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What is Data Center Switching?

This market covers data center network switches and the requisite management and automation platforms for them. Data center switches are Ethernet switches installed in a data center environment intended to provide connectivity for endpoints, including servers, firewalls, and Layer 4 through Layer 7 appliances and mainframes.

Data center switches provide foundational connectivity mostly for compute resources in the data center. This is required to enable applications in support of business requirements. Emerging use cases that drive investments on data center networks include both AI and edge workloads.

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Huawei is a global provider of information and communications technology (ICT) solutions. The company's main focus is to enrich human progress through innovative technologies. Huawei aims to ensure that connectivity is a basic need, emphasizing the importance of access to ICT and the benefits it can provide to a wide audience. The firm specializes in creating customer-focused innovations and establishing strong partnerships, developing capabilities across carrier networks, enterprise, consumers, and cloud computing sections. With operations in over 170 countries, Huawei has a significant global presence. The company's objective is to digitally connect every person, home, and organization in order to achieve a comprehensive connected, intelligent world. Through this, Huawei works to narrow the digital gap, facilitating access to broadband services.

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Arista Networks predominantly deals with data-driven, client to cloud networking and is prominently focused on servicing large data center, campus, and routing environments. With an objective to provide high accessibility, agility, automation, analytics, and security, the company uses an advanced network operating stack in its platforms.

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Arista Networks predominantly deals with data-driven, client to cloud networking and is prominently focused on servicing large data center, campus, and routing environments. With an objective to provide high accessibility, agility, automation, analytics, and security, the company uses an advanced network operating stack in its platforms.

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Cisco is a company that specializes in networking technologies, particularly Internet Protocol (IP)-based solutions. It was established in 1984 by a group of computer scientists from Stanford University. As of today, Cisco has a global workforce, continuing to innovate in various fields, notably in routing and switching. Adding to its core business, the company also delves into emerging technologies including home networking, IP telephony, optical networking, security features, storage area networking, and wireless technology. Moreover, Cisco extends its expertise to offer a sweeping range of services such as technical support and advanced services. The company sells its products and services on an enterprise level, to commercial businesses, service providers, and end-users.

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Cisco is a company that specializes in networking technologies, particularly Internet Protocol (IP)-based solutions. It was established in 1984 by a group of computer scientists from Stanford University. As of today, Cisco has a global workforce, continuing to innovate in various fields, notably in routing and switching. Adding to its core business, the company also delves into emerging technologies including home networking, IP telephony, optical networking, security features, storage area networking, and wireless technology. Moreover, Cisco extends its expertise to offer a sweeping range of services such as technical support and advanced services. The company sells its products and services on an enterprise level, to commercial businesses, service providers, and end-users.

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Nokia is a technology innovator focused on bridging the gap between networks and cloud to harness the full potential of digital technology across different industries. By establishing networks that are capable of sensing, thinking, and acting, it strives to facilitate the development of future digital services and applications.

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Huawei is a global provider of information and communications technology (ICT) solutions. The company's main focus is to enrich human progress through innovative technologies. Huawei aims to ensure that connectivity is a basic need, emphasizing the importance of access to ICT and the benefits it can provide to a wide audience. The firm specializes in creating customer-focused innovations and establishing strong partnerships, developing capabilities across carrier networks, enterprise, consumers, and cloud computing sections. With operations in over 170 countries, Huawei has a significant global presence. The company's objective is to digitally connect every person, home, and organization in order to achieve a comprehensive connected, intelligent world. Through this, Huawei works to narrow the digital gap, facilitating access to broadband services.

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Cisco is a company that specializes in networking technologies, particularly Internet Protocol (IP)-based solutions. It was established in 1984 by a group of computer scientists from Stanford University. As of today, Cisco has a global workforce, continuing to innovate in various fields, notably in routing and switching. Adding to its core business, the company also delves into emerging technologies including home networking, IP telephony, optical networking, security features, storage area networking, and wireless technology. Moreover, Cisco extends its expertise to offer a sweeping range of services such as technical support and advanced services. The company sells its products and services on an enterprise level, to commercial businesses, service providers, and end-users.

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Hewlett Packard Enterprise, known as a global edge-to-cloud company, concentrates on a range of technology and innovation services to connect, protect, analyze, and act on all data and applications wherever they live, from edge to cloud, focusing on addressing business challenges through technology.

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Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise's (ALE) vision is to deliver the customized technology experiences our customers need. Our mission is to make everything connect by delivering digital age networking, communications and cloud solutions with services tailored for your business success. In the Cloud. On Premises. Hybrid.

We provide industry-specific Digital Age Networking, Communications and Cloud solutions, applications, and services to businesses of all sizes across the globe. Offering the flexibility of Cloud, On Premises and Hybrid, means that our customers can choose solutions that are tailored to their needs, and their business goals.

ALE is committed to developing technology solutions that work for our customers, connecting people, machine, things and processes, while creating a more sustainable future for all.

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Juniper Networks, a Silicon Valley-based technology company, was founded approximately two decades ago by Pradeep Sindhu, Dennis Ferguson, and Bjorn Liencres. The aim of the company is to develop innovative products and solutions specifically designed to meet the growing demands of our increasingly connected world. The primary focus of their business model is revolutionizing networking. The company's location is in Sunnyvale, California, and it boasts a strong workforce of over 9,000 employees spread across 50 different countries. The services offered by Juniper are utilized by a diverse range of service providers and enterprises across the globe. The company also serves several government agencies and higher educational institutions. Juniper believes in the information superpower of networking and fosters innovation to connect ideas and enable human potential. They aim to develop a network that is intelligent, agile, secure, and open to all vendors and network environments.

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Founded more than 20 years ago in Sunnyvale, California, Fortinet continues to be a driving force in the evolution of cybersecurity and the convergence of networking and security. Securing people, devices, and data everywhere is our mission. To that end, our portfolio of over 50 enterprise-grade products is the largest integrated offering available, delivering proven cybersecurity everywhere you need it. More than 680,000 customers trust Fortinet solutions, which are among the most deployed, most patented, and most validated in the industry.

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Juniper Networks, a Silicon Valley-based technology company, was founded approximately two decades ago by Pradeep Sindhu, Dennis Ferguson, and Bjorn Liencres. The aim of the company is to develop innovative products and solutions specifically designed to meet the growing demands of our increasingly connected world. The primary focus of their business model is revolutionizing networking. The company's location is in Sunnyvale, California, and it boasts a strong workforce of over 9,000 employees spread across 50 different countries. The services offered by Juniper are utilized by a diverse range of service providers and enterprises across the globe. The company also serves several government agencies and higher educational institutions. Juniper believes in the information superpower of networking and fosters innovation to connect ideas and enable human potential. They aim to develop a network that is intelligent, agile, secure, and open to all vendors and network environments.

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Extreme Networks, Inc. (EXTR) centers on cloud networking, aiming to facilitate progressive connections between devices, applications, and individuals. The company ventures into advanced technological applications, including aspects of machine learning, artificial intelligence, analytics, and automation to implement solutions. Across the globe, a large number of clients depend on Extreme Networks' comprehensive, cloud-influenced networking solutions. The company's services and supports are heavily relied upon to speed up digital transformation operations, thus paving the way for progress.

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Juniper Networks, a Silicon Valley-based technology company, was founded approximately two decades ago by Pradeep Sindhu, Dennis Ferguson, and Bjorn Liencres. The aim of the company is to develop innovative products and solutions specifically designed to meet the growing demands of our increasingly connected world. The primary focus of their business model is revolutionizing networking. The company's location is in Sunnyvale, California, and it boasts a strong workforce of over 9,000 employees spread across 50 different countries. The services offered by Juniper are utilized by a diverse range of service providers and enterprises across the globe. The company also serves several government agencies and higher educational institutions. Juniper believes in the information superpower of networking and fosters innovation to connect ideas and enable human potential. They aim to develop a network that is intelligent, agile, secure, and open to all vendors and network environments.

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Ruijie Networks is a network solution provider that primarily caters to telecom carriers, financial services, government agencies, education and enterprise sectors. The company's focus is enhancing the network application experience through ongoing technological advancement. Ruijie Networks offers end-to-end network solutions. The operations of the organization extend across Asia, Europe, North America, and South America with more than 50 branches globally. Ruijie Networks prioritizes innovation, investing a significant portion of their funds into research and development endeavours, particularly into high-tech pre-research. Committed to promoting the advancement in network technology, Ruijie Networks aims to bring about convergence in technology and application, advancing social progress in the process.

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Pica8 is focused on providing open networking software as an alternative to traditional networking solutions within the corporate sector. Pica8's solutions include the AmpCon Controller, designed for centralized management and automation, as well as the PicOS Software Switches, used in the domain of networking and security. These software solutions have found their use in replacing existing systems in campus and access networks across various organizations. The company's software is implemented at an expansive number of global locations.

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The company focuses on providing integral components for the integration of Software-Defined Networking (SDN) into whitebox hardware. They specialize in building high-performance solutions aimed at network virtualization, thereby enabling the transition towards open infrastructures. The primary issue they tackle is the modernization of traditional networks. For this purpose, they develop innovative network designs and prototypes to assist hardware vendors and network operators in migrating their old networks towards SDN and Network Functions Virtualization (NFV).

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Edgecore Networks Corporation operates as a subsidiary of Accton Technology Corporation, handling the production of wired and wireless networking products and solutions. These are distributed internationally via channel partners and system integrators to fulfil the needs of Data Center, Service Provider, Enterprise and Small and Medium Businesses. Edgecore primarily deals with open networking. This includes providing open Wi-Fi access points, PON OLT, packet optical transponders, and OCP-ACCEPTED™ switches. These platforms support a variety of NOS and SDN software, catering to various data center, telecommunications, and enterprise network requirements.

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Dorado Software delivers resource management, performance monitoring, and service orchestration software solutions that automate operations in converged infrastructure fabrics. The organization assists operators and IT professionals in the supervision, configuration, and management of converged infrastructures, including both physical and virtual storage, servers, networking devices, virtualized network functions, and cloud services. Dorado's comprehensive management solutions cater to multi-vendor, multi-technology environments, ensuring low Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and rapid Return on Investment (ROI), consequently mitigating risk and providing valuable solutions for service provider and enterprise IT clientele.

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Features of Data Center Switching

Updated April 2025

Mandatory Features:

  • Fabric management — software that enables multiple Ethernet switches to be managed as a single construct (a single logical entity) with a common API. Fabrics can be standards-based or proprietary in nature.

  • Centralized management — software that includes role-based access control (RBAC) to enable life cycle management of switches and NOS. This includes an administrative UI that enables provisioning, configuration management, troubleshooting, analytics and reporting. (Note: Centralized management can be embedded with fabric management.) This also includes turnkey integrations — those with commonly deployed data center or automation technologies.

  • Network operating system (NOS) software — operating system software meant for installation on a physical Ethernet switch that controls both hardware (i.e., LED, physical ports, fan power) and logical components (i.e., routing and switching).

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