Switches and routers remain the workhorses of the networking world. Viewed through that lens, 2024 offered a mixed bag of results for the networking market. There were numerous areas of decline, particularly in the enterprise market. Worldwide Ethernet enterprise switch revenues declined 14.1% year-over-year in the second quarter of 2024 to $10.2 billion. After a relatively sluggish year, multiple segments of the switch and router networking markets are due for a solid year of growth. Data center switches, in particular, are set for an AI-driven climb. is there a day switches will be completely redundant ?

