Ethernet switch market grew by 6.5% and router by 2.2%, as per IDC

IDC has reported the worldwide Ethernet switch market (Layer 2/3) reached $5.66 billion in the third quarter of 2013 (3Q13), representing a year-over-year increase of 6.5%. On a sequential basis the 3Q13 increased 5.2%. IDC also reported the worldwide router market jumped 7.8% year over year, which was the highest annual growth rate seen in over two years. Sequentially, the router market grew 2.2%. From a geographic perspective, IDC finds the 3Q13 results show the Ethernet switch market had its highest growth in Middle East & Africa (22.7% year over year) and very good growth in North America (12.0% year over year). Latin America and Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) both grew in the mid-single digits while the Western Europe and Central & Eastern Europe regions were up in the 1-2% range. Meanwhile, Japan declined -13.4% year over year in 3Q13. "The worldwide Ethernet Switch market is increasingly a tale of two market segments with different market dynamics: the enterprise campus segment, which includes the network edge, and the higher growth datacenter segment that is driving 10GbE and 40GbE as cloud rollouts continue to increase," said Rohit Mehra, Vice President, Network Infrastructure at IDC. "It's also worth noting that growth trends and overall regional performance in these segments vary widely among the regional and country markets across the various theaters, driven ...