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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: 1) by Kushan on Thursday December 10 2015, @10:26PM
Hardly surprising, gigabit has been around for long enough that no doubt the market is saturated and there's just not enough push on 10GigE or above for anything other than datacentres. If you want the market to grow, start pushing the technology down to offices and businesses. We'd have installed 10GigE equipment in our offices if an equivalent switch wasn't literally 20x the price.
(Score: 3, Touché) by Hyperturtle on Thursday December 10 2015, @10:33PM
Comcast has a 2gb offering, and the little * in the pricing indicates that customers are on the hook for paying for the 10gige fiber switch to connect to them, and to provide a way to take that 2gbps delivered on 10gig and to break it up into a way they can use it, because two 1gigs are not provided. You have to have at least 2 10gig ports.
If you want a firewall, it has to have a 10gig connection on it or you need an intermediary switch with multiple 10gig connections, and it has to be managed, so that you can take Comcast's 10gig in, and then break that to 10gig out to perhaps port channelled 2gb gigabit over two 1gb links to a device that can then firewall that 2gb uplink, and then take that 2gb and pass it through to the internal network -- either with a 1gb dmz and a 1gb internal or a 2gb internal or 2gb dmz or whatever you can pull.
It is very costly to get the service and the service is just a fraction of that cost.
10gb hardware has to come down in price before its feasible, and this is for residential and small businesses! Either you invest in a bunch of no name or off-brand hardware and accept that there will be few resources online to research in case of problems, hard to reach support, or whatever, or you drop the money on name brand high end stuff in case it inevitably breaks and Comcast blames your network and you need to call the vendor to resolve it when someone who can do networks isn't around to help you.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 10 2015, @11:11PM
I know that there are places where 10+ GigE is important, but most offices and businesses don't have a use for it that justifies the price. If you have 16 PCs running Excel and Word, you don't need data-center-level networking, and you sure don't need to pay for it.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Friday December 11 2015, @12:44AM
It's down to getting the hardware support for it.
802.11ac Wi-Fi rollout has been pretty swift. It's supported by high-end smartphones, laptops, and my $100 Chromebook. Theoretically, the most expensive 802.11ac devices packed with antennae could be capable of transmitting 6.77 Gbps. 1-2 Gbps is more realistic, and more than 1 Gbps Ethernet can transfer.
Google Fiber is promising 10 Gbps home and business connections "in the future". While that is more likely to be used by several users with 10/100/1000 devices, such a rollout would be a reason to think about adding 10 GigE to more laptops and workstations.
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