H3C Recognized as a Niche Player in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Data Center Switching

H3C Recognized as a ​Niche Player in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Data Center Switching

Recently, Gartner^® has released its 2025Magic Quadrant™ for Data Center Switchingreport, recognizing H3C as a ​Niche Player. This serves as a powerful testament to H3C's technological acumen and market clout within the data center networking area. Notably, H3C demonstrates exceptional strength in high-performance network switching, intelligent O&M, and Ethernet-based AI fabrics. It firmly establishes H3C's global competitiveness, showcasing the company's astute strategic positioning, relentless product innovation.

How did H3C break through among so many manufacturers?

Firstly, H3C demonstrated industry leadership by being among the first to launch 800G switches, marking a breakthrough in data communication efficiency and enabling the synergistic development of AI computing power and network infrastructure. The H3C S9827 series switches offer 64×800G ports with full line-rate forwarding capability, perfectly meeting AIGC data centers' demanding requirements for high performance, low latency, and exceptional reliability.

A single POD can support networking scales exceeding 4,000 800G ports or 8,000 400G ports.

Secondly, H3C has introduced the groundbreaking Zero-Congestion next-generation DDC S12500AI series switches. Featuring Dynamic-Connectivity, non-blocking traffic forwarding, and superior scalability, our switches are ideally suited for intelligent computing networks, distributed computing, and cloud-native environments.

The S12500AI series implements GPU network card decoupling through cell switching technology, with a single POD supporting up to 9,216×400G or 4,608×800G ports.

As an active member of the Ultra Ethernet Consortium (UEC), H3C contributes to advancing Ethernet technology toward "lossless, high-performance" standards through ultra-Ethernet transmission protocols. This initiative helps establish an open ecosystem, reduces AI/HPC network construction costs, accelerates large model training, and potentially challenges NVIDIA's dominance in highspeed networking.The S9800/12500 series switches incorporate comprehensive lossless network features, including Flexible Global Load Balancing (FGLB) and global lossless traffic scheduling, ensuring optimal link utilization for network-wide traffic forwarding.

Tolly Group conducted performance evaluations using NVIDIA's Collective Communication Library (NCCL) with 64 GPUs, testing the Llama3 large language model across different network architectures. Both the NCCL and Llama3 benchmark results demonstrate that H3C's S9800/S12500 series switches (RoCE) deliver performance comparable to InfiniBand while maintaining consistent user experience. When considering performance, openness, and cost-effectiveness together, the H3C S9800/12500 series switches emerge as an excellent choice for AIGC intelligent computing scenarios.

With an eye on the future, H3C will continuously intensify its efforts in technical research advancement and product innovation within the data center network field. H3C is set to boosting all industries through the of network technology, crafting a solid infrastructure essential for their data intelligent transformation.