Figures from analyst IDC show a 32.7 per cent annual increase in revenues for Ethernet switches.
Meanwhile, the Ethernet routing market also saw growth at the more modest rate of 11 per cent year-on-year.
Data centre and cloud computing installations helped to drive investments into high-speed equipment, particularly 10 Gbps devices.
Over the second quarter, more than a million ports supporting this level of bandwidth were shipped.
Rohit Mehra, director of enterprise communications infrastructure at IDC, says: "The second calendar quarter builds on the performance of the first, which is what the market delivered, showing strong year-over-year growth from the slowdown the market witnessed in 2009."
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