Global Data Center Switch market to $16 billion

Crehan research company in its latest data center switch long-term Forecast report, the 2017 Data center switch market will reach 16 billion U.S. dollars. The report shows that Ethernet, including Fibre Channel Ethernet (FCoE), will become the growing http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/6517.html "> market segment in the overall market." In addition, 10GBASE-T switches and 40GbE switches will grow very strongly in the Ethernet segment.

Seamus Crehan, president of Crehan Research, said: "In view of the mid-2012 10GBASE-T server Adapters and lan-motherboard shipments presented with step-by-function growth, as well as the subsequent introduction of many attractive 10GBASE-T data center switches, We expect the 10GBASE-T switch port shipments to grow exponentially. ”

Crehan that the rise in 40GbE shipments will be driven by the following factors. First, upgrades to the 10GbE switch in the server access layer drive 40GbE deployments of the uplink, aggregation, and core layers in the data center network.

Second, the 40GbE, with the QSFP interface, can also be used as four separate 10GbE links, not only to provide a very high 10GbE switch port density, but also to provide flexibility for uplink/downlink and excess configuration/line speeds.

The report also predicts strong growth in the 100GbE switch. However, the report also points out that 100GbE may be an important long-term data center switch technology that will require a certain amount of time before its price and port density can develop into meaningful market influence.

In addition to the major Ethernet segments, Crehan predicts that the InfiniBand switch will continue to grow faster than the overall data center switch market.

The Fibre Channel switch market is expected to peak relative to Infiniband,crehan. However, although Fibre Channel is still an important data center storage network technology, its shipments are expected to decline gradually.