India networking market declines 16.4% in Q3: IDC

India's networking market which includes ethernet switch, routers, and WLAN segments witnessed a 16.4 per cent year-over-year decline in the third quarter of this year due to the negative impact of Covid-19, industry tracker International Data Corporation said on Thursday. The routing business in India declined by 40.2 per cent YoY in Q3, IDC said, adding that Cisco leads the router market with a 64.4 per cent share followed by Juniper and Nokia. With a market share of 29.8 per cent, TP-Link was the market leader in the WLAN segment during Q3, followed by D-Link due to the rapid increase in demand for consumer gateway routers. Cisco continued to dominate the ethernet switch market with a 59.8 per cent share during Q3, followed by Huawei and Hewlett Packard Enterprise, IDC said.