An Intelligent competition in the Ethernet switch Market

Ethernet switches are still commonly used. So I studied the intelligent features of Ethernet switches and shared them with you here. I hope they will be useful to you. Enterprise applications are surging to Promote the Development of Ethernet switches. Ethernet has the advantages of simple connection and better performance and price ratio, and has a broader development space. Therefore, the use of Ethernet technology to achieve broadband communication has become the focus of the industry. The superiority of the network can be fully expressed only in practical applications, and the specific application requirements change with the market environment.

At first, enterprises needed office automation, specifically in file printing, file transmission, file storage, Web browsing, and quick transfer of simple graphics and images. After the enterprise implements office automation, the implementation requirements of CRM and ERP have been put on the agenda. There are many reports in this regard in the media. After the emergence of broadband networks, people have higher network requirements, such as video-on-demand and MP3 multimedia applications. In an ever-evolving environment, Cisco and other network companies integrate market needs into the network to develop new products and devices based on customer needs to improve the quality of work, study, and life.

Ethernet switches focus on "smart switching"

Intelligent exchange provides an architecture to meet application needs and solve existing problems. Simply put, it is something that brings users the actual needs. The concept of intelligence is relative to non-intelligence. So what does network intelligence mean? Let's use the broadband example to illustrate the meaning of intelligence.

For a personal user with 10 MB Ethernet, can this 10 MB Ethernet be called a real broadband? No. This is because, as users increase, the network demand for bandwidth is also increasing, but the network's own attributes make it difficult to change the bandwidth of the backbone network. Furthermore, if the bandwidth increases and the connection between the user and the backbone network expands, if the exchange processing device in the network center cannot store the data well, the network still cannot be well applied.

In addition, users often use Gigabit technology to transmit data to the backbone network at the edge of the network. Therefore, in the process of data forwarding, there is no problem in the transmission of lines from 10 MB to 1000 MB, however, if you want to send 1000 MB of backbone network data to 10 MB of users through the central forwarding processing device, there will be some problems, and there is no reasonable technology to handle it. To sum up, Ethernet switches require intelligent exchange, which Cisco strongly advocates.

Features:

The biggest difference between a PC and a network device is that a single PC has value for use, but network devices have value for use only when they are connected to each other. How to connect and optimize the connection between network devices. Since the birth of the network, the concept of network management has emerged. Network management is a network management system. It refers to the Simple Network Management Protocol of SNMP, which is embodied by software and hardware in the hardware or network management system. For example, the equipment vendor hardware a management software set and then put it in an Ethernet switch and router, or put it on the backbone devices of other network systems, devices in this network can be called network management devices.

Network management not only manages network devices, but also monitors and manages network data streams. Because Ethernet switches manage network data streams and require a large amount of computing resources, some companies have released Ethernet switches that omit network management functions to save device costs. However, all Cisco products are network management devices. The concept of network management can be divided into two aspects. First, it refers to the management of data streams by network devices, which are implemented by switching devices and routing devices; second, network devices can be managed. Users can manage IP addresses and network devices through the network platform.

At the beginning, the network structure was relatively simple and its applications were not very complex. At that time, the main criteria for network management were: whether devices could be managed, and whether Ethernet switches could be managed. As enterprises increase their network requirements, the network structure becomes more and more complex. network management functions can be better integrated with Enterprise Services only by better controlling the network, so that the IP Business Invested by enterprises can be better carried out. This also prompted the switch technology to expand from the second layer to the third layer and even the fourth layer, from the first two priority queues to the current four priority queues, from simple arrangement to complex, cyclical, and optimized system development.

Market features:

With the increasing informatization construction in China, the Ethernet switch market is also expanding. However, because the domestic network environment is different from the foreign network environment, there are also great differences in technical management and development concepts, so domestic and international vendors are still in different stages of development.

China has already officially joined the WTO, and the competition in the domestic Ethernet switch market will be more intense. In this field, various vendors have both cooperation and competition, in many fields of technology, products and services, the development degree in China is very close to that in other countries. After joining the WTO, more in-depth cooperation in a higher level and a wider range of fields is a good strategy for Chinese and foreign vendors to achieve a win-win situation in this market. Objectively speaking, the emergence of new competitors in the market is good for any vendor. If there is competition, the manufacturer will make more efforts to provide better services to the customer, and the user will have more room for choice.