Huawei is the Top Network Equipment Vendor for 2020

Dell'Oro Group, in their quarterly report, concluded that Huawei is the largest network equipment vendor for last year. The market analyst covers a vast swath of the market, such as broadband, microwave and optical networks, mobile core and RAN and carrier Ethernet switch. The results are for Q4 2020. Furthermore, there was a growth of 7%, which was the best since 2011.

The Standings of Individual Network Equipment Vendor

The top 7 suppliers have more than 80% revenue share in the quarter reported. Among the top vendors, Samsung had the least revenue share, at 2%. Incidentally, this was down 1% from 2019.

In at sixth place was Ciena. The European vendor had a 3% revenue share, same as last year. Next up was Cisco, with exactly double the market share than that of Ciena. Cisco's share was down 1% from last year as well; from 7% to 6%.

ZTE was the fourth largest network equipment vendor on the list, with one-tenth of the total revenue share. Interestingly, its share was up 1% from last year. Nokia and Ericsson, the two largest equipment vendors from Europe, had 15% share of the revenue each. While the former's share was down by a percent, the latter's rose by the same figure.

At the top sits Huawei, with almost a third of total global revenue. It also managed to grow by the largest amount, growing 3% to acquire 31% of total market. Huawei has managed to sit at the top for two years in a row, which is interesting given their current situation amidst all the geopolitical tensions.

Together, these 7 have a hold on 82% of the total global revenue.

All the figures are sourced from Dell'Oro Group.