
HPE’s Ethernet switch market share now stands at around half the size of what the company used to occupy.

Historically, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) was the closest competitor of Cisco, although their market share has dropped significantly over recent years. The Dell EMC PowerSwitch S4128T-ON allows you to achieve performance and value for 10 GbE copper terminations to servers, and storage devices with this ToR switch, which supports 28 x 10GBase-T ports, 2x 40 GbE QSFP+ ports, 2x 100 GbE QFSP28 ports, and ONIE for zero-touch installation of alternate network operating systems. By leveraging a non-blocking, cut-through (default mode is store and forward) switching architecture, the S4820T delivers line-rate L2/元 features to maximize network performance. To better enable access to the horizontal fiber optic cabling that connects in-rack switches to aggregation switches, they are usually positioned near the top of the rack, however. The Dell Networking S-Series S4820T 1/10G BASE-T Top-of-Rack (ToR) switch is purpose-built for high performance data centers. In this way, Ethernet switches can control the flow of traffic passing through a network, maximizing the network's efficiency and security.Ĭisco has consistently been the biggest contributor of global ethernet switch revenues, with the Chinese firm Huawei and the fellow American company Arista Networks both generating strong revenues in this market too. Top-of-rack (ToR) switches are most often placed at the top of the rack but can be placed anywhere in the rack. At their most basic, switches can forward data selectively to one or more connected devices on the same network.


Key growth areas in the Ethernet switch market include hyperscale data centers and cloud providers who are investing in new technology platforms to support demand.Įthernet switches are an integral piece of information technology (IT) infrastructure, capable of receiving, processing, and transmitting data between two devices connected by a physical layer. In the third quarter of 2020, Cisco ranked first among vendors, occupying a share of 49.9 percent of the global Ethernet switch market, while Huawei ranked second.
