2013 Readers' Choice Awards — Best Networking Vendor

To no one’s amazement, Cisco ran off with the gold medal for best networking vendor too, winning greater than 54.2 percent of the ballots. That’s exactly 7 percent less than the dominant (albeit slowly declining) 61.2 percent share of the global Ethernet switch market Cisco owned at the close of 2012, according to data from IDC. In the more competitive silver medal jousting, Netgear came out ahead of D-Link Corp. by 27 votes.