"Strong demand for 40GE from large cloud service providers in North America drove strong year-over-year growth in the Ethernet switch-data center market in Q115," said Alan Weckel, vice president, Ethernet Switch-Data Center Market Research, Dell'Oro Group. “Throughout the data center market, many of the trends among servers, storage and networking are similar, such as cloud providers’ shift to white box/bare metal solutions. Dell’Oro can accurately predict these trends before they expand. Predictions, such as the imminent market shift towards 25GE server access, or the recent moves by the big U.S. cloud service providers towards 40GE.”

　　The report also states that by the end of this year, cloud service providers such as Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google and Microsoft will begin migrating towards 25 and 100GE.