Source: Gartner (July 2013) |
2014
In Gartner 2014 June's Magic Quadrant for Wired and Wireless LAN Infrastructure report, for the 3rd year in a row, Cisco, Aruba and HP Networking are positioning at Leaders quadrant, which are same as last two years. On May 19, 2015, HP completed the acquisition of Aruba Networks for a transaction value of $3 billion. In Gartner's 2015's report, there will be only two vendors showing in the Leaders quadrant.Huawei, Dell and D-link lost their challengers position and become niche players. Aerohive, Acatel-Lucent Enterprise, Ximus and Avaya are in visionaries quadrant, which means they have innovated in one or more of the key areas of access layer technologies within the enterprise (e.g., convergence, security, management or operational efficiency).
2014 Magic Quadrant for the Wired and Wireless LAN Access Infrastructure |
2013
2013 Magic Quadrant for the Wired and Wireless LAN Access Infrastructure |
2012
2012 Magic Quadrant for the Wired and Wireless LAN Access Infrastructure |
2011
2011 Magic Quadrant for the Wired and Wireless LAN Access Infrastructure |
2010
2010 Magic Quadrant for the Wired and Wireless LAN Access Infrastructure |
Reference:
1. 2014 Magic Quadrant for the Wired and Wireless LAN Access Infrastructure2. Magic Quadrants and MarketScopes: How Gartner Evaluates Vendors Within a Market