Portola Valley, California – July 2, 2018 – A newly released report by 650 Group reveals strong forecasted growth in the Enterprise plus Outdoor Wireless LAN market.  Emerging 802.11ax technology is expected to experience rapid adoption, with a first wave of shipments beginning in 2018, followed by a second wave of products in 2019 and beyond.  Overall, 650 Group expects 802.11ax to represent the majority of shipments by 2022.

“We expect overall growth in the Enterprise-class plus Outdoor WLAN market will be driven by two main trends over the five year horizon,” said Chris DePuy, Founder and Technology Analyst 650 Group.  “First, traditional use of WLAN devices such as computers and mobile devices will continue to drive additional WLAN infrastructure investment at companies mainly in emerging markets for the next few years.  We have already reached a point of WLAN deployment saturation in at companies in developed markets, where such enterprises mainly upgrade existing WLAN installations when improved products hit the market.  Second, beginning in the next 2-3 years, we expect the adoption of IoT devices, including those involving video surveillance, will become significant enough to drive additional spending on WLAN infrastructure to sustain growth in the later years of the forecast.”

By 2022, Enterprise-class plus Outdoor WLAN products are expected to grow to over 35% greater than 2017 levels.  Adding in revenue from cloud-managed WLAN services, which are very popular with branch office deployments and at small businesses, to product-only revenues, 650 Group expects the compounded annual growth rate to increase by over one percentage point.

After a significant slowdown in Enterprise-class plus Outdoor WLAN revenues in China over the past two years, we still expect growth in this region be more powerful than in any of the other six geographic regions that are tracked in the WLAN Infrastructure quarterly and forecast studies conducted by 650 Group. 

Vendors included in the quarterly market share report are Aerohive, Arris/Ruckus Wireless, Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise, Cisco, DELL, Extreme Networks, H3C, HPE Aruba, Huawei, Riverbed/Xirrus, Sundray, and Ubiquiti Networks. 

About the Unified Access and Cloud-Services Market Forecast and Quarterly Reports
The Unified Access and Cloud-Services Quarterly Report offers a market assessment of vendor performance and market share in the combined market of Campus Ethernet Switches and Enterprise-class WLAN infrastructure devices, as for cloud-managed Wi-Fi and switch services and related product revenues.  For more information about the report, contact the sales department at 650 Group at +1 650 600 7104 or val@650group.com or www.650group.com.
 
About 650 Group
650 Group is a leading Market Intelligence Research firm for communications, data center and cloud markets.  ​Our team has decades of research experience, has worked in the technology industry, and is actively involved in standards bodies.  650 Group focuses on leading edge market trends and research and prides itself on first to market research.
 

Portola Valley, California – January 16, 2017 – A newly released market leading report by 650 Group indicates that 200 Gbps, 400 Gbps, and 800 Gbps will all ship in the next five years resulting in robust growth for the Ethernet Switch Market. 
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“The first wave of 200 Gbps and 400 Gbps will hit the market in early 2018 as the Ethernet Switch market expands the number of port speeds just three years since the last major set of technology advances. Both 200 Gbps and 400 Gbps will emerge off of 50 Gbps SERDES technology announced in 2017,” said Alan Weckel, Founder and Technology Analyst at 650 Group.  “The rapid pace of innovation is led not only by impressive technology improvements, but by Software Defined Networks (SDN) which is enabling the Cloud to better utilize the compute and networking resources at their disposal.”

650 Group authored several forecast reports on the subject of 200 Gbps and 400 Gbps as well as 25 and 50 Gbps SERDES speeds.

Merchant Silicon looks at the transition in the market amongst silicon vendors and how the market will transition.  Quarterly reports on this subject include market share for Broadcom, the market leader, as well as emerging vendors like Barefoot, Cavium, Innovium, Mellanox, and Nephos. 

The Ethernet Switching report family, which includes several unique reports ranging from the overall market to Data Center, SMB, and Enterprise/Campus looks closely at the technology and speed transitions amongst the different markets within switching and for data center switching looks closely at vendor market positioning in the installed base and amongst unique vertical splits such as the Cloud, Telco SP, and enterprise space.  This report indicates that Arista, Cisco, Dell, H3C, HPE, Huawei, and Juniper all have significantly different market share in each vertical within data center switching.

About the Ethernet Switch Quarterly Report
The Data Center Ethernet Switch Quarterly Report offers a market assessment of vendor performance and market share in the Ethernet Switch market.  The report covers Modular, Fixed Managed, Smart Switching, White Box, and other segmentation as well as the following port speeds: 100 Mbps, 1 Gbps, 2.5 Gbps, 5.0 Gbps, 10 Gbps, 25 Gbps, 40 Gbps, 50 Gbps, and 100 Gbps.  For more information about the report, contact the sales department at 650 Group at +1 650 600 7104 or val@650group.com or www.650group.com.

About 650 Group
650 Group is a leading Market Intelligence Research firm for communications, data center and cloud markets.  ​Our team has decades of research experience, has worked in the technology industry, and is actively involved in standards bodies.

Arista, Cisco, and Juniper Jockey for Position While New Vendors Emerge for Data Center Edge and Data Center Interconnect Use Cases
 
Portola Valley, California – October 6, 2017 – An upcoming report by 650 Group, the leader in Switching, Routing and Data Center Interconnect market research and competitive positioning, indicates an intense battle for market positioning as the traditional router and switch product boundaries collapse at Cloud customers.
“Cloud architectures are changing significantly with 100 Gbps as demand for high density and universal platforms becomes common.  There is little incumbency advantage,” said Alan Weckel, Founder and Technology Analyst at 650 Group.  “Cloud customers are looking for advanced routing on high density Ethernet platforms, and each vendor, based on its heritage, is approaching the market differently.  Given the size of the Cloud, and the anemic growth occurring in the traditional service provider and enterprise spaces, we only see this battle amongst vendors becoming more intense as new vendors enter this space over the next six months.”
The reports also indicates that Nokia will enter the Cloud space with the its FP4-based ASICs as well as H3C and Huawei in China.  The Merchant Silicon report looks at ASIC positioning inside Data Center Switching while the Data Center Interconnect report looks at the various use cases and topologies in that emerging market.
 
About the Quarterly Report
650 Group authors several reports in the Ethernet Switch, Router, Data Center Interconnect, and Merchant Silicon space.  The reports offers a market assessment of vendor performance and market share in in each segment.  The reports covers Modular, Fixed Managed, Smart Switching, White Box, and other segmentation as well as the following port speeds: 100 Mbps, 1 Gbps, 2.5 Gbps, 5.0 Gbps, 10 Gbps, 25 Gbps, 40 Gbps, 50 Gbps, and 100 Gbps.  For more information about the report, contact the sales department at 650 Group at +1 650 600 7104 or val@650group.com or www.650group.com.
 
About 650 Group
650 Group is a leading Market Intelligence Research firm for communications, data center and cloud markets.  ​Our team has decades of research experience, has worked in the technology industry, and is actively involved in standards bodies.

Portola Valley, California – September 7, 2017 – A newly released market leading report by 650 Group indicates that Data Center Ethernet Switch market revenue and port shipments hit a record in 2Q17.  Arista, Dell, H3C, Juniper, and White Box all achieve all time record revenue results.  New platforms and strong demand drove growth.

“The Data Center Ethernet Switch market grew robustly in 2Q17 as many vendors, segments, and regions all reached new record highs,” said Alan Weckel, Founder and Technology Analyst at 650 Group.  “40 Gbps rebounded strongly in the enterprise segment while Cloud providers drove record shipments of 25/100 Gbps products.  The market also saw data center interconnect and open networking contribute significantly to the market growth”

The Quarterly Data Center Ethernet Switch report related to this segment indicates that Arista, Cisco, Dell, and Juniper are the largest US branded vendors in this space while Huawei and H3C remain the largest vendors in China.
 
About the Ethernet Switch Quarterly Report
The Data Center Ethernet Switch Quarterly Report offers a market assessment of vendor performance and market share in the Ethernet Switch market.  The report covers Modular, Fixed Managed, Smart Switching, White Box, and other segmentation as well as the following port speeds: 100 Mbps, 1 Gbps, 2.5 Gbps, 5.0 Gbps, 10 Gbps, 25 Gbps, 40 Gbps, 50 Gbps, and 100 Gbps.  For more information about the report, contact the sales department at 650 Group at +1 650 600 7104 or val@650group.com or www.650group.com.
 
About 650 Group
650 Group is a leading Market Intelligence Research firm for communications, data center and cloud markets.  ​Our team has decades of research experience, has worked in the technology industry, and is actively involved in standards bodies.

Portola Valley, California – September 6, 2017 – A newly released report by 650 Group indicates that revenues for Cloud-Managed Services of the combined market of WLAN Infrastructure and Campus Ethernet switches grew over 60% year-over-year.  Campus Ethernet Switch and Wireless LAN combined revenues accelerated to 10% Y/Y.  On a Y/Y basis, vendors that took revenue share in the of Unified Access, which consists of Campus Ethernet Switches and Enterprise-class Wireless LAN, were Extreme, Huawei and Ubiquiti Networks.

“Cloud-managed services revenue grew faster on a Y/Y basis than the prior quarter’s rate due to several factors.  First, revenue growth for Unified Access products, which consist of Campus Ethernet switches and Enterprise-class Wireless LAN, grew at its fastest rate in years,” said Chris DePuy, Founder and Technology Analyst at 650 Group.  “Second, the trend towards cloud-managed is as strong as ever as enterprise customers move away from hardware-based Wireless LAN Controller systems that were invented over 15 years ago.   Third, and much more recently, some vendors have incorporated cloud-managed services to manage their Campus Ethernet Switch products in addition to their Wireless LAN products.”

Vendors included in this report include Aerohive, Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise, Cisco, DELL, Extreme, H3C, HPE Aruba, Huawei, Juniper, Ruckus Wireless, Ubiquiti Networks and Riverbed Xirrus. Top revenue share vendors in the Unified Access market include Cisco, HPE Aruba and Huawei.  Top revenues in the cloud-managed Unified Access market include Cisco, Aerohive and HPE Aruba.

About the Unified Access and Cloud-Services Quarterly Report
The Unified Access and Cloud-Services Quarterly Report offers a market assessment of vendor performance and market share in the combined market of Campus Ethernet Switches and Enterprise-class WLAN infrastructure devices, as for cloud-managed Wi-Fi and switch services and related product revenues.  For more information about the report, contact the sales department at 650 Group at +1 650 600 7104 or val@650group.com or www.650group.com.
 
About 650 Group
650 Group is a leading Market Intelligence Research firm for communications, data center and cloud markets.  ​Our team has decades of research experience, has worked in the technology industry, and is actively involved in standards bodies.  650 Group focuses on leading edge market trends and research and prides itself on first to market research.
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