The Industry Abhors a Vendor Vacuum

摘要

Over the last few months I've been focusing on the huge changes taking place in the public network space. Meanwhile, the LAN switching market has been seeing some significant changes of its own, so let's draw a bead on this moving target. Big picture? Gone are the days when the Big 3 were Cisco Systems Inc. (San Jose, Calif.), Bay Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.), and 3Com Corp. (Santa Clara).