Worldwide Quarterly Ethernet Switch Tracker

IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Ethernet Switch Tracker® greatly enhances clients' ability to respond to today's dynamic IT market quickly and effectively. Understanding which global markets and segments are growing and knowing the quarterly adoption curve for new products are business-critical needs for Ethernet switch vendors, supply chain partners, and the financial community. This product provides insight into customer trends by delivering geography-specific vendor and product line detail across the Ethernet switch market. IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Ethernet Switch Tracker presents market data in an easy-to-use web-based query tool that allows clients to track any market, country, and product segment as needed. IDC's tracker products provide reliable, accurate, and independent market research as a base to create quantitative market analyses and study historical trends.

Technology Coverage

This tracker provides total market size and vendor share for the following technology areas. Measurements for this tracker are in ports, vendor revenue, and value.

Core Coverage

Company and vendor
Layer: Ethernet switch and ADC
Product: Fixed managed, fixed unmanaged, and modular
Speed: 100Mb, 1,000Mb, 2.5Gb/5Gb, 10Gb, 25Gb/50Gb, 40Gb, 100Gb, and 200Gb/400Gb
Place in network: Datacenter and non-datacenter
Measurements: Ports, vendor revenue, and value

Optional Content Add-Ons

Buyer and cloud deployment add-on including the following dimensions:

Place in network: Datacenter and non-datacenter
Deployment: Service provider (SP) and enterprise
Deployment type: Cloud provider, communications SP, and enterprise
Cloud deployment: Cloud and dedicated, cloud and shared, and noncloud and dedicated
Architecture: Hyperscale, non-hyperscale, traditional datacenter, and traditional non-datacenter
Measurements: Vendor revenue and value

Geographic Scope

Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan and PRC) (APEJC) (12): Australia, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia, New Zealand, the Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam, and the rest of Asia/Pacific
Canada
Central and Eastern Europe (10): Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine, and the rest of CEE
Japan
Latin America (7): Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru, Venezuela, and the rest of Latin America
PRC
Middle East and Africa (7): Egypt, Israel, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, and the rest of the Middle East and Africa
United States
Western Europe (16): Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom

Data Deliverables

This tracker is delivered on a [quarterly, semiannual] basis via a web-based interface for online querying and downloads. Deliverables for this tracker are listed below. For a complete delivery schedule, please contact an IDC sales representative.

Historical data
Five-year forecast data

Forecast Coverage

Forecasts for this tracker are updated quarterly and include five years of historical data and an additional five years of annual market projections. Forecasts are available at the worldwide, regional, and country levels according to the geographic scope detailed previously. The details of the forecasts included in this tracker are as follows:

Core Forecast Coverage