The document summarizes an Ethernet market research panel discussion at the Ethernet Technology Summit on April 15, 2015. The panel included experts from Dell'Oro Group, ACG Research, IT Brand Pulse, and Saygo who discussed topics like the total Ethernet market size, key market segments, trends in data center switching and carrier Ethernet, next-generation PON technologies, open Ethernet switching, and challenges to future market success.
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1. Ethernet Market Research Panel
Ethernet is Everywhere
Session A-102, Ethernet Technology Summit
April 15, 2015 9:50 – 10:50 am
Jathin Ullal, Infrastructure Architect, Saygo
Santa Clara, CA USA
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2. Market Research Panel
Vladimir Kozlov, CEO, LightCounting. Optoelectronics
Casey Quillin, Director, Dell'Oro Group. Enterprise, DC
Dennis Ward, Principal Analyst, ACG Research, Optical core
Frank Berry, Chief Analyst, IT Brand Pulse, Buyer behavior
Jathin Ullal, Infrastructure Architect, Saygo, Track Chair
Santa Clara, CA USA
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4. Santa Clara, CA USA
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Ethernet Market Map
Total Available Market
Market Drivers
• Supply side: Cost structure, Capital R&D Investment, Go To
Market, Inventory, Technology Roadmap, Competition
• Demand side: Current Market, Transitions, Life cycle,
Installed base, Application requirements, Budget, IT plans,
Business models
Macro-economic
Inflation, GDP Growth, Business confidence
5. Market Segmentation
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• Enterprise:
Large enterprise, Campus, SMB, PoE, Fixed & Modular switches,
Servers, PCs
• SOHO
• Data Center & Cloud
• Service Provider:
Carrier Ethernet, Routers & Switches, Access Devices, Services
• Optical :
10/40/100G, OTN, ROADM, Packet optical hw and optics
6. Data Center Ethernet Switch Market
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• Total Ethernet switch market ~ $ 25-30 B
• Data Center switch market ~ $ 8B 40M ports
• Price per port dropping ~ $ 200/ GbE port
• Over 10% of ports shipping are 40 & 100 GbE
7. Carrier Ethernet Market
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• By 2017*:
• $ 37B annual equipment revenue
• 95 Million ports
• 10G to overtake 1G
• APAC, US, EMEA, CALA
• Services
• Ethernet VPC (eVPC)
* Infonetics 2013 report
9. Open Ethernet Switching
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• Bare metal, White, Brite box switches
• Open Extensible network OS: Arista EOS vs Cumulus, PicOS,
Open Network Linux (ONL) vs Juniper, Dell NOS vs Cisco IOS
• Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK)
• Control Protocols – Openflow, Netconf, Yang
10. Challenges to Ethernet Market success
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• Ability to solve customer challenges in new and innovative ways
• Lack of leadership/support for innovation
• Components not available at the price point that customers demand
• Legacy infrastructure requiring upgrade
• Early in the standardization process
• Budgetary priorities
• User acceptance on a mass scale
• Reliability
• Interoperability
• Technology challenges
Editor's Notes
Welcome, Ethernet is Everywhere, I am, Logistics
Q1. Please explain the market challenges that each of you face in your domain area?
Ethernet continues to improve with new standards and products that expand the Ethernet ecosystem
5 new speeds being added to 6 existing speeds 2.5, 5. 25.50. 200
Faster backplanes to support100G
Increasing the power delivered to end devices to enable more functionalityPoE to power 13 PoE, 25 PoE+, 50w 4pairPoE connected devices
Use cases for the new speeds
Entrepreneurship opportunities – VC panel
Google deployment of 1Gbs in 43 cities across US
Townships deploying ePON
• Lack of leadership/support for innovation
• Comfort level – effect of disruption
• Time to make changes and adjust
• Understanding of and ability to implement
• Social implications – changes in collaboration communication styles
• Current processes or procedures
• Budgetary priorities
• Difficulty/availability/time for training
• Resistance to learning new technology
• Work stress/overload
• Cost
• Proof of value
• Reliability – will it continue to provide value
• User acceptance
• Performance