RAD takes 20% slice of VoDSL in W Europe

Sales statistics show RAD Data Communications has taken 20% of the Western European market for voice over digital subscriber line (VoDSL) integrated access devices. According to an October 2001 Gartner Dataquest report, which did not provide individual vendor market share statistics, a total of 2800 voice-enabled DSL CPE units were to have been deployed in Western Europe in calendar year 2001. RAD's sales statistics indicate that 550 of these - one-fifth of all such units currently deployed in Western Europe - were RAD's LA-140 advanced ATM VoDSL integrated access devices.

"This is a market that is still in its preliminary stages, and RAD intends to maintain or even surpass its current share once the market matures", states Anat Balshan, ATM Integrated Access Device Product Manager at RAD Data Communications.

"We at RAD are proud to have become the de facto market leader among manufacturers of VoDSL IADs", Balshan continues.

"Both in terms of sales and in terms of test results, the LA-140 is setting the industry standard".

RAD's IAD product line has undergone extensive lab and field testing with leading DSLAM vendors such as Alcatel, Nokia, Ericsson, Siemens, Lucent, ADC, NEC, Marconi, ECI, Cisco and Zhone, and voice gateway suppliers including Jetstream, Tdsoft, Cirpack and Alcatel.

"Seamless interoperability among IADs, DSLAMs and voice gateways is the key to the successful deployment of VoDSL networks", Balshan explains, "and a major factor in the LA-140's dominance in the market".

According to the Gartner Dataquest report, the Western European VoDSL market "is poised to become more substantial in 2002 because more carriers are expected to start offering services".

Indeed, while in 2000 an earlier Gartner Dataquest survey reported that 65% of operators indicated that they would be offering VoDSL at some time in the future, this latest survey reported that this figure had now jumped to more than 80% of respondents.

VoDSL offers carriers and business enterprises distinct benefits.

Carriers, for example, can slash their deployment and provisioning costs by offering local loop access over a unified physical plant using a single protocol.

In addition, they can offer differentiated services, such as traditional voice together with next-generation data services, increasing revenues and profitability.

With convergence extending to the network core, it is possible to rationalise their entire network architecture.