Service providers across the globe appear to be coming out of recession syndrome and increasing investment in procuring telecom gear particularly the broadband infrastructure, reveals a new research from Dell’Oro.

According to the research, revenues for broadband infrastructure equipment market rose 10% in Q4 2009 on a sequential basis and 18% rise on a yearly basis. The market under consideration includes  EPON and GPON OLTs, VDSL DSLAMs, and DOCSIS 3.0 CMTS.

"Upgrade projects driven by competition, increasing Internet traffic, government incentives, and operators' desire to enable new revenue-generating services are all having a positive impact on equipment demand," says Tam Dell'Oro, President of Dell'Oro Group. "High bandwidth VDSL, PON and Cable DOCSIS 3.0 access concentrator equipment are being deployed for these upgrades. As a result, each of these products had moderate to strong year-over-year revenue growth in the fourth quarter," he adds.

Huawei is seen the global leader for EPON and GPON equipment sales helped mainly by demand from domestic Chinese market.

Alcatel-Lucent is at the top for VDSL solutions. The vendor is ranked second for GPON helped by supplies to North American operators AT&T as well as Verizon.

Arris scored over Cisco for CMTS solution sales.