Fixed configuration All Gigabit switch market and technology trends

Because it is all gigabit, fixed configuration All Gigabit switch Once is the network product of "nobility". At present, "noble" is "civilian", ushered in a rapid development stage. So what are its biggest selling points, trends, and status in the manufacturer's product line? The reporter tried to interpret it by means of interviews.

Where's the biggest selling point? Non-cost-effective

In the vast number of users of the network to build TCO (total cost of ownership) more and more attention today, again good products if not enough to attract people's cost-effective also difficult to obtain a large number of applications. Fixed-Configuration All gigabit switches have become more and more users ' choice because of their excellent price/performance ratio.

What is the biggest selling point for a fixed-gigabit switch? Zhangxiaopeng, director of technology and business development at Alcatel Enterprise Network, said that such products are often "big people", such as the 1U "stature" to support up to 200Gbps over the exchange capacity, to meet the user's requirements for the performance of the switch, At the same time with high-end switches the same intelligence, security, as a small network core, large-scale network convergence and metropolitan area Network access have ultra-high cost performance. In addition to product performance, Zhangxiaopeng also highlighted this type of equipment "with ultra-high price." Hewlett-Packard ProCurve Technical director Bin said that users can be fixed to configure all gigabit switches, low-cost implementation of gigabit to desktop applications to meet increasingly complex network environment and increasingly stringent application requirements.

Huawei 3Com Product Manager Liu Shaofeng more specific, no matter what products, to meet the needs of users are multi-faceted. First, the technology needs to mature. Gigabit Ethernet technology mature and stable, its standards have been passed for many years, and gigabit technology compatibility is very good, to meet the compatibility of 10/100/1000m Ethernet, reduce the cost of construction of users. Second, because the price of gigabit network products has been falling, has been able to meet the large-scale deployment of users, the main reason is that gigabit network products chip market competition intensified, forming a diversified competition pattern, so that gigabit network product prices tend to be reasonable, will make gigabit access or gigabit network market more widespread and popular. Finally, the fixed configuration of all gigabit switches based on the above two points, so that gigabit access into a wide range of deployment as a reality, from the backbone to the desktop network throughput, performance will be able to reach a new level. As users need to continuously improve the speed of the network connection, the deployment of a new desktop with 10/100/1000mbps copper wire connection is the most economical way, which will greatly improve the quality of the network and user productivity, for various applications of specific business differentiation and control to provide a solid foundation.

Users need to be reminded that the fixed configuration of all gigabit switches are divided into network-free all gigabit switches, weak network management of all gigabit switches and intelligent all gigabit switches, of course, there are two and three layers, they are very different in function, so when comparing prices must be in the same grade of products on the comparison.