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Australia defies trend for network sales slide, shovels cash at Cisco
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/07/09/idc_australia_data_q1_2018/
The router market is stagnating worldwide, but nobody's told Australian buyers.
Analyst firm IDC, which in June gave us the drear news that global router sales fell 1.4 per cent between Q1 2017 and Q1 2018, reckons Australian customers like their packet-processing big iron: its Asia-Pacific Quarterly Router Tracker released late last week pegged growth in Australia at an astonishing 25.5 per cent year-on-year.