Worldwide sales of service provider and enterprise telecom and datacom equipment hit US$139bn last year, up 13% from 2006, and will grow to US$174bn in 2011, according to a new report from Infonetics Research.

The report also found that the five-year compound annual growth rates for all segments tracked range from slightly negative to strong double digits between 2007 and 2011, with IPTV and IP video equipment leading the growth, followed by service provider VoIP and IMS equipment.

“While service provider wireless and FMC equipment and enterprise routers, switches, and wireless LAN equipment make up the largest portions of revenue, the increases we’re seeing in the overall telecom and datacom equipment market are being fueled by the transformation to IP packet networks, as evidenced by strong growth in the IPTV and service provider VoIP and IMS segments,” said Jeff Wilson, Principal Analyst at Infonetics Research.

About one third of all last year's equipment revenue came from Europe and the Middle East and Africa (EMEA), while China and India are expected to drive a "significant jump" in carrier CapEx this year due to network construction projects combined with currency appreciation against the US dollar. Cisco was found to lead the overall worldwide telecom/datacom network equipment market last year, followed by Alcatel-Lucent and Ericsson.

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