Chart: Networking Technology Companies - Gross Profit Margins

Gross profit margins in the Networking sector ranged from 78.7% (AKAM) down to 13.5% (AVNX) with the median for the group at 46.0%.

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			Total	Gross	Gross
		Quarter	Revenue	Profit	Profit
Ticker	Company	Ending	($mm)	($mm)	Margin (%)
ADCT	ADC Telecommunications Inc.	01/27/06	$280.20	$85.60
30.5%
AKAM	Akamai Technologies Inc.	03/31/06	$90.83	$71.51
78.7%
ALA	Alcatel	12/31/05	$4,829.17	$1703.30
35.3%
AV	Avaya Inc.	03/31/06	$1,238.00	$578.00
46.7%
AVNX	Avanex Corp.	12/31/05	$36.13	$4.88
13.5%
BRCM	Broadcom Corp.	03/31/06	$900.65	$466.30
51.8%
CIEN	CIENA Corp.	01/31/06	$120.43	$50.46
41.9%
COMS	3Com Corporation	03/03/06	$177.56	$72.41
40.8%
CSCO	Cisco Systems Inc.	01/28/06	$6,628.00	$4466.00
67.4%
ERICY	LM Ericsson Telephone Co.	03/31/06	$5,026.65	$2175.74
43.3%
EXTR	Extreme Networks Inc.	04/02/06	$85.45	$46.21
54.1%
FDRY	Foundry Networks, Inc.	03/31/06	$114.00	$69.56
61.0%
GLW	Corning Inc.	03/31/06	$1,262.00	$573.00
45.4%
JDSU	JDSU	12/31/05	$312.90	$110.30
35.3%
JNPR	Juniper Networks, Inc	03/31/06	$566.71	$381.77
67.4%
LU	Lucent Technologies Inc.	03/31/06	$2,138.00	$926.00
43.3%
MRVL	Marvell Technology Group Ltd.	01/31/06	$489.02	$268.35
54.9%
NT	Nortel Networks Corp.	12/31/05	$2,997.00	$1182.00
39.4%
TLAB	Tellabs Inc.	03/31/06	$514.70	$242.30
47.1%
VSHI	VitalStream Holdings Inc.	12/31/05	$4.67	$1.97
42.1%

Data: Capital IQ

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