The better performance was attributed in part to continuing focus on fast-growing countries with breakthroughs in India and Brazil and expansions in Russia, Africa, the Middle East and China.
The company says it expects major advances in the US wireless broadband and cellular market following the decision earlier this year to acquire Spatial Wireless.
Tchuruk says the company is beginning to see payback from its early investments in triple play technologies and "we are now glad to see strong momentum on worldwide markets. In this domain, our recent win with SBC for Project Lightspeed also validates our technology choices in next generation IP-DSLAM and IP service routing as well as our focus on integration of complex, end to end systems."
He added that while the wireline market has been declining or has remained flat in past quarters, "we have now reached a stage where profitability is back and where prospects in future years should reflect a deep transformation of carriers' service offering and of associated network configurations."
Tchuruk says the company is comfortable with its former guidance that sales for the full year will be up in the high single digit range.
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