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In a recently published report by Dell’Oro Group, the trusted source for information about the telecommunications and networking industries, 10 Gigabit Ethernet switches will be a major driver for the overall Ethernet Switch market in the future, with annual revenues for the total market forecasted to approach $5 billion by 2011. According to the report, a large part of 10 Gigabit Ethernet revenues will initially be driven by datacenter aggregation and then later by direct server connections. “There are indications that various technology silos in the data center may start to consolidate, specifically, Ethernet, Fibre Channel, and High Performance Computing technologies,” said Seamus Crehan, Vice President of Dell’Oro Group. “10 Gigabit Ethernet is very much at the forefront of this consolidation as the early signs indicate that Ethernet could be the converged fabric of choice,” added Crehan. The report further indicates that enterprises are continuing to consolidate their data centers, and this is helped by innovations such as faster Wide Area Network (WAN) connections, WAN optimization technology, and server blades.