At the same time, sales of Gigabit and Terabit routers are up sharply. These significant changes are uncovered in IDC's quarterly LAN tracking service, QView.
Major changes are afoot, starting in the first quarter of the new millennium.
Terabit routers are starting to be shipped in quantity, and in general the year is starting off with unfettered purchase rates of high-end LAN switches and routers. This is particularly true of high-speed products. Shipments of both Gigabit LAN switches and Gigabit routers are surging. Declining prices of Gigabit switch ports are stimulating this growth in the LAN switch area. Purchases of Gigabit and Terabit routers jumped to 2,307 units, of which 49 were Terabit routers.