400 Gbps Port Shipments in the Data Center Ethernet Switch Market to Exceed 5 Million Ports in 2021, According to 650 Group
Cloud Expansion to Offset Enterprise Weakness
Portola Valley, California – January 23, 2017 – An upcoming report by 650 Group indicates that the Data Center Ethernet Switch Market will see robust growth in 25 Gbps and 100 Gbps port speeds in 2017 and 2018. The report will also indicate the 400 Gbps port speed will become an important technology starting in 2019 with port shipments of nearly 1M ports and an expected ramp to over 5M ports in 2021.
“400 Gbps is going to be the next critical speed in the data center and for Ethernet Switches after 100 Gbps. It will see tremendous demand starting in 2019 as Clouds and Telco Service Providers look towards higher speeds both within the data center and interconnecting geographically dispersed data center locations,” said Alan Weckel, Founder and Technology Analyst at 650 Group. “Semiconductor designs for data center networking systems are expected to undergo a rapid pace of advancement over the next five years in order to keep up with strong demand from the Cloud, especially Amazon, Facebook, Google, and Microsoft.”
Quarterly report related to this segment will indicate that Arista, Cisco, Juniper, and White Box vendors are the market leaders in Data Center Ethernet Switch Market for 2016 in the United States and H3C and Huawei are the market leaders in China.
About the Report
The Data Center Ethernet Switch Long-Term Forecast Report offers a market assessment with projections for the Ethernet Switches deployed in the data center environment. The report covers, Modular, Fixed, White Box, and other segmentation as well as the following port speeds: 1 Gbps, 10 Gbps, 25 Gbps, 40 Gbps, 50 Gbps, 100 Gbps, and 400 Gbps. For more information about the report, contact the sales department at 650 Group at +1 650 600 7104 or info@650group.com or www.650group.com.
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650 Group is a leading Market Intelligence Research firm for communications, data center and cloud markets. Our team has decades of research experience, has worked in the technology industry, and is actively involved in standards bodies.