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BOSTON, Massachusetts, October 8, 2007—After dropping 8% in the first quarter of 2007, the Ethernet switch market bounced back in the second quarter, posting a 4% gain in worldwide revenue to reach $4.2 billion, and a 6% gain in port shipments, according to Infonetics Research’s latest Ethernet and Application Switches report.
Annual worldwide fixed and chassis Ethernet switch sales are forecast to grow from $15.9 billion to $18.3 billion between 2006 and 2010, the report shows.
“The Ethernet switch market continues to exceed expectations and is on track for another year of double-digit port growth, and mid single-digit revenue growth as buyers continue to favor switches with greater intelligence, performance, and advanced features. ProCurve achieved a major milestone this quarter, shipping 5 million ports, and Cisco is on track to pass the $11 billion revenue mark in 2007,” said Matthias Machowinski, directing analyst at Infonetics Research.
Other highlights from the report:
- Worldwide Ethernet switch sales are up 12% from a year ago in 2Q06
- 10G layer 3 managed fixed configuration switch revenue more than tripled in 2Q07 and port shipments more than doubled; Cisco began shipping this quarter
- 57% of worldwide Ethernet switch sales come from fixed switches, 43% from chassis
- PoE accounts for 14% of all Ethernet switch port shipments in 2Q07
- Cisco continues to lead in worldwide Ethernet switch revenue market share with 67%; followed by ProCurve and then 3Com/H3C; NETGEAR is 2nd for port share
- F5 leads in worldwide application switch revenue, unit, and port market share
- Almost 1/2 of all Ethernet switch revenue comes from North America in 2Q07, about 1/3 comes from EMEA, and a 1/5 comes from Asia Pacific; the Asia Pacific and EMEA regions will gain share at the expense of North America over the next few years
Infonetics’ switch report tracks application switches and Ethernet switches broken out by fixed configuration (unmanaged vs. managed with a layer 2 vs. layer 3 split), chassis, and PoE. Forecasts are updated quarterly. Companies tracked include 3Com/H3C, Alcatel-Lucent, Cisco, Citrix Netscaler, D-Link, Extreme, F5, Force10, Foundry, Huawei, Linksys, NETGEAR, Nortel, ProCurve, Radware, SMC, and others.
Download report highlights at www.infonetics.com. For sales, contact Larry Howard, vice president, at larry@infonetics.com or +1 (408) 583-3335.
Infonetics Research (www.infonetics.com) is an international market research and consulting firm specializing in data networking and telecom. Services include market share and forecasting, end-user survey research, service provider survey research and capex analysis.
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