IDC has revealed Cisco share in Ethernet switch market in Q2 2017.
IDC said the Ethernet switch market revenue rose 7.8 percent to $6.43 billion in second quarter of 2017.
The total enterprise and service provider (SP) router market revenue grew 6.7 percent to $3.92 billion.
Ethernet switch market
Middle East and Africa (MEA) +16.8%
Asia Pacific (excluding Japan) +16.8%
Israel +85.2%
Vietnam +38.8%
Greece +142.6%
Hungary +48.1%
North America +4.9%
United States +5%
Latin America –3.3%
Argentina +49.1%
“Application explosion associated with digital transformation and continued proliferation of cloud buildouts underpinned a strong market performance in 2Q17,” said Rohit Mehra, vice president, Network Infrastructure at IDC.
10Gb Ethernet switch revenue increased 4.2 percent to $2.24 billion.
10Gb Ethernet switch port shipments grew 53.1 percent to 13.8 million ports.
40Gb Ethernet revenue fell 9.1 percent to $681.5 million, while port shipments fell 27.7 percent to below 1.4 million.
The 40Gb port shipments and revenue declines were primarily due to the rapid adoption of native 25Gb for top-of-rack Ethernet switch products by the larger public cloud and hyperscale providers.
25Gb port shipments reached over 557k ports and $71.4 million in revenue in 2Q17. 100Gb Ethernet strongly benefited from this trend with revenue growing 284 percent and shipments increasing 639 percent on an annualized basis.
1Gb Ethernet switch revenue increased 0.9 percent with 13.6 percent increase in port shipments in the same period, pointing to a maturing campus segment.
The enterprise and service provider router market grew 6.7 percent based on 11.2 percent increase in the larger service provider segment and 7.1 percent decrease in enterprise routing.
Router market
APeJ +30.7%
MEA +22%
CEE +21.2%
North America –6.4%
Latin America –8.4%
Japan –12%
Cisco achieved 3.8 percent increase in Ethernet switching market revenue and market share of 54.7 percent, down from its 55.1 percent share in Q1 and down from 56.8 percent in Q2 2016.
Cisco saw its service provider and enterprise router revenue decrease 1.9 percent on an annualized basis, while its market share came in at 41.2 percent in 2Q17, down from 43.9 percent in 1Q17, and 44.8 percent in 2Q16.
Huawei’s Ethernet switch revenue grew 39.9 percent for a market share of 8.5 percent, up from 6.3 percent in 1Q17 and 6.5 percent in 2Q16. Huawei’s enterprise and SP router revenue increased 41.7 percent to 25.2 percent of router market compared to 19.8 percent in 1Q17 and 18.9 percent in 2Q16.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s (HPE) Ethernet switch revenue decreased 0.4 percent and its market share stands at 5.6 percent, down from 6.0 percent in 1Q17 and 6.0 percent share in 2Q16.
Arista Networks’ Ethernet switching revenue rose 50.2 percent for a market share of 5.5 percent, up from 3.9 percent in 2Q16.
Juniper’s Ethernet switching increased 33.2 percent for a market share of 4.3 percent versus 3.5 percent. Juniper saw 0.4 percent drop in combined service provider and enterprise router revenues, with market share of 14.6 percent compared to 15.7 percent in 2Q16.
