AlcaLu's Router Run Continues

Alcatel-Lucent (NYSE: ALU - message board) might have had a disappointing earnings report, but market researchers say the company had a heck of a second quarter on the product front.

Specifically, Ovum RHK Inc. tallied the company's IP/MPLS revenues -- via the TiMetra acquisition, essentially -- at $274 million, up 60 percent from the previous year. And the Dell'Oro Group Group recently came to a similar finding, reporting Alcatel had passed Juniper Networks Inc. (Nasdaq: JNPR - message board) for second place in the service provider edge router market, with both companies trailing Cisco Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: CSCO - message board), of course.

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