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SAN FRANCISCO, April 5, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Data center customers deployed seven million more server-class Ethernet Network Interface Card (NIC) ports in 2020 than in 2019, resulting in a new record high for this market, according to a recent report from Crehan Research. Most of the new deployments were 25 gigabit Ethernet (GbE), 50GbE and 100GbE NICs. This, in combination with a strong increase in SmartNIC adoption, drove revenue growth well above the year s robust shipment growth – see accompanying figure. Even with these strong results in 25GbE, 50GbE and 100GbE NICs as well as SmartNICs, Crehan s report indicates that these technologies are still mostly in the early stages of adoption and should have numerous years of growth ahead.