A large variety of well-established and newly-emerging businesses that concentrate on new product innovations make up the router and switch industry. Major businesses like Cisco, Huawei, Ericsson, and Alcatel-Lucent dominate the market and are actively investing in R&D operations to promote product innovation and stay one step ahead of their rivals. With the increasing demand in the worldwide industry, market participants in the router and switch market may expect to have attractive growth prospects in the future. 'Cisco Systems', 'Huawei Technologies', 'Juniper Networks', 'Nokia Networks', 'Hewlett Packard Enterprise', 'Dell Technologies', 'Extreme Networks', 'Ericsson', 'Arista Networks', 'Brocade Communications Systems', 'Netgear', 'ZTE Corporation', 'TP-Link Technologies', 'D-Link Corporation', 'Allied Telesis', 'Fortinet', 'Palo Alto Networks', 'Check Point Software Technologies', 'F5 Networks', 'Riverbed Technology'