Network equipment industry price index trend

I. Price Trends of China's Network Equipment Industry Network equipment price index slightly decreased by 0.17 points This week, the network equipment price index was 97.04 points, a slight decrease of 0.17 points from last week, maintaining a stable trend. From the past eight weeks, the network equipment price index fluctuates slightly between 95-100 points, reaching the highest point of eight weeks in the fourth week of July, at 99.51 points, 4.47 points higher than the lowest point in the first week of July.

From the six major product lines involved in the network equipment industry, the average price of switches and routers decreased this week, with the average price of routers dropping by 3.4%, the largest drop. The average price of the other four product lines rose slightly.

(Figure) Price Trends of Network Equipment Industry (20140623-20140811)

Second, the Chinese server market price index trend Server price index rose slightly 0.76 points This week, the server price index was 76.34 points, slightly up 0.76 points last week, ending the downward trend for four consecutive weeks. From the past eight weeks, the server price index showed a trend of rising first and then falling, and it dropped for four consecutive weeks in July and fell to the lowest point in eight weeks.

(Figure) Trends in the price index of the server market (20140623-20140811)

Sample description: This week's trend analysis of the price index of the network equipment industry involved a total of six product lines of servers, switches, routers, wireless routers, wireless internet cards, and wireless network cards. The total number of statistical products was 3,189, of which 512 products weighted Jingdong and Amazon's price. 97 companies involved (the number of manufacturers does not repeat the statistics).

Note: The ZDC price index is the most influential index reflecting the trend of price fluctuations in the Chinese IT market. The index was first publicly released on February 21, 2011, the base period was January 1, 2011, and the base period index was set at 100.