IDC's Worldwide Datacenter Network QView provides a comprehensive quantitative view of leading datacenter networking technologies. Specifically, this QView provides quarterly datacenter network revenue based on IDC's research into the following markets: Ethernet switches, Fibre Channel switches, InfiniBand switches, and application delivery. The data leverages IDC's datacenter networking qualitative and quantitative expertise to quantify by quarter technology spending in the datacenter. The technology forecasts developed for this QView takes into consideration IDC's global expertise on key datacenter infrastructure trends.

The Worldwide Datacenter Network QView service provides total market size and vendor share for the following technology areas and segmentations. Measurement for this QView is in manufacturing factory revenue.

Technologies and Subtechnologies:

• Ethernet switches
• Application delivery controllers (Layer 4–7 switching)
• WAN application delivery
• InfiniBand switching
• Fibre Channel switching

Segmentations:

• Vendor
• Customer type: Enterprise and service provider
• Ethernet switching by speed: Revenue and ports
• Ethernet switching by form factor: Revenue and ports

• Worldwide

This service is delivered on a quarterly basis with tools such as pivot tables. The delivery schedule for this QView is as follows:

• Within nine weeks after the close of each calendar year quarter, clients receive an updated Excel pivot table.
• An annual subscription includes current quarter estimates and historical sizing from 1Q09 to the current quarter.
• An annual subscription includes datacenter network five-year forecast updated quarterly.