Huawei Ethernet Switches Maintain Leading Position Globally

Huawei Ethernet Switches Maintain Leading Position Globally
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Huawei maintained strong momentum throughout 2017 and continued to play a leading role in the global Ethernet switch market, according to the Worldwide Quarterly Ethernet Switch Tracker 2017 Q4 report released by IDC. The global analytics company noted that Huawei also held onto the top spot in the Chinese Ethernet switch market in 2017.

The IDC report said the global Ethernet switch market recorded approximately US$27.49 billion in revenue in 2017, with a year-over-year growth rate of 5%. Huawei held second place in the global market, and recorded the highest year-over-year growth among the top three vendors. In particular, Huawei ranked first in the Chinese Ethernet switch market for the third consecutive year.

Huawei has two Ethernet switch families: campus switches and data-center switches. Its complete lineup of fixed and modular devices provides the required connectivity for campus and data-center scenarios in enterprises of all sizes. The company's campus switches build on Huawei-developed Ethernet Network Processor (ENP) programmable chips and provide wired and wireless convergence, full-lifecycle cloud management and automation, and other unmatched features. These feature-rich switches are also fully compatible with third-party devices.

All of these factors help reduce investment costs and meet user requirements. Huawei's data-center switches provide higher density, better scalability, more automated management of overlay and underlay networking, and more unified multi-cloud open architecture than other comparable products. These highly competitive switches are driving traditional data-center networks to seamlessly adapt to an SDN and multi-cloud era.