Data Centers Serve as Growth Engine for Ethernet Switches

direct attach and 10G Base-T. We further anticipate that in 2014, small and medium businesses will upgrade to 10 GbE. Looking towards the second half of the decade, 40 GE and 100 GE switches will be an important growth driver for the Ethernet switch market,” stated Weckel.

Besides data centers, the other three main deployment locations for Ethernet switches include the  Enterprise (e.g., campus and branch office), small and medium businesses (SMBs), and carrier Ethernet services. Major Ethernet switch vendors discussed in the report include Alcatel-Lucent, Cisco (News

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