The move reveals a little secret: While the bulk of industry switch
revenue is coming from Gigabit Ethernet, most switch ports shipping
today are still 10/100 Ethernet.
A trend on the part of network switching vendors threatens to blow the lid
off the networking industry’s dirty little secret: While the majority of
industry switch revenue is from Gigabit Ethernet, most switch ports shipped
today are still 10/100 Ethernet.
Hewlett-Packard’s ProCurve unit on Feb. 5 will become the latest network
switch vendor to release brand new 10/100 Ethernet edge switches for customers
upgrading their networks. ProCurve joins others such as Extreme Networks,
3Com and Nortel Networks, who have come out with new 10/100 Ethernet switches
within the last 12 months.
With the costs coming down for Gigabit Ethernet, why not just make them
10/100/1000 switches?
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