Indian networking market grew 14.8%

New Delhi: The Indian networking market which includes ethernet switch, routers and WLAN segments witnessed a 14.8 per cent year-over-year (YoY) growth in Q1 2019, an IDC report said on Monday.

Cisco continued to dominate the ethernet switch market with 53.4 per cent share in Q1 2019, followed by Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) and Huawei. Cisco also led the router market with 59.5 per cent market share, followed by Nokia and Huawei.

HPE became the market leader in the WLAN segment during Q1 2019 with a market share of 20.8 per cent, followed by Cisco and TP-Link.

"Organisations that are looking to digitally transform themselves are in the compulsion to adopt software-based technologies to improve manageability.

Technologies like SD-WAN can derive very high levels of flexibility and agility by transferring the manageability to a software," said Sudharsan Raghunathan, Senior Market Analyst, Enterprise Networking, IDC India.