The Ethernet switch market grew to $4.2 billion during fourth quarter of 2009.
During fourth quarter of 2009, Ethernet switch sales grew 15% sequentially, 4% on a year-over-year basis.
Buyers migrated to lower cost switches, which hurt revenue. Nevertheless, the high-value chassis switch segment of the market showed the highest sequential growth during fourth quarter of 2009 than of any other segment.
After a rough first quarter, the 10G Ethernet switch market saw 63 percent worldwide revenue growth in 2009 over 2008.
Cisco easily kept its No. 1 status in the market over the soon-to-be-combined forces of HP and 3Com.
Cisco’s Ethernet switch revenue shot up by 19 percent sequentially during fourth quarter of 2009.
Enterprise router revenue equaled $821 million worldwide during fourth quarter of 2009.
The market grew sales 10 percent sequentially during the last quarter of 2009.
Year-over-year sales declined dramatically in 2009 by 28 percent to just above $3 billion.
Still, Infonetics analysts believe the sequential increase during fourth quarter shows the enterprise market is stabilizing in all regions.
Cisco saw their unit share decrease only 1 point and its revenue share actually increase a point.
3Com is the big success story in 2009 as the only vendor to increase enterprise router revenue in 2009, based on the success of its H3C brand.
Wirelesss LAN equipment revenue equaled $571 million in fourth quarter of 2009.
Sales in the market grew 16 percent year-over-year during fourth quarter of 2009, but remained flat compared to the previous quarter.
Even though the Wireless LAN market went into freefall during early 2009, it only decreased by a total of 6 percent during all of 2009.
Infonetics predicts that the drive for enterprise mobility, fixed-mobile convergence (FMC), and wired/wireless LAN convergence will generate growth in the market in 2010 and beyond.
Cisco continues to lead the wireless LAN equipment market with 46% of the worldwide market in both 2009, followed by Aruba.