IDC in the Ethernet Switch Market

 There were also significant share changes outside the top three, such as Arista Networks, Dell and Juniper Networks all exceeding $500 million a year, Dell'Oro Group said in its latest study.

        Google, Amazon and Microsoft's Data Center Deployment-Assisted Ethernet Switch Market Drives New Revenue Highs in 2014. The Ethernet switch market reached unprecedented high revenues and port shipments in the fourth quarter of 2014, with growing revenues in both the data center and campus markets in 2014.

"Cloud customers hit the quarter hard, driving white box, Arista, and Cisco to a new record for revenue and port shipments during the 4Q14 data center period," said Alan Weckel, group vice president of Dell'Oro Group, a study of Ethernet switches, .

        The Ethernet switch market (Layer 2/3) revenue grew 3.8% to $6.2 billion in Q4 2014 to 2014, the market increased by 3.9%.

Cisco Ethernet switching grew 3.8 percent in the fourth quarter of 2014, but its market share dropped 61.1 percentage points from 62.9 percent in the previous quarter. Cisco also maintained 61.1 percent in the fourth quarter of 2013.

        In the 10 Gigabit Ethernet segment, Cisco held a market share of 59.3 percent in Q4 2014 63.7 confrontation percent in the previous quarter and 63.9 percent in Q3 2013.

        HP Ethernet switch revenues grew by 6.3%. HP's share of the market for switches has now reached 9.5 percent versus 9.3 percent in the third quarter of 2014 and 9.2 percent in the fourth quarter of 2013.

Juniper Networks Ethernet switching declined 8.3 percent.

        "The Ethernet switch market continues to have greater speed and feeds, i.e., the story of the rise of 10Gb and 40Gb Ethernet," Cheech Jirovsky research manager at IDC's Network Tracker Group