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January 28, 2014

Crehan Research Predicts 2014 to be a Major Year of Transition for Data Center Switching

By Meenakshi Shankar
TMCnet Contributor


 

Crehan Research is a company which focuses on providing reports on the data center switch and server-class adapter and LOM/controller markets. The company’s latest findings indicate that the year 2014 will see a major transition in Data Center Switching technologies. These latest findings updated in its report titled, “Data Center Switch Long-Range Forecast Report.”


Back in 1950, Data Centers came into existence, and since then they are vibrantly evolving to meet the challenges of changing business landscape. There has been a drastic changes in the development of core switches in Data Center. Crehan Research indicates that 2014 should be a year of major transition for three key data-center switch technologies - Ethernet, Fiber Channel and Infiniband Technologies.

"10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) is finally on the verge of becoming the most popular data center switch port connection, after a long and sometimes rocky adoption curve," Seamus Crehan, president of Crehan Research said in a statement.

"And as 40GbE starts to ramp, we are still forecasting its adoption curve to look much better than that of 10GbE. This is already evidenced by the fact that recent data center switch introductions are really pushing the envelope on 40GbE port densities and economics," Crehan added.

Regarding Infiniband switch market, Crehan mentioned 56Gbps FDR as the next de facto high-speed interconnect, which would eventually move to 100Gbps EDR products.

The forecast indicates that each technology will surpass the incumbent, becoming the majority of its respective segment.

According to Crehan, in Infiniband, 56Gbps FDR will overtake 40Gbps QDR to comprise more than 50 percent of shipments; in Fiber Channel, 16Gbps will exceed 8Gbps to comprise more than 50 percent of shipments and in Ethernet, 10 Gigabit will outstrip 1 Gigabit to comprise more than 50 percent of shipments.

In Fiber Channel, the report mentioned that the 8Gbps, 16Gbps Fibre Channel adoption is picking up steam and is likely to become the majority Fibre Channel switch technology by 2014.

In a report published back in June 2013, Crehan Research had projected a growth for 40GbE and 100GbE data center switching. The report indicated a compound annual growth rate of more than 100 percent over the next five years, with these two technologies dominating by 2017.

The current forecast too maintains the same outlook. 




Edited by Cassandra Tucker
 

 
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