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Global Ethernet switch and router markets decline in third quarter: IDC
The decline in the Ethernet switch market was mainly due to the slower growth in the 10GbE core segment of the market,Global market for Ethernet switches declined 4.4% during the third quarter of 2012 to $5.36bn while the router market declined 0.2% over the orresponding quarter in 2012, according to IDC Worldwide Quarterly Ethernet Switch and Router Tracker.The 3Q12 results reveal that the Ethernet switch market reported growth in regions including Latin America, Japan, Central & Eastern Europe, and Middle East & Africa (MEA), while declined3.5%, 6.4% and 10% in Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan), the US and Western Europe respectively.IDC Network Infrastructure vice president Rohit Mehra said that the unexpected decline in the Ethernet switch market was mainly due to the slower growth in the 10GbE core segment of the market that could not completely offset the decline in the networkedge/access segment."10GbE along with the emerging 40GbE Ethernet switch segments are the ones to watch as growth in virtualized applications and converged infrastructure will continue to drive the need for advanced networks in datacenter buildouts," Mehra said.The revenue generated from 10GbE switch (Layer 2/3) rose 10.7% during the quarter, while the shipments of 10GbE ports increased 61.4% to about 3.5 million ports when compared to the corresponding quarter in 2011.During the period, the global market for Layer 4-7 switches reported 6.9% rise year over year to $414.9m over the same period in last year.The global router market reported strong results regionally by reporting 21.5% rise in Middle East & Africa in addition to high single digit rises experienced in Asia/Pacific and the US.During the quarter, router market in Central & Eastern Europe declined 8.7% year over year, while Latin America reported 12.2% decline along with 20.8% drop reported by Western Europe when compared to the same quarter in 2011.The market for Cisco's Ethernet switch (Layer 2/3) declined to 62.2% from 65.6% in 3Q11, while the firm's market share in 10GbE segment stood at 68.5%during the period.
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Carrier Ethernet OAM
Standards bodies are defining the data collection, which is a good thing and could keep costs down. Discovering switches, the ports and E-line/E-Lan services configured in the switch can be made available in an inventory list view. Logical elements like services, UNIs, endpoints and profiles can also be captured by a discovery filter. These objects can be seen both under a network database list view and a Carrier Ethernet physical map. However, scale, high availability and the integration story is cloudy and can ultimately drive the costs up. Developing to a complex integration standard costs money. The end goal really is to enable informed, proactive management and swift problem resolution that effectively runs their operations.To overcome the management challenge, we (and others) have pre-built object models to support standards-based equipment and extend the object model, which can be mapped to support various equipment.There can be better control over networks with flow-through automation, real-time QoS performance and bandwidth monitoring that accelerates time-to-market and ensures customer Service Level Agreements (SLAs) via standards.Performance monitoring and health checking can be real-time or historical on service and can go down to a port, EVC utilization or transmission errors, and perform QoS thresholds and KPIs. For fault, you can use RFC2544FdAlarm and RFC2544JitterAlarm that can are parsed and correlated into meaningful actionable alarms. Class-of-service flows can allow for testing of throughput, latency and jitter. The network can be engineered for different traffic priorities.Configuration, activation and monitoring of RFC2544 tests as well as threshold definitions and notification reception can be supported. Provisioning the Ethernet services and OAM profiles can be accomplished via a user interface. Logical elements like services, endpoints, UNIs, NNIs, and ports can be added. Various profiles like bandwidth profile, performance profile, an RFC2544 profile and CFM profile can be added and the same can be associated to endpoints of a service. The scaling challenge is always present and if architected correctly, management systems can scale to very large sizes. One way to accommodate scale is to use multi-threading data collection in a distributed hardware environment or virtual machines. This distributed data collection can roll up to a centralized backend to handle the correlation business logic, performance KPIs and reporting across the network.High availability can be accomplished by hardening the OS and providing standby hardware and using database replication techniques (a topic for a future blog).Lastly, system integration between management systems and OSS and BSS systems need not be expensive and standards bodies can tend to go overboard. Technologies can be accomplished using the cloud model by publishing an SOAP or REST API and using accepted industry protocols, which will keep costs down. The technology exists today — use it.Eric Wegner is a 20-year veteran of the industry and has 10 years of experience with ZOHO Corp . (formerly AdventNet) working on large and complex network management infrastructures for network equipment manufacturers, service providers and military contractors. Eric joined the company as the first sales person and is now business development manager leading the WebNMS division in North America.
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10 Gigabit Ethernet still too expensive on servers
It may not be entirely clear what is holding back the x86 server racket in the most recent quarter – round up the usual suspects – but networking market watcher Dell'Oro says it knows what isn't helping as it was expected: 10 Gigabit Ethernet.In a report casing the 10GE server adapter market it is a bit hard to figure out which came first: the Intel "Romley" Xeon E5 server platform chicken or the 10GE LAN-on-motherboard egg for the servers based on this combination of "Sandy Bridge" CPUs and "Patsburg" chipsets. What is clear to the analysts at Dell'Oro is that 10GE adapter sales were almost flat sequentially in Q3, and that was not what the server makers or Dell'Oro were expecting."We see two key factors constraining server migration to 10 Gbps network connectivity," explained Sameh Boujelbene, senior analyst for the controller and adapter market at Dell'Oro, in the statement. "First, slow migration to Romley-based server platforms, and second, users continue to opt for 1 Gbps – the price premium for 10 Gbps versus 1 Gbps is too wide of a gap."The ramp for 10GE was supposed to follow a pattern similar to Fast Ethernet and Gigabit Ethernet before it. In those cases, companies installed some faster switches at a premium and use more expensive PCI-based adapter cards for those applications where the higher bandwidth and lower latency is necessary and justifies the higher cost.Then, a year or two later, the volume ramp for that latest Ethernet technology takes off skyward when the cost (and now power consumption) of the chips for implementing that technology come down and are integrated on the motherboard with a perceived zero cost to the server buyer.To Dell'Oro, it looks like the Romley ramp is taking longer than expected, and that is slowing down the 10GE server ramp."The Romley server transition is looking to be a four-to-five quarter transition rather than a two-to-three quarter transition for many of the major server manufacturers," adds Boujelbene. "Third quarter 2012 was a critical quarter as we expected some of the large server manufacturers to be shipping mostly Romley-based servers, but this did not manifest."Part of the problem might be that the Romley launch itself was staged, with pre-launch machines shipping in August and September last year around. Intel was widely expected to launch the initial Xeon E5-2600 processors for two-socket servers in the third quarter of 2011, and then in the fourth quarter.But issues with the SAS disk controller in the chipset (it was supposed to run at 6Gb/sec but was backstepped to 3Gb/sec) and other factors in the market compelled Intel to push the Xeon E5-2600 and Romley platform launch to March and to hold back the Xeon E5-2400 (for cheaper two-socket boxes) and the E5-4600 (for four-socket boxes) until May. Part of the problem, it would seem, is that the Romley ramp itself took some time and was later than expected.The other factor, of course, is that the global economy has been more jittery than a drunk who hasn't had a shot for a day or two, and the uncertainty around the US presidential election and what the winner might do for (or more precisely to) the economy also caused companies to pull back a bit.Uncertainties in the fiscal cliffs in both Europe and the US ripple around the globe, affecting all nations in this finite and yet unbounded spherical economy. (The world is not flat, but it is a rather thin veneer on a globe, a transition layer between molten rock and empty space that has most of the amenities we find convenient. Except when there is nowhere else to colonize and therefore extract unfair economic advantage.)Something is clearly not going as well as it could be in the x86 server racket, that's also for sure, and it doesn’t look like Dell is the culprit. Dell got out of the gate with Xeon E5 server shipments ahead of most of its competitors with the revamping of its PowerEdge server line with its 12G systems.In the most recent quarter ended on November 2, Dell reported that Xeon E5 machines represented two-third of its revenues. And hyperscale systems built by its Data Center Solutions unit grew 26 per cent.Dell's networking business grew 40 per cent, but Dell does not yet break server and networking sales apart. Together, they comprised $2.32bn and rose 11 per cent year-on-year in the most recent quarter, which was the company's third quarter of fiscal 2013.Force10 Networks is the bulk of Dell's networking revenues and had an estimated $200m annual run rate when Dell acquired it in July 2011. Dell doesn't have a Romley server ramp problem, but because the LAN-on-motherboard is a snap in card and does not come for free, customers may be balking just the same at moving on up to 10GE.That suggests that the problem is not the Romley platform per se, but rather the fact that 10GE is a priced option on a lot of Romley systems and Gigabit Ethernet is still the default.Here's an example. On that PowerEdge R620 two-socket, 1U rack server, a Broadcom Gigabit Ethernet daughter card is the default LOM snap-in, and it costs $159 to put in the quad-port Intel Gigabit Ethernet card. The Broadcom two-port 10GE plus two-port Gigabit daughter card that snaps in to the mobo costs $629, and an Intel daughter card that has two 10GE ports and a single Gigabit port costs $659. This is on a server that has a base price of $1,559.The fact that the x86 server market as a whole is not doing well is not helping the 10GE cause on the server side, either. In the quarter ended on October 31, Hewlett-Packard's ProLiant, BladeSystem, and Scalable System revenues in aggregate fell by 7 per cent to $3.14bn, with particular softness in x86 server sales in EMEA.IBM doesn't provide revenue figures by server product line, but did say during its call going over its September quarter that its sales were off 5 percent for its System x and BladeCenter lines.
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