“By comparability, the non-GenAI Datacenter Ethernet swap market will develop at a low single digit CAGR from 2023-2028. However the broader Datacenter Ethernet Change market is a various market: On-prem conventional DC deployments will probably be declining, enterprise personal clouds will develop reasonably, and public cloud deployments (exterior of GenAI) will proceed to indicate stable progress,” Butler stated.
SD-WAN impacting enterprise router market
In the meantime, the enterprise router market is in a state of transition, as it’s being subsumed to some extent into SD-WAN with its software program and cloud-based deployments, based on Butler.
“Whereas the enterprise router market will decline over the five-year forecast interval, the SD-WAN market is ready to develop by a greater than 9% CAGR to succeed in $8.1 billion by 2028,” Butler stated.
Completely different traits are impacting the service supplier (SP) routing market, Butler famous. “SP routing is down fairly a bit this yr due to weak spending by [communications service providers] generally that’s impacting many various SP networking markets, together with the SP Routing. We count on the market to stay weak for an additional quarter or two after which rebound in 2025,” Butler stated.