Rank 50 - Newbridge Networks Corp.

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CEO: Dinesh Dubey

Year of Start-up: 1986

Address: 11th Floor Dr Gopal Dass Bhavan, 28, Barakhamba Road,

New Delhi - 110 001

Tel: 011-373 044/45

Fax: 011-372 0343

Web Site: www.newbridge.com
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In the new avatar of Alcatel’s Carrier Internetworking
Division (CID), erstwhile Newbridge has a few big challenges ahead. Alcatel has
hardly any infrastructure as far as the data market is concerned. With the
acquisition, the division is gearing up to take on the mighty Lucent, Cisco, and
Nortel. Having entered the Indian market quite late compared to others, the
company has done well by managing to get a dominant chunk of the carrier
equipment market. In India its success was mainly due to its trusted multiplexer
family of Mainstreet and ATM switches. While its RAS won some huge ISP cases,
its DSL modems also started seeing successes as larger ISPs began rolling out
their broadband networks.

SWOT
STRENGTH

Data networking products

WEAKNESS

Loss of mindshare due to acquisition by Alcatel, which is basically into
voice

OPPORTUNITY

The carrier market, which was its focus, has just started opening up

THREAT

The number of competitors is growing

Newbridge netted a turnover of Rs 87.5 crore registering an
overall growth of 61 percent.

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Switches were supplied to a majority of the ISPs and also for
a number of telecom networks like ATM network for Army, backbone network for
GAIL, ONGC, and Tata Teleservices. There was a huge increase of 600 percent in
the RAS/RAC segment. Though there was a small drop in multiplexer sales it still
commanded the biggest market share.

Newbridge Networks designed, manufactured, marketed and serviced wide area
networking solutions for service providers in more than 100 countries. Their
customers included world’s 350 largest telecommunications service providers.