MZA Analysts Put Avaya on Top of the WorldMZA Analysts Put Avaya on Top of the World

Thanks to the Nortel acquisition, Avaya has a narrow lead over Cisco in the overall worldwide market, the analyst firm reports.

The most recent market numbers (2Q10) from the UK analyst firm MZA, as reporting on this UK website, find Avaya holding a small but noteworthy edge over Cisco in the global PBX market (thanks Sheila!) MZA shows Avaya at 15% share worldwide with its acquisition of Nortel Enterprise, compared with Cisco's 12%.

However, Cisco handily outpaces Avaya in the global market for IP extensions, winning 33% of the market, compared with 21% for Avaya.

According to this website's report, MZA paints a bleak picture of the market in Western Europe, and yet also shows encouraging signs, reporting a 16% Y/Y growth in the quarter ending with June.

The global market was coming off a very difficult 2009, as described by Melanie Turek on this recent No Jitter blog summarizing Frost & Sullivan findings.

MZA's global market share figures are close to the picture painted by Allan Sulkin in this No Jitter post. Allan's 1Q figures likewise show Avaya with a narrow lead in the global market.