GigaOm Radar for Data Center Switching v5

The market for data center switching has seen multiple transformations over the last decade due to the consolidation of data center operations into a smaller set of service providers and a subsequent reorientation toward hybrid environments. In the early 2010s, most large enterprises and even midsize businesses handled their workloads on-prem or in their own data centers. Since the mid 2010s, these workloads have slowly been migrated to data centers hosted by third-party providers. 

As we progress into the mid 2020s, organizations are deliberately opting for hybrid environments. This shift is the result of cloud-first approaches displaying their own set of challenges, mainly related to cost. The deliberate choice of a hybrid strategy is important because organizations often unwillingly find themselves in a hybrid environment anyway when they employ cloud services while still running on-prem workloads.

A second trend results from today’s “application-first” orientation, which positions networks as a support function, reframing the approach from a bottom-up view (network to application) to a top-down view (application to network). Combining development operations (DevOps) principles with network operations (NetOps), NetDevOps entails remote provisioning, configurations, and networking policies that support application performance. 

The latest trend that affects data center network architectures and target customers is AI workloads. These workloads behave differently from other enterprise applications and will need to find a home in cloud-native environments, in colocation environments, and in on-prem data centers. This requirement positions infrastructure service providers, colocation providers, and large organizations as the main buyers of new data center switching solutions.

To respond to this need, data center switches are evolving to enhance their capabilities around three main themes: 

• Hardware switching performance with respect to throughput and port speeds

• Software advancements for network operating systems (NOSs) to handle larger volumes and bursty traffic

• Tools for managing the design, deployment, and operations of new and larger data center networks

This evolution includes the deployment and management of switches using modern techniques targeted toward application performance.

This is our fifth year evaluating the Data Center Switching space in the context of our Key Criteria and Radar reports. This report builds on our previous analysis and considers how the market has evolved over the last year. 

This GigaOm Radar report examines 10 of the top data center switching solutions and compares offerings against the capabilities (table stakes, key features, and emerging features) and nonfunctional requirements (business criteria) outlined in the companion Key Criteria report. Together, these reports provide an overview of the market, identify leading data center switching offerings, and help decision-makers evaluate these solutions so they can make a more informed investment decision.

GIGAOM KEY CRITERIA AND RADAR REPORTS

The GigaOm Key Criteria report provides a detailed decision framework for IT and executive leadership assessing enterprise technologies. Each report defines relevant functional and nonfunctional aspects of solutions in a sector. The Key Criteria report informs the GigaOm Radar report, which provides a forward-looking assessment of vendor solutions in the sector.

To help prospective customers find the best fit for their use case and business requirements, we assess how well data center switching solutions are designed to serve specific target markets and deployment models (Table 1).

For this report, we recognize the following market segments:

• Cloud services provider: These can be either public or private cloud service providers that operate large data centers and offer infrastructure-as-a-service, platform-as-a-service, and software-as-a-service products.

• Colocation services provider: These providers offer data center space and power for organizations to run their hardware appliances. Colocation providers need to provide networking services such as direct internet access and cross connects to help organizations communicate among racks of servers.

• Communications service provider: These are telecommunications service providers that offer connectivity and other IT services, often operating their own data centers for their internal use cases or to sell cloud-like services.

• Large enterprise: Larger organizations typically require support for large and business-critical projects in complex architectures.

• Regulated industries and public sector: These refer to central and local government agencies and businesses operating in regulated industries such as finance and healthcare.

• Content delivery network (CDN)/edge provider: These organizations host hundreds of small data center-like points of presence closer to end users, increasingly offering compute and storage capabilities.

In addition, we recognize the following deployment models:

• Bare metal hardware: These are just hardware appliances with no NOS installed, allowing customers to bring their own NOS.

• Standalone NOS: Some vendors can offer their NOS separately, and customers are able to supply their own bare metal hardware.

• Proprietary hardware and NOS: These appliances are made up of a vendor’s proprietary hardware running a proprietary NOS, which creates an integrated appliance.

• Proprietary hardware and third-party NOS: This model consists of vendors that offer their proprietary hardware running a prepackaged third-party NOS.

• Third-party hardware and proprietary NOS: This model comprises vendors that use third-party bare metal hardware and run their own NOS on top.

Table 1. Vendor Positioning: Target Market and Deployment Model

Table 1 components are evaluated in a binary yes/no manner and do not factor into a vendor’s designation as a Leader, Challenger, or Entrant on the Radar chart (Figure 1). 

“Target market” reflects which use cases each solution is recommended for, not simply whether that group can use it. For example, if an SMB could use a solution but doing so would be cost-prohibitive, that solution would be rated “no” for SMBs.

All solutions included in this Radar report meet the following table stakes—capabilities widely adopted and well implemented in the sector:

• Managed switches

• Support for 100 G ports

• Full API access

• Integrated hardware-software solutions

• High availability and fault tolerance

• Switching and routing functionality

Tables 2, 3, and 4 summarize how each vendor in this research performs in the areas we consider differentiating and critical in this sector. The objective is to give the reader a snapshot of the technical capabilities of available solutions, define the perimeter of the relevant market space, and gauge the potential impact on the business.

• Key features differentiate solutions, highlighting the primary criteria to be considered when evaluating a data center switching solution

• Emerging features show how well each vendor implements capabilities that are not yet mainstream but are expected to become more widespread and compelling within the next 12 to 18 months.

• Business criteria provide insight into the nonfunctional requirements that factor into a purchase decision and determine a solution’s impact on an organization

These decision criteria are summarized below. More detailed descriptions can be found in the corresponding report, “GigaOm Key Criteria for Evaluating Data Center Switching Solutions.”

Key Features

• Switching and routing optimization: In addition to the switching and routing protocols required as part of the table stakes, which include spanning tree protocol (STP), open shortest path first (OSPF), and intermediate system to intermediate system (IS-IS), solutions are evaluated in terms of whether they can leverage routing optimization techniques and algorithms to improve performance.

• Network design tooling (Day 0): This key feature assesses the vendor’s capabilities to support network design for capacity increases and greenfield and brownfield deployments. It can include features such as automated device discovery and mapping, testing, and validation of simulated instances.

• Deployment and provisioning (Day 1): This criterion evaluates the solution’s capabilities for streamlining new deployments, using techniques such as zero-touch provisioning (ZTP) to remotely and automatically onboard new devices by loading startup configuration files, adding the devices into a system database, and propagating policy changes to relevant devices.

• Network operations and management (Day 2+): Carrying forward from the Day 0 and Day 1 activities, this criterion evaluates the switching solution’s capabilities to enable Day 2+ activities. This consideration includes ongoing support activities, such as reporting, performance assurance, troubleshooting, and diagnostics. As with design and deployment, Day 2 activities can also be automated to achieve no-touch or light-touch network management.

• Hardware portfolio: This key feature evaluates a vendor’s range of hardware and the physical capabilities of its devices. A high score indicates a wide range of physical formats and varied performance features across the whole portfolio. 

• Traffic security: This feature assesses a switching solution’s capabilities for enhancing traffic security, such as traffic filtering, policies, encryption, inspection, and analysis.

• NetDevOps suitability: This criterion looks at how well a solution combines DevOps with NetOps practices (NetDevOps) and brings the network even closer to the application by integrating network provisioning and configuration into software development lifecycle (SDLC) and CI/CD pipelines. 

Table 2. Key Features Comparison 

Emerging Features

• Large language model (LLM) copilots: LLMs can be integrated in data center switching solutions to surface information about the state of the network in natural language rather than through CLI commands or by navigating a user interface. LLMs can be consumed through the CLI, where administrators can issue commands without needing to know vendor-specific syntax. 

• AI hardware: This metric evaluates the hardware and hardware features that can support AI workloads in the data center. 

• AI networking protocols and optimization: This criterion refers to protocols and optimization techniques that handle elephant flows in a data center and can include RDMA, congestion control, and types of load balancing.

• AI monitoring: This refers to the solution’s ability to monitor data center network traffic during the training stage of AI models. 

• AI blueprints and validated designs: This feature evaluates a vendor’s validated design for AI data centers that can help customers follow predefined instructions for their preferred architectures. 

• Microservices NOS: This item assesses a solution’s use of a microservices-based architecture approach, which refers to building the NOS using containerized microservices that fulfill network functions, often using Kubernetes for orchestration. This approach breaks down a traditional monolithic NOS into separate containerized network functions like routing, policy, and telemetry.

Table 3. Emerging Features Comparison 

Business Criteria

• Flexibility: A solution’s flexibility is evaluated in terms of factors such as the availability of deployment models and interoperability with other networking solutions.

• Scalability: As a crucial element of data center switching solutions, scalability must be assessed with two aspects in mind: raw switching power and management features.

• Reliability: This criterion assesses the solution’s capabilities for failovers, traffic rerouting, troubleshooting and repairs, and disaster recovery in case of hardware failures or other incidents.

• Partner ecosystem: A vendor’s partner ecosystem is assessed in terms of the breadth of its relationships with hardware and software providers, channels to market, managed service providers, and out-of-the-box integrations. 

• Support: In addition to their hardware and software solutions, vendors are also evaluated with regard to how well they provide a set of services (professional, managed, and technical support) to help customers deploy and operate the networking solution.

• Cost transparency: This metric considers the initial price of the hardware, the license for the software (either perpetual or one-time), and any support fees. It also looks at further costs for deploying and operating the switches, which will depend on the network team’s skill set and the solution’s power consumption and automation capabilities.

Table 4. Business Criteria Comparison 

The GigaOm Radar plots vendor solutions across a series of concentric rings with those positioned closer to the center being judged as having the most complete solution. The chart characterizes each vendor on two axes—balancing Maturity versus Innovation and Feature Play versus Platform Play—while providing an arrowhead that projects each solution’s expected evolution over the coming 12 to 18 months.

Figure 1. GigaOm Radar for Data Center Switching

As you can see in Figure 1, most of the vendors are positioned in the Platform Play half, which indicates that most solutions have the breadth to make them suitable for both greenfield and brownfield deployments across data center operators. However, the positioning along the Maturity/Innovation axis is determined by the scores on emerging technologies, which, in this report, are mainly focused on AI-specific capabilities, such as AI-specific hardware and routing optimization. This means that vendors whose solutions score higher on these features are positioned in the Innovation half and are better choices for organizations that are building or optimizing data centers for AI training and inference use cases.

In reviewing solutions, it’s important to keep in mind that there are no universal “best” or “worst” offerings; every solution has aspects that might make it a better or worse fit for specific customer requirements. Prospective customers should consider their current and future needs when comparing solutions and vendor roadmaps.

INSIDE THE GIGAOM RADAR

To create the GigaOm Radar graphic, key features, emerging features, and business criteria are scored and weighted. Key features and business criteria receive the highest weighting and have the most impact on vendor positioning on the Radar graphic. Emerging features receive a lower weighting and have a lower impact on vendor positioning on the Radar graphic. The resulting chart is a forward-looking perspective on all the vendors in this report, based on their products’ technical capabilities and roadmaps.

Note that the Radar is technology-focused, and business considerations such as vendor market share, customer share, spend, recency or longevity in the market, and so on are not considered in our evaluations. As such, these factors do not impact scoring and positioning on the Radar graphic.

For more information, please visit our Methodology.

Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise: OmniFabric  

Solution Overview
The Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise OmniFabric for data center is built on the OmniSwitch suite, which consists of OS6900, OS9900, and the upcoming OS6920 family. These run the AOS network operating system and are managed with OmniVista, which provides a unified UI and configuration and operations model for provisioning, monitoring, and automation across campus and data center environments.

AOS and OmniVista act as a common control and management plane across devices. 

Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise is positioned as a Challenger and Fast Mover in the Maturity/Platform Play quadrant of the data center switching Radar chart.

Strengths
Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise scored well on a number of decision criteria, including:

• Deployment and provisioning (Day 1): The OmniSwitch solution is managed through the OmniVista Network Management System (NMS), which offers ZTP, template-driven configuration, infrastructure-as-code (IaC) integrations, and intent-based provisioning to accelerate onboarding, ensure configuration consistency, and reduce manual intervention across distributed environments.

• Network operations and management (Day 2+): OmniVista offers robust Day 2+ capabilities, including features such as real-time and historical performance monitoring, fault management, and capacity reporting across the entire network fabric; performance assurance tools that measure SLA adherence using KPIs such as link quality, jitter, and packet loss; and end-to-end topology visualization with color-coded health indicators, alarms, and contextual drill-downs.

• Hardware portfolio: Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise's hardware portfolio includes both modular switches and fixed-form switches suitable for leaf-spine and core-distribution-access, as well as top-of-rack and end-of-row. Port speeds range from 1/10/25/40/100G line cards up to 400G on the OS6920.

Opportunities
Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise has room for improvement in a few decision criteria, including:

• Switching and routing optimization: While the solution supports features such as multipath routing, quality of service, load balancing, and traffic management, it could improve by offering MPLS-TE, segment routing, multicast, and traffic shaping.

• Network design tooling (Day 0): The solution can work with third-party network simulation tools like GNS3, but it does not currently offer these capabilities natively.

• Traffic security: While the solution supports traffic filtering via hardware ACLs L1–L4, and 802.1X/MAC auth, it does not currently offer stateful filtering or anomaly detection algorithms, traffic pattern analysis, DDoS protection, or threat signature recognition.

Purchase Considerations
Hardware, software, and management can be purchased separately or as project‑specific bundles. Licensing and feature tiers depend on the platform, SKU, and requirements. Network as a service (NaaS) is also offered as an additional purchasing option, consistent with ALE’s broader consumption-based strategy.

Use Cases
Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise’s data center switching solution is suitable for a range of use cases, such as greenfield and brownfield deployments across multiple verticals, multisite EVPN fabrics, private cloud, Ethernet front ends for AI and analytics workloads, and data center interconnect, with planned support for AI training and inference in 2026.

Arista: DCS-7000 Series

Solution Overview
Founded in 2004, Arista is a key player in the data center switching space, delivering an open, standards-based, elastically scalable automated switching solution. Arista's data center switching portfolio includes the 7000 series switches and the Extensible Operating System (EOS).

CloudVision is Arista’s single point of control for the data center switching hardware and EOS. It enables automated provisioning, change management, and compliance, as well as network-wide telemetric data capture, analysis, and recording. Arista offers CloudVision as an on-prem virtual or physical appliance or as a cloud-hosted service. 

Arista is positioned as a Leader and Fast Mover in the Innovation/Platform Play quadrant of the data center switching Radar chart.

Strengths
Arista scored well on a number of decision criteria, including:

• Network operations and management (Day 2+): Arista offers a variety of features that ease network operations, such as real-time state streaming for network telemetry and analytics; cognitive analytics using ML models to generate network recommendations and insights; turnkey automation for Day 2 configuration management and network-wide change control, such as automated upgrades, network rollback, and network snapshots; and NetDevOps workflows to integrate into a broader continuous integration (CI) pipeline.

• NetDevOps suitability: Arista EOS was built from the ground up for native programmability. It was developed as a single binary image that is deployable across all Arista physical and virtual switching platforms. EOS offers a variety of interfaces through which to interact with the platform, such as CLI, eAPI (JSON-RPC-based API with libraries for Ruby, Python, and Go), OpenConfig, YANG models with gNMI, RESTCONF, and NETCONF support, and EOS SDK for native component development.

• Hardware portfolio: Arista offers well-defined and comprehensive capabilities for its hardware portfolio. The DCS-7000 series switch portfolio includes both fixed and modular systems, with port speeds ranging from 1 to 800 GbE, supporting leaf-spine, top-of-rack, and end-of-row architectures. In addition to the integrated hardware and software, Arista also offers EOS for use on a select range of bare metal switches from Quanta Technologies (QCT), EdgeCore, and Celestica in 10/25/40/100 GbE connectivity options.  

Opportunities
Arista has room for improvement in a few decision criteria, including:

• Traffic security: Arista offers capabilities such as IPSec, MACsec, and access control lists (ACLs) but does not natively offer stateful or stateless filtering capabilities. 

• Network design tooling (Day 0): While Arista CloudVision offers a comprehensive network design toolset including a digital twin, it could implement an SDLC-like mechanism for continuous testing and validation environments. 

• AI blueprints and validated designs: Arista provides cluster builders with topology advice based on their requirements, including templated designs and fully customized topologies, but does not currently offer validated designs or out-of-the-box architectures such as rail-optimized designs or storage networks. 

Purchase Considerations
The vendor has an extensive portfolio of networking products that goes beyond data center switching. CloudVision and EOS, which are core components of the data center switching solution, can also be used for cloud networking, and this can help enterprises unify on-prem and cloud workloads.

Use Cases
Arista’s data center switching solution is suitable for a range of use cases, such as greenfield and brownfield deployments for multiple verticals, including cloud services providers, colocation providers, and large enterprises. 

Cisco: Nexus Series

Solution Overview
Cisco continues to be a household name in the networking space, and its data center networking solution displays comprehensive capabilities across all decision criteria defined in this report. 

In recent years, Cisco has made an effort to normalize operations by consolidating and unifying NX-OS and ACI under a common automation, management, and AI analytics platform called Nexus Dashboard. The vendor ranks high on network design tooling automation because Nexus Dashboard supports a declarative control system through which end users can state their preferred configuration while the platform creates appropriate infrastructure policies. The solution also offers a network simulation environment.

NX-OS is Cisco’s NOS, which provides the capability to use foundational Layer 2 and 3 technologies as well as modern technologies such as VXLAN with a border gateway protocol‒Ethernet VPN (BGP-EVPN) control plane, segment routing, multiprotocol label switching (MPLS), and automation. With a strong focus on features for AI networking, Cisco scores high on emerging features. 

Cisco is positioned as a Leader and Outperformer in the Innovation/Platform Play quadrant of the data center switching Radar chart.

Strengths
Cisco scored well on a number of decision criteria, including:

• Deployment and provisioning (Day 1): Cisco’s Nexus Dashboard reduces provisioning and deployment times through automation and offers graphical operational visibility of topology, network fabric, and infrastructure to lessen troubleshooting time and effort. Further, it can eliminate configuration errors and automate ongoing changes in a closed loop with templated deployment models and configuration compliance alerting with automatic remediation. It also provides a real-time summary of the health and topology of fabrics and switches.

• NetDevOps suitability: Cisco’s data center switching solution provides automation via an application-driven policy model, including centralized visibility with real-time application health monitoring and support for automation tools such as Chef, Ansible, and Puppet. The NX-API supports a common programming language across Nexus switches. Python scripts, Bash shells, and Linux containers can also be used to develop customer applications.

• Hardware portfolio: The Cisco Nexus platform consists of fixed and modular switches and delivers automation, programmability, and real-time visibility. Switches from Cisco's Nexus 3000, 7000, and 9000 series are deployed according to standard architectural guidelines ranging from one to 800 GbE. 

Cisco was classified as an Outperformer given its strong delivery in the last year and developments around the report’s emerging features, which center on networking for AI training and inference.

Opportunities
Cisco has room for improvement in a few decision criteria, including:

• Traffic security: Cisco offers features such as IPSec, MACsec, and ACLs, but it should natively implement more capabilities in the Nexus portfolio, such as threat detection that includes anomaly detection algorithms, traffic pattern analysis, DDoS protection, and threat signature recognition. It is worth noting that Cisco supports these features through other products in its portfolio.

• Network operations and management (Day 2+): While Cisco demonstrates robust capabilities for managing network operations, it does not currently offer self-healing or auto-remediation capabilities as a strategic decision to keep humans in the loop.

• Microservice-based NOS: NX-OS is a monolithic appliance rather than one that employs a microservices-based architecture. Microservices-based network operating systems can offer advantages in terms of reliability and fault tolerance, although NX-OS and ACI operating systems do support containers to run internally and functions such as enhanced ISSU. 

Purchase Considerations
Cisco has an extensive portfolio of networking products that goes beyond data center switching. Products such as Cisco SD-WAN and Cisco MultiCloud Defense are also used for cloud networking, which can help enterprises unify on-prem and cloud workloads.

Cisco offers a range of data center networking software subscriptions (3-, 5-, and 7-year term subscriptions in three tiers) so prospective customers can choose the model that best meets their needs.

Use Cases
Cisco’s solutions are highly scalable and suitable for a wide range of target customers, including infrastructure service providers, colocation providers, and large enterprises. The solutions are suitable for both greenfield and brownfield deployments.

Dell Technologies: PowerSwitch Series

Solution Overview
Dell Technologies has long been prominent in the enterprise IT space, catering to the data center switching market through the PowerSwitch S and Z series. 

Dell Technologies’ data center switching appliances can be deployed as integrated hardware and software solutions, standalone NOSs, or bare metal appliances. PowerSwitch Open Networking switches represent the company’s latest disaggregated hardware and software solutions for data centers. 

With respect to software, the vendor offers a finely tuned, enterprise-ready, and globally supported distribution of an open source NOS, which it calls Enterprise SONiC Distribution by Dell Technologies. Its solution is suitable for both greenfield and brownfield data center deployment. SmartFabric Manager for SONiC is Dell’s network management for automating deployment and management of data center network fabrics via blueprints, automated discovery, and a centralized tool for network operations.

Dell Technologies is positioned as a Challenger and Fast Mover in the Maturity/Platform Play quadrant of the data center switching Radar chart.

Strengths
Dell Technologies scored well on a number of decision criteria, including:

• Network design tooling (Day 0): Fabric Design Center (FDC) is a cloud-based application that automates the planning, design, and deployment of network fabrics that power Dell Technologies’ compute, storage, and hyperconverged infrastructure solutions. The FDC also translates business intent into network designs and switch configurations; generates logical and physical network views for network planning and topology decisions; provides PowerSwitch distinguishing details such as a bill of materials, network diagrams, and cabling diagrams; and simplifies and automates new fabric deployments. 

• Hardware portfolio: The PowerSwitch product portfolio includes a wide range of hardware formats, with data center solutions offering 10/25/40/50/100/400/800 GbE deployments in top-of-rack, middle-of-row, and end-of-row architectures. With high-density ports ranging from 25 to 800 GbE and a broad array of Layers 2 and 3 features, the S and Z series meet the growing needs of today's data centers.

• NetDevOps suitability: The solution is highly interoperable and open, as the PowerSwitch series supports alternate operating systems such as VMware NSX. The solution leverages the Open Network Install Environment (ONIE) in PowerSwitch for zero-touch installation of alternate NOSs. Dell Technologies also offers the Enterprise SONiC Distribution, a commercial version of the open source software with management enhancements, testing, and validation across select PowerSwitch models. Additionally, Dell has begun supporting select third-party hardware switches with the Enterprise SONiC solution to provide customers full control over their technology stack.

Opportunities
Dell Technologies has room for improvement in a few decision criteria, including:

• Network operations and management (Day 2+): The solution provides features such as reporting, performance assurance, troubleshooting, and diagnostics, but it does not support advanced features such as multivendor management, self-healing capabilities, or comparing in-production traffic and network behavior with the intent used to declare or configure networks to identify configuration inconsistencies, faults, or other deviations that may lead to network issues. 

• Traffic security: The solution does not currently offer native IPSec or MACsec encryption, traffic filtering, or traffic analysis. 

• AI networking protocols and optimization: While the solution implements RoCEv2, Dynamic Load Balancing with Adaptive Routing, and Enhanced User-defined Hashing, adding features such as GPUdirect RDMA, Edge Queuing Datagram Service (EQDS), and High Precision Congestion Control (HPCC) would strengthen its capabilities.

Purchase Considerations
Dell Technologies’ networking solutions are particularly suitable for brownfield deployments and heterogeneous environments, as its products are highly interoperable, flexible, and support a variety of deployment models. Dell Enterprise SONiC is offered via three different bundles: Cloud, Enterprise, and Lite. All are available with a 1-, 3-, or 5-year subscription.

Use Cases
Dell Technologies caters to large enterprises, colocation providers, infrastructure service providers, telecommunications services providers, AI fabrics,  and content delivery networks, as its SONiC-based software layer is scalable, interoperable, and suitable for large heterogeneous environments.

Extreme Networks: 8000 Series

Solution Overview
Extreme Networks is a networking equipment and software company focused on supporting enterprise, data center, and cloud environments, delivering end-to-end hardware and software solutions, including switches, wireless access points, network management software, analytics platforms, automation tools, and edge-to-cloud solutions.

Extreme Network’s data center switching portfolio includes the 8720, 8730, 8520, and 8820 series switches. Across these, customers can choose from 32 to 80 port switches from 1 to 400 GbE. This suite of switches run Extreme ONE OS, a microservices-based network operating system with full in-service maintainability, which is entirely API-driven for both management and programmability. These switches are capable of running VM-based apps alongside the switch OS. ExtremeCloud Orchestrator (XCO) is an orchestration application that provides a unified graphical user interface and APIs for fabric-wide life cycle management.

Extreme Networks is positioned as a Challenger and Fast Mover in the Maturity/Platform Play quadrant of the data center switching Radar chart.

Strengths
Extreme Networks scored well on a number of decision criteria, including:

• Network design tooling (Day 0): The vendor offers a Digital Twin feature that can virtually stage devices before deploying them. Users can create a digital copy of network infrastructure in a digital sandbox environment in the cloud to assess if the new configuration or device would cause problems prior to deployment. Users can test and operationalize a new network or expand network infrastructure rapidly, then push the tested changes into production.

• Network operations and management (Day 2+): The solution supports features such as anomaly detection implemented at multiple levels, including the local device, installed location, associated devices, and across multiple sites where applicable to enable dynamic baselining. The solution integrates with platforms such as VMware vCenter, OpenStack (via ML2 plugin), and Microsoft SCVMM to provide a single point of configuration for the entire fabric network.

• NetDevOps suitability: Extreme ONE OS is a Linux-based virtualized operating system with advanced switching features and support for REST APIs with the YANG data model, Python, RESTCONF, and NETCONF. It is highly interoperable and open and can work well with hypervisor providers, storage solutions, and security partners.​ Extreme Networks can support proprietary or third-party applications to be hosted on its own switches and appliances, which offers better support for security, monitoring, troubleshooting, or extended network functionality without a separate hardware device. 

Opportunities
Extreme Networks has room for improvement in a few decision criteria, including:

• Switching and routing optimization: Extreme OS ONE supports switching and routing optimization capabilities such as VRF, multicast, multipath, ECMP, QOS, and policing, but it does not currently support MPLS or SR-MPLS, traffic engineering, traffic shaping, or traffic management.

• Deployment and provisioning (Day 1): While the solution’s interfaces offer an easy way to deploy, provision, and automate single or multiple data center IP Fabric networks, there is room for further improvement. Adding intent-based networking capabilities would allow users to declare and automatically provision new network configurations.

• Hardware portfolio: Extreme Networks’ hardware products are suitable for leaf-spine architectures and support port speeds of up to 400 GbE and throughputs up to 2 Tbps. However, the 8000 series does not currently include modular switches, 800GbE ports, or form factors other than 1U and 2U.

Purchase Considerations
Extreme Networks offers a wide range of networking products beyond data center switching that are suitable for delivering end-to-end solutions for enterprise networking.

Use Cases
Extreme Networks’ solutions are suitable for both greenfield and brownfield deployments for large enterprises, SMBs, cloud service providers, colocation service providers, and edge services providers.

Fortinet: FortiSwitch

Solution Overview
Fortinet is an established security infrastructure provider that offers a data center switching solution with the FortiSwitch hardware suite.

FortiSwitch provides campus cores and data center switches that support up to 48 ports in a compact one-rack-unit form factor, with speeds of up to 100 GbE. FortiSwitch appliances integrate with Fortinet’s security products and offer a unified management interface to help enterprises establish a robust foundation for data center infrastructure.

FortiSwitch can be managed either as a standalone solution or in FortiLink mode. FortiLink is a proprietary management protocol that integrates and centralizes management between a FortiGate Next-Generation Firewall and the FortiSwitch Ethernet switching platform. With FortiLink, FortiSwitch turns into a logical extension of FortiGate, unifying the management of both the data center switching and security functions. This specific use case for the solution positioned Fortinet in the Feature Play half of our Radar chart. 

Fortinet is positioned as an Entrant and Forward Mover in the Maturity/Feature Play quadrant of the data center switching Radar chart.

Strengths
Fortinet scored well on a number of decision criteria, including:

• Traffic security: FortiOS enforces granular security policy control that spans segmentation, access governance, and threat prevention directly into networking platforms deployed at enterprise branches and distributed sites. FortiSwitch is controlled by FortiOS, an integrated security-oriented NOS. Rather than offering a traditional network OS that delivers mainly infrastructure connectivity services, FortiOS bundles it with advanced capabilities like next-generation firewall, intrusion protection, antimalware, and virtual private networking with routing, switching, and software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) overlays.

• Switching and routing optimization: Fortinet’s dynamic routing protocols address most Layer 3 and 4 enterprise switching needs, with support for protocols such as RIPv1 and v2, OSPF v2 and v3, IS-IS, BGP4, multicast, and NAT IPv4-6. 

• Network operations and management (Day 2+): FortiSwitch is accessible through both FortiCloud and on-prem management, centralized management consoles that provide a single view encompassing both the local area network (LAN) and security. The solution can be deployed using zero-touch provisioning. 

Opportunities
Fortinet has room for improvement in a few decision criteria, including:

• NetDevOps suitability: While users can interact with Fortinet products via REST APIs, scripts, CLI, and Jinja templates, the solution does not maintain network configuration states and policy intent in a centralized, git-style, version-controlled repository for tracking infrastructure changes. It does not test infrastructure changes pre- and post deployment in isolated sandbox environments or test  configurations from development to staging to production environments.

• Hardware portfolio: Fortinet has a limited portfolio that consists only of data center switches in a one-rack-unit form factor with 48 ports and speeds of up to 100 GbE.

• Deployment and provisioning (Day 1): Even though the solution supports ZTP, it does not support features such as configuration files or scripting via languages such as Python, JSON/XML, REST APIs, NETCONF, commit scripts, OpenConfig/YANG, gRPC, and Thrift, nor does it support infrastructure provisioning through integrations with IaC tools such as Terraform.

Fortinet was classified as a Forward Mover given its few year-over-year developments and a slow release cadence. The vendor does not currently offer AI-specific capabilities.

Purchase Considerations
Fortinet’s data center switching solution should be considered by organizations with an existing Fortinet footprint. Robust integrations with other products such as FortiGate and shared management platforms make FortiSwitch a strong contender. 

Use Cases
Fortinet’s solution is suitable for large enterprises, SMBs, and edge service providers. Organizations can deploy the Fortinet data center switching solution in both greenfield and brownfield scenarios, as the solution can be implemented in existing environments, and the full Fortinet portfolio can be used for full new DC deployments.

HPE Aruba Networking: CX Series

Solution Overview
In 2015, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) acquired Aruba Networks, a provider of networking infrastructure. In January 2024, HPE announced its plans to acquire Juniper Networks; the acquisition closed in July 2025. This evaluation focuses on HPE Aruba Networking’s data center switching solution, which consists of the CX series. Juniper Networks is evaluated separately. 

HPE Aruba’s portfolio of switching hardware includes a range of appliances. The portfolio offers CX 8000 and 9000 series switches that provide flexibly sized form factors ranging from 12 to 48 ports of 10/25/100/400 GbE, suitable for leaf-and-spine data center networks. The CX 10000 series switch, codeveloped with AMD Pensando, is the industry's first system that integrates a hardware-accelerated programmable processor (Pensando P4) to deliver stateful services inline, at scale, with wire-rate performance. HPE Artuba Networking is suitable for both greenfield and brownfield DC deployment. 

HPE Aruba Networking CX 10040 is the latest addition to the CX portfolio, offering 8 Tbps of ASIC switching capacity with interface configurations supporting 32x100G and 6x400G connectivity in a 2U form factor designed to support east-west traffic demands and accelerate application performance. The switch includes 1.6 Tbps of L4 stateful inspection natively integrated; a 4.8 Tbps encryption engine to support MACsec2; and encryption that is flexibly assignable to ports, securing traffic without compromising speed or scalability.

HPE Aruba Networking is positioned as a Leader and Fast Mover in the Maturity/Platform Play quadrant of the data center switching Radar chart.

Strengths
HPE Aruba Networking scored well on a number of decision criteria, including:

• Traffic security: The solution offers a Distributed Services Switch, which provides stateful firewall services at every top-of-rack configuration. The firewall service can be managed through Aruba Fabric Composer to configure the firewall and set up segmentation and microsegmentation. Deploying the distributed services architecture CX 10000 switches as top-of-rack, leaf, or access in the data center enables 800 G of stateful services for east-west traffic without needing to route traffic through security appliances. CX 10000 can define network segments and microsegments and provides IPsec encryption. The CX 10000 can export firewall logs and industry-standard, non-sampled IPFIX records. Administrators can set intervals for flow sampling as short as one second.

• Deployment and provisioning (Day 1): HPE Aruba Networking’s Fabric Composer is a software-defined orchestration solution for simplifying and accelerating day-to-day operations and for provisioning leaf-spine design across rack-scale compute and storage infrastructure. Using the AOS-CX API, Fabric Composer orchestrates the CX series switches into a single entity (the fabric), which significantly simplifies operations and troubleshooting by automating various configuration and lifecycle event processes.

• Network operations and management (Day 2+): AOS-CX delivers a consistent operator experience, simplifies network design, and enables management tasks across data centers and remote edge infrastructure. In addition to the standard CLI, AOS-CX has an intuitive WebUI that simplifies and standardizes tasks while shortening the learning curve for network engineers who are new to HPE Aruba DC switches. Aruba also offers the Network Analytics Engine for Day 2+ operations as an integral part of the AOS-CX NOS. 

Opportunities
HPE Aruba Networking has room for improvement in a few decision criteria, including:

• Network design tooling (Day 0): The solution does not provide advanced features such as synthetic traffic generation or digital twins, though it does offer automated device discovery and mapping and mapping of existing network topologies.

• Hardware portfolio: HPE Aruba Networking provides a good range of hardware products that support port speeds of up to 400 G, but it does not currently offer appliances with 800G ports and has fewer form factor options available.

• Switching and routing optimization: The solution delivers MPLS, QOS, ECMP, traffic shaping, and multicast, but it could implement features such as adaptive routing and switching, which changes routing or switching decisions based on congestion, link failures, or other dynamic variables; traffic prioritization, queuing and hierarchical queuing; traffic policing; traffic marking, remarking, and honoring; and fabric congestion management.

Purchase Considerations
HPE Aruba Networking is currently the only vendor that offers data center switching solutions in an as-a-service consumption model. Purchasing data center switching in a NaaS model can open up possibilities for more flexible and agile solutions.

It’s worth noting that upon completion of the Juniper Networks acquisition, the data center switching portfolio of the two vendors overlap, so we expect a consolidation of the two solutions across the NOS, supporting management software and hardware products.

Use Cases
HPE Aruba Networking’s data center switching solutions are suitable for both greenfield and brownfield deployments. The vendor has good support for AI workloads in the data center, and the solution can be deployed by cloud services providers, colocation services providers, large enterprises, and SMBs.

HPE Juniper Networking: EX and QFX Series

Solution Overview
Founded in 1996, Juniper Networks is one of the household names in the data center networking space, offering a comprehensive portfolio of hardware and software networking products. In January 2024, HPE announced its plans to acquire Juniper Networks; the acquisition closed in July 2025. This report evaluates Juniper Networks’ data center switching solution separately from that of HPE Aruba Networking. 

The switching hardware is powered by the Junos NOS, which can run Juniper’s entire portfolio of switching, routing, and security products. The EX, QFX, ACX, and PTX series switches deliver an extensive routing stack. These switches can be deployed in a number of validated network designs and fabrics, including IP fabric with EVPN-VXLAN and Juniper MC-LAG for Layer 2 and Layer 3 networks, giving customers complete architectural flexibility. Its multivendor, intent-based networking and automation platform, Juniper Apstra, manages Juniper switches as well as switches from Cisco, Arista, and Dell Technologies. 

The QFX5240 line offers up to 800 GbE interfaces to support AI Data Center Networking deployments with AI/ML workloads and other high-speed, high-density, spine-and-leaf IP fabrics where scalability, performance, and low latency are critical. 

HPE Juniper Networking is positioned as a Leader and Fast Mover in the Innovation/Platform Play quadrant of the data center switching Radar chart.

Strengths
HPE Juniper Networking scored well on a number of decision criteria, including:

• NetDevOps suitability: Junos OS is a modular NOS built on the principles of open programmability and microservices. It provides clear separation among the control, management, and data planes and supports a number of open source automation frameworks, including Puppet, Chef, Ansible, and Salt. Furthermore, Junos REST APIs allow users to connect securely to switches and execute remote procedures. By using the REST API Explorer GUI, users can experiment conveniently with any REST API and explore various formats and options, including JSON. 

• Hardware portfolio: The Juniper data center switch portfolio includes multiple integrated products, such as the EX, QFX, ACX, and PTX, with Broadcom and Juniper custom silicon ASICs, which are designed to meet the needs of data centers, SMBs, large enterprises, cloud providers, and communication service providers. Its hardware portfolio supports data port speeds from 10 to 800 GbE and can support leaf-spine, core-distribution-access, top-of-rack, and end-of-row architectures. 

• Deployment and provisioning (Day 1): Apstra is intent-based networking software that automates and validates data center network design, deployment, and operation from Day 0 through Day 2+. This intent-based solution allows network operators to automate entire data centers from end to end, integrating tasks such as group-based policies and enterprise-scale analytics and operations.

Opportunities
HPE Juniper Networking has room for improvement in a couple of decision criteria, including:

• Traffic security: Features such as IPSec, MACsec, and ACLs are included, but the solution does not currently provide native stateful filtering or threat detection capabilities, including anomaly detection algorithms, traffic pattern analysis, DDoS protection, and threat signature recognition. These features can be achieved by integrating Apstra with HPE Juniper's SRX to synchronize network and security policies for threat detection and isolation.

• AI monitoring: The solution does not currently support features such as high-frequency telemetry that collects counters at microsecond sampling intervals and interface ingress and egress buffer occupancy.

Purchase Considerations
HPE Juniper Networking has a comprehensive networking portfolio that includes both cloud networking and container networking capabilities. Juniper can deliver end-to-end solutions across enterprise and cloud networks.

It’s worth noting that upon completion of the acquisition by HPE, the data center switching portfolio of the two vendors overlap, so we expect a consolidation of the two solutions across the NOS, supporting management software, and hardware products. The HPE acquisition should provide many opportunities, given HPE’s stronger distribution channels and as-a-service delivery models.

Use Cases
The solutions can be deployed for large enterprises, colocation providers, infrastructure service providers, and communications services providers. They are suitable for both brownfield and greenfield deployments. 

Nokia: IXR Series

Solution Overview
Nokia has been a key provider of telecommunications networking infrastructure, having expanded into the data center networking market with the IXR series, which provides a comprehensive portfolio of integrated hardware and software switching solutions that focuses on NetOps methodology.

The IXR series runs the Service Router Linux (SR Linux) NOS. SR Linux is an open, extensible, and resilient NOS for data center fabrics and switching, built on an unmodified Linux kernel. 

The solution offers good network management and operations, with the Event-Driven Automation (EDA) platform constantly monitoring the fabric by leveraging telemetry, comparing it with various intents, and analyzing the results to find configuration inconsistencies, faults, or other deviations that may lead to network issues. With a strong focus on features for AI networking, Nokia scores high on emerging features. 

Nokia is positioned as a Leader and Outperformer in the Innovation/Platform Play quadrant of the data center switching Radar chart.

Strengths
Nokia scored well on a number of decision criteria, including:

• NetDevOps suitability: The platform is designed as an operational toolkit and management system to improve and scale operations across the entire operational lifecycle of the fabric. Due to highly automated design, deployment, and operations processes, Nokia also ranks high on support for Day 0, 1, and 2+ activities. A differentiating feature is Nokia’s NetOps Development Kit (NDK), which enables application developers to take advantage of the underlying model-driven architecture of SR Linux. With the NDK, data center teams can develop new applications and operational tools in the language of their choice and get deep programmatic access to and control over the entire interconnect router (IXR) switching system.

• Hardware portfolio: The solution’s comprehensive hardware portfolio (the 7250 IXR product suite) consists of high-performance, high-density, modular platforms designed for data center spines and data center WAN connectivity deployments. Similarly, the 7220 IXR suite provides a high-performance, high-density, fixed-configuration platform for leaf-spine deployments in data centers. These two series of hardware products feature multiple chassis variants that support port speeds from 1 GbE up to 800 GbE and planned support for 1.6 TbE in 2026. Additionally, the 7215 IXS provides reliable out-of-band management for data center servers and spine and leaf nodes.

• Deployment and provisioning (Day 1): The solution offers a comprehensive network design tool that enables network engineers to provide a few parameters, such as the number of racks and the number of servers per rack, after which the system autogenerates the rest of the configuration based on Nokia-certified design templates. The result is a standard BGP-based IP fabric design with details such as IPv4/IPv6 addressing, BGP configuration, and cable maps. This design can be validated using the digital sandbox before being deployed to the data center fabric.

Nokia was classified as an Outperformer given its strong feature delivery in the last year, which resulted in strong scores across the report’s key and emerging features. 

Opportunities
Nokia has room for improvement in a few decision criteria, including:

• LLM copilots: While Nokia offers an LLM integration to process operators’ queries using natural language, the current implementation of SR Linux GPT uses OpenAI’s LLM (GPT) and requires the user to provide their own OpenAI API key. This means the LLM service is cloud-hosted by OpenAI. There are plans to support customer-hosted LLMs in the future, but as of now, it is not hosted by Nokia or the customer SR Linux GPT.

• AI hardware: While Nokia offers a solid set of AI networking hardware features (such as modular switch systems with very high bandwidth, deep buffers, and scheduled fabric; shallow-buffer fixed-form-factor switches; specialized merchant silicon, such as the Broadcom Tomahawk 5 chipset; and ASIC architectures that maximize buffers), the solution is fully Ethernet-based and does not support Infiniband.

• AI networking protocols and optimization: Nokia supports a wide range of AI-specific techniques, including packet spraying, ECN, PFC, and RoCE v2, but it does not currently support adaptive routing, global load balancing (GLB), edge queuing datagram service (EQDS), or high precision congestion control (HPCC).

Purchase Considerations
Nokia’s solution can be easily integrated into existing heterogeneous deployments, making it easy for organizations to ramp up their Nokia-based data center network deployments. Solutions are priced based on the products selected. Each product within the solution has its own pricing.

Use Cases
Nokia’s solutions are suitable for both greenfield and brownfield deployments. The solution can be deployed by large enterprises, infrastructure service providers, colocation providers, and edge service providers. When combined with Nokia EDA,  which complements Nokia SR Linux, the solution can enable scalable streaming telemetry with contextual views and insights, intent-based fabric automation across the entire lifecycle of operations, and CI/CD for NetOps using digital twin and pipeline philosophies.

NVIDIA: Spectrum-X Networking Platform

Solution Overview
Since its inception as a graphics accelerator company specializing in video game development in the 1990s, NVIDIA has evolved into a key player in processing acceleration with composable, disaggregated resources that serve cloud and edge applications. After acquiring Mellanox Technologies and Cumulus Networks, NVIDIA consolidated its place in the data center switching market.

For software, its Spectrum series supports network disaggregation, allowing the use of a variety of NOSs, such as NVIDIA Cumulus Linux, NVIDIA Onyx, SONiC, and native Linux OS. Cumulus Linux, based on Debian Linux, is a principal choice for using the Spectrum range. It is a modern NOS designed to build, automate, and operate web-scale networks both affordably and efficiently. 

An integrated Spectrum hardware switch with Cumulus Linux software can offer advanced network virtualization, including single-pass VXLAN routing and zero-touch network provisioning. Moreover, it allows users to simulate a multiple-switch configuration in the NVIDIA Air infrastructure simulation platform to verify the choice of hardware purchased before it's installed on-site and to configure an entire network within minutes. 

With a strong focus on features for AI networking, NVIDIA scores high on emerging features, while that strong focus on AI networking reduces its suitability for non-AI deployments.

NVIDIA is positioned as a Challenger and Fast Mover in the Innovation/Feature Play quadrant of the data center switching Radar chart.

Strengths
NVIDIA scored well on a number of decision criteria, including:

• Network design tooling (Day 0): NVIDIA Air, a cloud-hosted network simulation platform, can replicate a real-world production environment. NVIDIA Air is used to create a digital twin of IT infrastructure to replicate full-scale network architectures with multiple NOSs and validate configurations, features, and automation code.

• Network operations and management (Day 2+): NVIDIA NetQ provides real-time data for troubleshooting, visibility, and automated workflows and the ability to compare prior network configurations with post-change configurations to eliminate any risk of disruption via preventive validation. NetQ is an intelligent network validation tool that provides real-time visibility and troubleshooting to simplify unit testing development and accelerate adoption. In addition, NetQ provides operational intelligence and insight into the health of data centers (from the container to the switch and port), supporting a NetOps approach.

• AI-specific hardware portfolio: The NVIDIA Spectrum Ethernet switch family includes a comprehensive switch and software portfolio spanning from 1 GbE to 800 GbE. NVIDIA Spectrum switches are ideal for both building AI fabrics connecting NVIDIA GPUs and connecting end-to-end cloud data center networks. The Spectrum switches work in conjunction with NVIDIA Cumulus Linux and NVIDIA Pure SONiC as NOSs, along with NVIDIA NetQ for validation and the NVIDIA Air simulation platform.

Opportunities
NVIDIA has room for improvement in a few decision criteria, including:

• Traffic security: While NVIDIA’s switching solutions support encryption via IPSec and MACsec, they do not currently offer stateful or stateless traffic filtering, DDoS protection, or traffic analysis natively. 

• Deployment and provisioning (Day 1): While NVIDIA offers provisioning capabilities such as ZTP, configuration files, scripting via Python and JSON, REST APIs, OpenConfig/YANG models (via gNMI), gRPC, and infrastructure-as-code tooling through Ansible, it does not support NETCONF, commit scripts, a native Terraform integration, or provisioning based on golden images.

• Hardware portfolio: NVIDIA’s portfolio of hardware products offers a range of form factors with port speeds of up to 800 G, but it does not currently include devices such as modular chassis, WAN routers, or power over Ethernet (PoE) switches.

Purchase Considerations
NVIDIA’s extensive Spectrum-X portfolio of networking and computing solutions is noteworthy, with the vendor having developed AI-specific chips and infrastructure management solutions. This places NVIDIA in a prominent position for enterprises looking to support AI workloads in their data centers.

Use Cases
NVIDIA’s Spectrum-X data center networking solution is suitable for greenfield deployments and is mainly targeted at large enterprises and infrastructure service providers. The vendor has extensive networking capabilities to support AI workloads.

Most data center switching developments are taking place in the software space around NOSs and with management platforms. Increases in the number and complexity of data centers, along with the distributed computing infrastructure for edge platforms, require switching solutions to support smooth design, deployment, and operations.

Openness and interoperability are other trends that need to be addressed by switch vendors. While integrated hardware and software solutions have been the norm and offer a consistent experience and a single point of contact, the resulting solution may be more expensive and may lock in businesses with a single vendor. In contrast, disaggregated solutions may be more flexible and cost-efficient but might initially require additional skills and longer learning curves for the network operations team.

We expect that an increasing number of deployments will feature disaggregated solutions, leading to a more extensive networking ecosystem. Market share will become more evenly distributed among vendors because enterprises will have more opportunities to mix and match solutions depending on their investment capabilities and technical requirements.

All vendors featured in this report can provide reliable and performant data center switching solutions, regardless of whether they offer integrated or disaggregated solutions. The key aspect to consider when selecting a vendor is its capabilities for supporting the deployment and management of increasingly complex environments that are geographically distributed.

Especially when looking at edge deployments, it is important to keep costs manageable. Costs are associated not only with the price of hardware or software licenses but also with the number of network operators required to maintain the network. We therefore expect trends in the data networking space to focus on consistent management platforms and NOSs, while hardware can be either integrated or bare metal appliances.

*Vendors marked with an asterisk did not participate in our research process for the Radar report, and their capsules and scoring were compiled via desk research.

For more information about our research process for Radar reports, please visit our Methodology.

Andrew Green is an enterprise IT writer and practitioner with an engineering and product management background at a tier 1 telco. He is the co-founder of Precism.co, where he produces technical content for enterprise IT and has worked with numerous reputable brands in the technology space. Andrew enjoys analyzing and synthesizing information to make sense of today's technology landscape, and his research covers networking and security.

GigaOm provides technical, operational, and business advice for IT’s strategic digital enterprise and business initiatives. Enterprise business leaders, CIOs, and technology organizations partner with GigaOm for practical, actionable, strategic, and visionary advice for modernizing and transforming their business. GigaOm’s advice empowers enterprises to successfully compete in an increasingly complicated business atmosphere that requires a solid understanding of constantly changing customer demands.

GigaOm works directly with enterprises both inside and outside of the IT organization to apply proven research and methodologies designed to avoid pitfalls and roadblocks while balancing risk and innovation. Research methodologies include but are not limited to adoption and benchmarking surveys, use cases, interviews, ROI/TCO, market landscapes, strategic trends, and technical benchmarks. Our analysts possess 20+ years of experience advising a spectrum of clients from early adopters to mainstream enterprises.

GigaOm’s perspective is that of the unbiased enterprise practitioner. Through this perspective, GigaOm connects with engaged and loyal subscribers on a deep and meaningful level.

© Knowingly, Inc. 2026 "GigaOm Radar for Data Center Switching" is a trademark of Knowingly, Inc. For permission to reproduce this report, please contact sales@gigaom.com.