HP Beats Out Cabletron for No. 2 Spot In Worldwide Modular 10/100 Switch Port Market; HP Switches Achieve 12.8 Percent Market Share in Second Calendar Quarter.PALO ALTO Palo Alto, city, California Palo Alto (păl`ō ăl`tō), city (1990 pop. 55,900), Santa Clara co., W Calif.; inc. 1894. Although primarily residential, Palo Alto has aerospace, electronics, and advanced research industries. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 8, 1999-- Hewlett-Packard Company today announced that it beat out Cabletron for the No. 2 position in the worldwide modular 10/100 switch port market, based on ports shipped. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. a report issued by Dell'Oro Group, a Portola Valley, Calif.-based research firm, HP ProCurve Layer 2 Ethernet modular 10/100 switch ports captured 12.8 percent of the market for the second calendar quarter of 1999. Dell'Oro predicts that the overall Layer 2 10/100 Ethernet switching A device that connects clients and servers to each other in an Ethernet network. See switched Ethernet. segment will continue to be the fastest growing segment of the market, an estimated $6.6 billion business in 1999 of the $10.2 billion market and 64 percent of the Ethernet LAN (Local Area Network) A communications network that serves users within a confined geographical area. The "clients" are the user's workstations typically running Windows, although Mac and Linux clients are also used. market. Modular 10/100 switches, an estimated $4 billion in annual revenue, make up the bulk of that segment. According to the report, HP was also the fastest-growing vendor in Layer 2 Gigabit Ethernet An Ethernet standard that transmits at 1 Gbps. Used mostly to connect high-end workstations and servers as well as for network backbones, Gigabit Ethernet transmits full duplex from point to point using switches and half duplex in a shared environment (CSMA/CD) using a hub. switching, growing 205 percent vs. an average vendor growth of 86 percent. As a result, HP moved up to the No. 4 position from the No. 6 position in the first calendar quarter of 1999. This growth was fueled by HP's full line of Gigabit solutions. To complement the Gigabit-over-fiber solution, HP was the first networking vendor to announce a product for Gigabit-over-copper technology at an aggressive price point of $299 -- one-third the price of competitors' connections. "HP captured increased market share in every Ethernet category in the second calendar quarter of 1999," said Jan Bell, worldwide marketing manager of HP's ProCurve Networking. "We are happy that customers see the quality and value in HP ProCurve Networking products." HP ProCurve Switches HP's award-winning line of HP ProCurve switches offers solutions for networks of any size. HP workgroup switches offer dedicated performance and scalable growth at desktop prices. HP interconnect switches offer the highest level of performance and flexibility. All HP ProCurve switches feature HP Proactive Networking, which provides network managers with the control they need to enable increased uptime and performance. HP customers can choose from 10/100/1000Mbps switching options Switching options A sequence of transactions in which exercise of one option creates one or more additional options. Investment-disinvestment, entry-exit, expansion-contraction, and suspension-reactivation decisions are switching options. in both stackable and modular form In mathematics, a modular form is a (complex) analytic function on the upper half-plane satisfying a certain kind of functional equation and growth condition. The theory of modular forms therefore belongs to complex analysis but the main importance of the theory has traditionally factors. About HP ProCurve Networking HP ProCurve Networking is a leading supplier of networking products, including Ethernet hubs and switches, routing switches and network-management applications, that allow customers to build proactive networks. Information on HP ProCurve Networking can be found on the World Wide Web at http://www.hp.com/go/procurve. About HP Hewlett-Packard Company -- a leading global provider of computing and imaging solutions and services for business and home -- is focused on capitalizing on the opportunities of the Internet and the proliferation proliferation /pro·lif·er·a·tion/ (pro-lif?er-a´shun) the reproduction or multiplication of similar forms, especially of cells.prolif´erativeprolif´erous pro·lif·er·a·tion n. of electronic services. HP plans to launch Agilent Technologies This article needs sources or references that appear in reliable, third-party publications. Alone, primary sources and sources affiliated with the subject of this article are not sufficient for an accurate encyclopedia article. as an independent company by mid-calendar 2000. Agilent consists of HP's test and measurement, semiconductor products, chemical analysis and healthcare solutions businesses, and has leading positions in multiple market segments. HP has 123,500 employees worldwide and had total revenue of $47.1 billion in its 1998 fiscal year. Information about HP, its products and the company's Year 2000 program can be found on the World Wide Web at http://www.hp.com. |
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