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Thursday, June 7, 2018

Network-intelligence platforms, cloud fuel a run on faster Ethernet

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Network-intelligence platforms, cloud fuel a run on faster Ethernet
Network-intelligence platforms, cloud fuel a run on faster Ethernet

2018 is shaping up to be a banner year for all things Ethernet.

First of all, the ubiquitous networking technology is having a banner year already in the data center where in the first quarter alone, the switching market recorded its strongest year-over-year revenue growth in over five years, and 100G Ethernet port shipments more than doubled year-over-year, according to a report by Dell’Oro Group researchers.

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The 16-percent switching growth was, "driven by the large-tier cloud hyperscalers such as Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Facebook but also by enterprise customers,” said Sameh Boujelbene, senior director at Dell’Oro.

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