BOSTON, March 27 – Nortel Networks ascended to the top position in the global telecommunications equipment market in 2000 with year-over-year growth of 41.6 percent, according to research company Gartner Dataquest.
    "Nortel achievement was built upon a successful strategy of targeting key sectors both through organic growth and well-managed acquisitions," said Dean Eyers, group vice president for Gartner Dataquest's worldwide Telecommunications and Networking group. "It has balanced leading-edge technology skills and executed especially well in the high-growth optical market."
    Gartner Dataquest's findings were based on its analysis of the combined worldwide service provider and enterprise telecommunications equipment markets.