Cisco's Pains Juniper and HP's gains

Cisco's share of worldwide switching revenue dropped 5.8 percentage points to 68.5 percent in the first quarter of 2011 from a year earlier, according to a May report from Dell'Oro Group, a Redwood City, California-based researcher. Hewlett- Packard gained switching share in that period.

In global router sales, Cisco lost 6.4 percentage points to 54.2 percent of the market, while Juniper gained, Dell'Oro said.