Further, the company's market share in terms of combined revenues from enterprise router and service provider domains came in at 35.7%. The leading market share compares favorably with other players in the IDC report comprising Huawei, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Arista Networks ANET, and Juniper. Bottom Line The race to provide networking equipment solutions which are compatible with the emerging technologies and growing data-centric requirements is intensifying. According to reports, chip makers Intel INTC and Broadcom AVGO were also pursuing the acquisition. In this regard, it is important to note that Intel recently unveiled sturdy 100G silicon photonics transceivers to address the bandwidth requirements of emerging communications infrastructure. Further, Broadcom concluded Brocade (which directly competes with Cisco) acquisition last year in a bid to expand presence in storage area networking space.