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It's A Small Networking World: Page 2 of 5

Networking companies have been releasing a blizzard of new products and services targeted at the fast-growing small and medium-sized business market. If you're an SMB, you're living in golden times.
October 01, 2004

Cisco wasn't alone in releasing new products for SMBs. Emulex Corporation and Brocade Communications Systems introduced a storage area network management wizard that will help drive SAN technologies in the small and midrange business market. Again, this brings to SMBs the kinds of technologies previously only available to much larger companies.

McAfee also rolled out an intrusion prevention appliance for the SMB market, and Proxim debuted new wireless entry-level access points and management tools for small and medium-sized companies.

Why the product blitz for SMBs? In a word, money. SMBs represent a sizable and fast-growing technology market. Cisco estimates that the market for SMB networking is $10 billion today, and growing at a compound annual rate of 15 to 20 percent.

So if you're in a small or medium-sized business, expect more of the same - more products with more capabilities at lower prices. If you're looking to buy networking products, it's a great time to be in a small business.

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