Networking Brand Leaders – 2019

Ethernet switches designed to deliver 100 to 400 GbE connectivity on a single port. In this newly-added category, IT pros cast their votes for Cisco as Market, Price, Performance, Reliability, Service & Support, and Innovation leader. Juniper filled in the number...

Ethernet adapters designed to deliver 25,40,50, and/or 100 GbE connectivity. For the second year in a row, Mellanox gained the titles for Market, Performance, Reliability, Service & Support and Innovation leader. However, Broadcom unseated Mellanox for this year’s...

Ethernet switches designed to deliver 25,40,50, and/or 100 GbE connectivity on a single port. Cisco—for the second time in as many surveys—pulled off a clean sweep in 25-100Gb Ethernet Switches, as the Market, Price, Performance, Reliability, Service & Support,...

Server adapters used to connect a server to a Fibre Channel SAN. Broadcom and their Emulex brand HBAs dominated across the board for Fibre Channel HBAs for the third year in a row; winning all six awards: Market, Price, Performance, Reliability, Service & Support...

Fibre Channel switches designed to deliver Fibre Channel connectivity. In a tight race, the Brocade switches from Broadcom emerged as Market Price, Performance, Reliability, and Innovation leader. Cisco tied with Broadcom/Brocade for Service and Support leader. Market...

A network device that helps web server performance by performing tasks such as: compression, cache, connection multiplexing, application layer security, SSL offload, and content switching; combined with basic server load balancing. ADCs are usually placed between the...

Edge switches used to consolidate server cabling at the top of a data center rack to Ethernet LANs, NAS, iSCSI SANs and FCoE SANs. Another new survey category, Cisco was the clear winner in all segments for Multi-Protocol (Ethernet/FC) Storage Switches, as IT...

Products that enable you to quickly detect, diagnose, and resolve network performance problems & outages. SolarWinds won Market leader for the second year in a row, while also claiming Price and Performance. Cisco—second place Market leader—claimed the Reliability...

Commercially-available bare metal switches with choice of merchant switch chip from Broadcom, Intel, or Mellanox; plus choice of merchant switch OS from Arista, Cumulus, Big Switch, or Pica8. Dell EMC headed up all six leader categories in Open Networking Switch for...

Merchant switch OS used on white box switches. While the top three companies of Open Networking Switch OS were close in all categories, Big Switch came out on top as the Market leader, also claiming Price, Reliability, and Innovation leader. Arista snagged Performance...

Packet capture and network recording appliances which include hardware and software. In this new survey category, Riverbed surpassed NetScout as the overall Market, Price, Performance, Reliability, Service & Support and Innovation leader, with third-place going to...

Allows IT managers to consolidate multiple physical networks, divide a network into multiple segments or create software-only networks between virtual machines (VMs) or containers. First time category, VMware pulled out a complete victory as Market, Price,...

Software that helps web server performance by performing compression, cache, connection multiplexing, application layer security, SSL offload, and content switching; combined with basic server load balancing. Servers running ADC software is usually placed between the...