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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).
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 10 2015, @10:47PM
10 Mbps... I'm still fighting to get the office upgraded to gigabit. Small office - under 10 users, most of which wouldn't know a switch if I hit them in the head with one. Although I did get gigabit rolled out for my home network about a year ago.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 11 2015, @04:09PM
I doubt it really benefits most people in typical small offices - not so many deal with large files (videos, VMs etc). But if it would really benefit them, your office snack/latte budgets could probably buy a switch. 53 bucks for a dlink 16 port gigabit switch. Less than 20 bucks for an 8 port switch. So if only a few will chip in get the 8 port switch and leave the rest on the old switch.
From my experience most short run cabling supports gigabit in practice, at least well enough to be faster than 100Mbps and definitely faster than 10Mbps.