The Ethernet switch market grew 10.8 percent year-over-year, while the router market declined 0.5 percent in the second quarter of 2021. The global Ethernet switch market generated $ 7.4 billion in revenue during this period. Meanwhile, revenue from the global enterprise and service (SP) router market fell to $ 3.9 billion, IDC reported.
The Ethernet switch market grew 10.8 percent year-over-year to 7.6 percent in the first quarter of 2021. is based on percentage growth. In the first half, revenue from Ethernet switches increased 9.3 percent compared to 2020. Revenues increased by 3.8 percent compared to the second quarter of 2019, prior to the COVID-19 epidemic.
they showed a picture. The Western European market grew by 23.1 percent year-over-year, driven by France’s 39.3 percent growth. The Central and Eastern European market grew at a substantially stagnant rate of 0.5%, while Russia experienced a decline of 4.8%
Revenues in Asia-Pacific in Asia-Pacific 11 , They grew 6 percent year – over – year, while the Japanese market expanded 8.3 percent. In the Asia-Pacific region more broadly, excluding China and Japan, the market grew by 20.5 percent quarter-over-quarter, supported by an annual growth of 58.2 percent in the Singapore market.
Near -In the East and Africa, the market grew 2.6 percent from the previous year. In the Americas, revenues in the United States rose 6.2 percent, the Canadian market fell 1.0 percent, the Latin American market rose 8.1 percent year-over-year, and Mexico grew 15.8 percent year-over-year
“The global Ethernet switch market started strongly in 2021 as macroeconomic conditions improved and more and more organizations around the world demonstrated their resilience and digital resilience to the rolling challenges posed by the COVID-19 epidemic. have made significant investments on their campuses, while hyperscalers and other cloud providers continue to drive increases in high-bandwidth data center connections, “said Brad Casemore, vice president of research at IDC Datacenter and Multicloud Networks.
Corporate and Service Providers The global router market declined 0.5 percent year-over-year in the second quarter. The large service segment, which accounts for 76.7 percent of revenue, declined 0.8 percent and the corporate segment grew 0.4 percent. Regionally, the combined market for service and enterprise routers grew 15.7 percent in Asia-Pacific (excluding Japan and China). The Japanese market expanded by 4.9 percent, while the market of the People’s Republic of China decreased by 14.4 percent compared to the previous year. In Western Europe, revenues increased 3.3 percent year-over-year, while in Central and Eastern Europe, the corporate and service markets combined stagnated. The Middle East and Africa region grew by 4.3 percent. In the U.S., the corporate segment declined 4.8 percent, while service revenues grew 7.8 percent, bringing the combined markets to 4.6 percent year-over-year growth. The Latin American market grew by 1.0 percent year-on-year and the Canadian market by 2.2 percent
The market performance of suppliers is shown in the figure below:
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