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Bare Metal Switching Stall Continues; Data Center Networking Market Up 6 Percent in 2015

By Cliff Grossner, Ph.D., senior research director, data center, cloud and SDN, IHS Technology Analysis The global data center network equipment market, including data center Ethernet switches, application delivery controllers (ADCs) and WAN optimization appliances (WOAs), grew 6 percent in 2015 from 2014, to $11.8 billion. White box bare metal switch port shipment growth has stalled for the moment as the large cloud service providers (CSPs) transition to Tomahawk-based units supporting 25GE and 100GE, which just…

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