Switching and Routing Battle for Data Center Leadership Intensifies in 3Q17,

According to 650 Group

Arista, Cisco, and Juniper Jockey for Position While New Vendors Emerge for Data Center Edge
and Data Center Interconnect Use Cases. An upcoming report by 650 Group, the leader in
Switching, Routing and Data Center Interconnect market research and competitive positioning,
indicates an intense battle for market positioning as the traditional router and switch product
boundaries collapse at Cloud customers.

Portola Valley, CA, November 15, 2017 --(PR.com)-- An upcoming report by 650 Group, the leader in
Switching, Routing and Data Center Interconnect market research and competitive positioning, indicates
an intense battle for market positioning as the traditional router and switch product boundaries collapse at
Cloud customers.

Cloud architectures are changing significantly with 100 Gbps as demand for high density and universal
platforms becomes common. There is little incumbency advantage, said Alan Weckel, Founder and
Technology Analyst at 650 Group. Cloud customers are looking for advanced routing on high density
Ethernet platforms, and each vendor, based on its heritage, is approaching the market differently. Given
the size of the Cloud, and the anemic growth occurring in the traditional service provider and enterprise
spaces, we only see this battle amongst vendors becoming more intense as new vendors enter this space
over the next six months.

The reports also indicates that Nokia will enter the Cloud space with the its FP4-based ASICs as well as
H3C and Huawei in China. The Merchant Silicon report looks at ASIC positioning inside Data Center
Switching while the Data Center Interconnect report looks at the various use cases and topologies in that
emerging market.

About the Quarterly Report

650 Group authors several reports in the Ethernet Switch, Router, Data Center Interconnect, and
Merchant Silicon space. The reports offers a market assessment of vendor performance and market share
in in each segment. The reports covers Modular, Fixed Managed, Smart Switching, White Box, and other
segmentation as well as the following port speeds: 100 Mbps, 1 Gbps, 2.5 Gbps, 5.0 Gbps, 10 Gbps, 25
Gbps, 40 Gbps, 50 Gbps, and 100 Gbps. For more information about the report, contact the sales
department at 650 Group at +1 650 600 7104 or val@650group.com or www.650group.com.

About 650 Group

650 Group is a leading Market Intelligence Research firm for communications, data center and cloud
markets. Our team has decades of research experience, has worked in the technology industry, and is
actively involved in standards bodies.

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