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  • Huawei Routers Lead 2019 Global Carrier Market

    Huawei Routers Lead 2019 Global Carrier Market

    Huawei routers have once again taken top honors in the 2019 global carrier market, according to research by Omdia.

    Despite an aggressive campaign by the U.S. government to limit Huawei’s global dominance, the company continues to gain traction. Omdia’s latest report has the Chinese telecoms company maintaining the lead it first acquired in 2018.

    “Huawei routers maintained their leading position in 2019, following their rise to the top of the carrier market in 2018,” says the company. “In the backbone router market, Huawei routers have maintained their top position for three consecutive years. Moreover, this is the first time that Huawei routers took top spot in the metro router market, making Huawei routers No. 1 in the overall global carrier market as well as niche markets.”

    Huawei goes on to tout its customer-centric philosophy as one of the key contributors to its dominance, as well as its technological innovations.

    “Huawei’s growing market share has been possible because of the trust that both customers and the industry alike have in Huawei,” the company adds.

    A growing market share, perceived dominance, scalability and aggressive price points are among the many reasons the U.S. campaign against the company has met with only limited success.

  • Western Digital Explores the Router Market

    Western Digital, the company known for internal and external hard drives ( and streaming TV hardware) is now getting into the router market. And, big surprise, they are doing what they do best by including “network-attatched” storage to the higher end devices.

    The routers will include four dual-band routers and an ethernet switch. They use WD’s “FasTrack” technology to prioritize bandwidth-hogging activities like movie streaming, heavy downloading, video chats and onine gaming. Other options include partental controls and the ability to set up a guest network.

    The higher end models also include storage. It comes in either 1TB or 2TB and you can use the WD Go website to access the drive remotely. They are also working on iOS and Android apps to allow mobile accesss as well. That’s pretty cool.

    The N900 is rated for speeds of 900 Mbps, but lacks internal storage. It has 7 Gigabit sockets and two USB ports. The N750 and N600 (which max out at 750 Mbps and 600 Mbps, respectively) have four ethernet ports and two USB. Prices are as follows: $70 for the My Net Switch, $80 for the N600, $120 for the N750 and $180 for the N900.

    The big news here is that some of the routers will include storage, which can be accessed from any of the computers on the network, and even outside the network, (although I imagine this way would be much slower). The only problem is the units with storage do not go on sale until next quarter. The N900 Central will cost either $300 for 1TB of storage or $350 for the 2TB model.