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Two-and-a-Half Fold Increase Y/Y in 1Q15 for 16Gb FC HBA Shipments – Crehan Research

Representing 20% of total FC shipments

Customer transitions to higher-speed server networking are accelerating, according to the most recent server-class adapter and LAN-on-motherboard (LOM) reports from Crehan Research Inc.

Combined 10GbE and 40GbE shipments have increased more than 30% year-over-year to account for almost 30% of total Ethernet server-class adapter and LOM shipments, according to the reports.

Over the same time period, 16Gb FC HBA shipments have seen a two-and-a-half fold increase to comprise 20% of total FC shipments. These higher server networking speeds are now at inflection points in terms of adoption.

CREHAN,Data Center Networking,1Q15

Customers aremore-rapidly upgrading their server neworking capabilities to faster speeds to take advantage of the higher bandwidth capabilities of the most recent server platforms,” said Seamus Crehan, president, Crehan Research.

Currently, this is more evident in the hyper-scale, telco and high-performance computing segments, and we expect it to become evident in the general enterprise environment by the second half of this year,” he added. “Furthermore, we expect this migration to higher-bandwidth servers to in turn drive more widespread deployments of higher-bandwidth data center switches.”

In addition to the onslaught of data center networking traffic, recent factors
driving increased demand for higher server networking speeds include:

  • The introduction and ramp of Grantley-based servers, Intel’s latest micro-architecture platform.
  • Much lower data center switch prices, including some high volume top-of-rack switches priced at less than half the price of comparable prior-generation models.
  • More adoption of flash-based SSDs which have greater attach rates of faster networking speeds.

In its previous data center switch and server-class adapter and LOM reports (4Q14), Crehan Research noted that 40GbE adoption was particularly strong. The company’s current reports confirm that this strength continued in 1Q15, with 40GbE server-class adapter and LOM shipments increasing more than twenty-fold year-over-year to approach a one-and-a-half million port annual shipment run-rate.

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