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Ethernet Switch Sales Flat, But 40 Gbps Sales Take Off

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

takyon writes:

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 Friday December 11 2015, @12:40PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 11 2015, @12:40PM (#274940)

    If your house is 1000 meters across and have a need to bulk transfer at ssd speeds at that distance it'd be faster to just get into your gold plated Bentley and drive your storage to the other side of the compound.