H3C Named in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Data Center Switching

Gartner has released its 2025Magic Quadrant™ for Data Center Switchingreport, recognizing H3C as a ​Niche Player. We believe this highlights H3C’s technological prowess and market influence in data center networking, particularly in high-speed Ethernet switching, intelligent O&M, and AI-driven network architectures. It underscores H3C’s strategic positioning, product innovation, and service capabilities as globally competitive.

With the accelerated deployment of intelligent computing infrastructure, network performance has become a critical factor in unlocking computing potential. H3C leverages over two decades of enterprise networking expertise to address key challenges in intelligent computing networks. Through continuous technological iteration and product upgrades, H3C has built a comprehensive capability system encompassing intelligent network architecture design, AI scenario adaptation, and full lifecycle O&M. These advancements provide open, efficient network support for intelligent computing centers, driving significant improvements in computing efficiency.

Application-Driven Data Center (AD-DC) Solution: A Cornerstone of Recognition
H3C’s AD-DC Solution, featured in both theMagic Quadrantand theCritical Capabilities for Data Center Switchingreport, is designed to tackle challenges in next-generation high-performance data centers. The solution integrates the ​SeerEnginenetwork automation engine and ​SeerAnalyzerintelligent analytics platform to establish an “awareness-diagnosis-remediation” intelligent O&M closed-loop, enhancing network visibility and fault handling across three core areas:

Hardware Flexibility: AD-DC supports multi-rate ports from 25G to 800G, compatible with box-type, chassis-based, and innovative DDC (Disaggregated Distributed Chassis) architectures, ensuring adaptability across diverse scenarios.

Performance Optimization: Achieves 95% link utilization through proprietary PathNav load balancing technology, enabling elastic scaling from thousands to tens of thousands of GPUs to meet ultra-large-scale AI training cluster demands.

Cost Efficiency: Deep software-hardware synergy reduces total lifecycle costs for customers.

The AD-DC solution has been widely deployed across government, large enterprises, and financial institutions. It continues to drive efficiency upgrades in computing infrastructure.

In the era of intelligent computing, H3C remains committed to innovation, advancing core technologies in high-speed networking, traffic optimization, reliability, and energy efficiency. H3C aims to deliver smarter, scalable, and sustainable networking solutions while fostering a collaborative global ecosystem for intelligent computing.

Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Data Center Switching, 31 March 2025

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