The hurt was felt directly in its switch business, its most important and largest unit accounting for about a third of the company's total sales. Here Juniper Networks (NYSE: JNPR) is significantly cutting into market share with the help of strategic partnerships with IBM, among other vendors. Other companies like F5 Networks (Nasdaq: FFIV), Riverbed Technology (Nasdaq: RVBD), and Aruba Networks are also growing faster and taking market share in a variety of growth networking markets that Cisco has struggled to keep up in.