Date: 03/09/2009

Broadcom continue to have a strong hold on high-speed Ethernet devices

Market research-analysis company Dell'Oro has reported through its analysis that, communications semiconductor vendor Broadcom lead the 10 Gb Ethernet controller market with 70% market share.

Broadcom got into this kind of stronghold mainly due to many other long-time semiconductor vendors in wired communication-area moving away from wired to fast growing wireless communications. The increased speeds of Ethernet enable this traditional communication interface to connect two computers nearly like a system bus, allowing cloud computing otherwise called virtual computing to flourish, and fueling the growth of Ethernet to next level.

"The results of our work with VMware helped propel Broadcom to market share leadership in 10GbE controllers," said Vinod Lakhani, Senior Director & General Manager of Broadcom's High-Speed Controller line of business. "Our market share leadership, as validated by Dell'Oro research, shows our ability to quickly respond to market demands for feature-rich 10GbE controller technology, and our ability to quickly establish a leadership position by enabling IT departments worldwide with optimized networking communications in virtualized environments."

The second ranked vendor in this segment is Intel with 15.7 percent market share as per Dell'Oro research.

The other active vendors in this market include, Marvell, Aquantia, and Vitesse.