FC Swith Market Approaches $1.3 Billion in 1H12

In a newly-released SAN quarterly report by Dell’Oro Group, the source for market information about the networking and telecommunications industries, FC SAN market sales approached $1.3 billion for first half of 2012, the highest level since the 2008 downturn.  

"The story this quarter has really been one of vendors enjoying higher average selling prices. FC switch revenue grew year-over-year on essentially flat port shipments, driven by increased prices due to migration to faster speeds and new products," said Casey Quillin, senior analyst at Dell’Oro Group.

"The quarter saw both Cisco and QLogic post sequential revenue growth of close to 20%. While Brocade’s revenue was down slightly quarter-over-quarter, they realized double digit revenue growth over the same quarter last year. This quarter proves that customers continue to invest considerable capital in FC to support mission-critical storage applications," added Quillin.

The report also discusses alternative SAN technologies, such as FCoE. Vendors currently shipping FCoE enabled equipment include Brocade, Cisco, Emulex, HP, Juniper, and QLogic.