and SSL VPN deployment of a new generation of Enterprise remote access, "Wilson said.

Infonetics said, VPN and firewall equipment of the worlds most VPN and firewall income, and overall software revenue and application security net Commissioner of revenue currently accounts for a small part. By 2007, however, the company Infonetics expected, application security gateways, will account for a greater share of tax revenue , and the small dip in the software and electrical products revenue.

Infonetics found that the company, Cisco is the worlds largest revenue market share leader both hardware and software-related VPN and firewall income, and firewall specialist checkpoints, control of the second largest chunks of the global market.

In other places, Infonetics said, the company Juniper Networks, Nokia, Nortel, Symantec, WatchGuard is that the powerful second-tier players income of the market share even though some of these vendors - for example, juniper was a result of SSL VPN application of safety net Commissioner part - huge market share many different categories.

- Stephen swoyer