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posted by martyb on Thursday December 10 2015, @09:51PM   Printer-friendly
from the fast-bits dept.

Sales of Ethernet switches remain flat, but the market for 40 gigabit per second switches is increasing:

The total Q3 Ethernet switch market revenue was $6.1 billion, just two per cent higher than for the same quarter in 2014, and the enterprise share slipped from Q2 to Q3 by 7.2 per cent.

North America was the best place to be selling switches in 2015, with IDC saying is rose 8.2 per cent year-on-year. The Asia-Pac rose 3.9 per cent, China by 3.6 per cent, and Western Europe was nearly flat at 0.8 per cent.

[...] A bright spot for vendors is that customers seem to be drinking the 40 Gbps kool-aid. While 10 Gbps port shipments rose by 27.4 per cent, prices are falling, so the segment value dipped by 1.6 per cent. The 40 Gbps segment, on the other hand, rose 41.4 per cent year-on-year to a value of $644 million.

More info about 25 Gigabit Ethernet (and 50), and 100 Gigabit Ethernet (and 40).


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 10 2015, @10:02PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 10 2015, @10:02PM (#274664)

    SFP+ ?

  • (Score: 2) by RamiK on Thursday December 10 2015, @10:08PM

    by RamiK (1813) on Thursday December 10 2015, @10:08PM (#274666)

    Great example of the general confusion seeing as SPF+ is 16Gbps while the article discusses 40Gbps.

    * 10Gbps in practice but I'm not getting into that...

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    • (Score: 2) by Hyperturtle on Thursday December 10 2015, @10:24PM

      by Hyperturtle (2824) on Thursday December 10 2015, @10:24PM (#274674)

      SFP+ I have seen is 5gbps; sometimes 10gbps, but if so it's usually proprietary to replace genuine stacking cables between switches in a stack or virtual chassis.

      And I do not endorse its use; it seems pretty shoddy to me. Perhaps its just been the cables and vendors I've seen pushed regarding its use; it could be there are quality components out there and I have been on cheap projects.

      if SFP+ means 16mbps token ring, I wouldn't be surprised because it seems to mean everything faster than 1gbps.

      • (Score: 2) by RamiK on Thursday December 10 2015, @11:00PM

        by RamiK (1813) on Thursday December 10 2015, @11:00PM (#274684)

        And I do not endorse its use; it seems pretty shoddy to me. Perhaps...

        No no you were right the first time. It's a mess of property lock-ins, sub(non-existing)standard performance and price gauging.

        It won't be safe to use until you'd be able to go into Walmart, ask for a fiber extension wire or a fiber LAN switch, and get what you want without having to say another word. That is, if you need to google anything to do with connectors or fiber materials, types and widths, you might be doing it right, but the market is doing it wrong so you better stir clear.

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      • (Score: 2) by bob_super on Friday December 11 2015, @01:06AM

        by bob_super (1357) on Friday December 11 2015, @01:06AM (#274736)

        SFP goes at least to 4G
        SFP+ is 10G
        QSFP is 40G - 4 colors
        SFP25/28 (not quite sure the exact name) is 25G/28G
        CXP is for 100G (10x10G)
        QSFP28 is for 100G (4x25G), and you use 4 of them for 400G...
        Not sure if they will call the new ones for 50GigE SFP56...