New managed network switches from Linksys

Linksys has announced its first managed switches in the Linksys Business product line-up to complement its portfolio of business networking products. With the latest addition, the Linksys Business line-up in South Africa now includes a full range of cost effective...

Ethernet switching goes to bare metal

Bare metal switches, which decouple hardware from software and offer greater agility and cost savings over traditional data centre switches, are expected to make up just under a quarter of all data centre ports shipped worldwide in 2019, up from 11% in 2014. This is...

Healthy growth for Ethernet market

Ethernet switch market revenues reached $5,7-billion worldwide in the second quarter of 2014 (2Q14), representing an increase of 6,2% year-over-year and 8,1% quarter-over-quarter. Meanwhile, worldwide router market revenues declined -4% year-over-year despite growing...

Mixed Q2 results for switches and routers

Worldwide Ethernet switch market (Layer 2/3) revenues reached $5,4-billion in the second quarter of 2013 (2Q13), representing a year-over-year decline of -1,1%, says IDC. On a sequential basis, the 2Q13 results increased 2,7% over a seasonally weaker first quarter....

Enterasys releases new Ethernet switches

A new family of high density, high-performance 10Gigabit Ethernet switches has been launched by Enterasys Networks. Targeted at high bandwidth and latency-sensitive applications, the new 7100-Series is ideally suited to the demands of modern data centres, according to...