May 2018

Ethernet Switch Market Revenue Surges Y/Y in 1Q’18, According to 650 Group 100 Gbps Ports More than Double Driven by the Cloud and Data Center Strength

Portola Valley, California – May 23, 2018 – A newly released report by 650 Group, a leading Market Intelligence Research firm for communications, data center and cloud markets, indicates that the Ethernet Switch Market grew over 10% Y/Y on strong campus and data center growth in 1Q18 to slightly below… Read More »Ethernet Switch Market Revenue Surges Y/Y in 1Q’18, According to 650 Group 100 Gbps Ports More than Double Driven by the Cloud and Data Center Strength

Wi-Fi NOW Conference: Mojo, Mist, Google, Quantenna

We attended the Wi-Fi NOW conference in Redwood City, CA this week and attended some interesting presentations.  We are writing about our observations and notes from the Google, Quantenna, Mist Systems and Mojo Networks presentations.   Google Station presentation.  “GOOGLE STATION: PUBLIC WI-FI TO CONNECT THE NEXT BILLION INTERNET USERS.” … Read More »Wi-Fi NOW Conference: Mojo, Mist, Google, Quantenna

NBASE-T Webinar Themes

Tomorrow, 650 Group’s Alan Weckel will be a featured speaker on the NBASE-T hosted webinar, entitled “Growth of NBASE-T, Market Trends and Forecast.”  In this webinar, we will review Ethernet trends that related not only to Campus Switch ports, but also WLAN, computing and other devices.  The NBASE-T ecosystem continues… Read More »NBASE-T Webinar Themes

Aerohive A3 – Enhanced Network Access Control (ENAC) System Hitting the Market

Earlier this year, Aerohive issued a press release about its A3 software system.  A3 is what we categorize as an Enhanced Network Access Control (ENAC) system; we calculate market share statistics on this market in our Security report series.  The company is now getting ready to bring the product to… Read More »Aerohive A3 – Enhanced Network Access Control (ENAC) System Hitting the Market

​NetApp Industry Analyst Meeting announcements – Google and more flash

There were two main announcements, a new relationship with Google Cloud Platform and a new flash device – the AFF A800. Also, in our interviews with NetApp, we learned about the future of Fibre Channel at the hyperscalers. Google.  Google Cloud Platform now integrates NetApp Cloud Volumes as a drop-down… Read More »​NetApp Industry Analyst Meeting announcements – Google and more flash

Arista Networks – Campus Core – A Little Bit of Campus, A Little Bit of Data Center

Today Arista announced its entry into the campus market launching several products in the core and aggregation layer for campus switching. For years there has always been a blurry line on how one defines campus core, partially driven by the utility of the Cat 6500 installed base. But this has… Read More »Arista Networks – Campus Core – A Little Bit of Campus, A Little Bit of Data Center