{"id":14643,"date":"2019-09-26T17:26:53","date_gmt":"2019-09-26T21:26:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/?p=14643"},"modified":"2022-10-14T18:27:46","modified_gmt":"2022-10-14T22:27:46","slug":"cisco-leading-sd-wan-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/cisco-leading-sd-wan-market.html","title":{"rendered":"Cisco Leading SD-WAN Market"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The SD-WAN market is still doing amazingly well – based on customer wins and funding. We just reported <\/a>Bigleaf Networks got $21M in funding<\/a>, 128 Technology got <\/a>$30M and Aryaka <\/p>\n\n\n\n

$50M.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This important segment of the enterprise networking market will grow at a 30.8% compound annual growth rate (CAGR) from 2018 to 2023 to reach $5.25B, according to IDC’s SD-WAN Infrastructure Forecast<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“SD-WAN continues to be one of the fastest-growing segments of the network infrastructure market, driven by a variety of factors. First, traditional enterprise WANs are increasingly not meeting the needs of today’s modern digital businesses, especially as it relates to supporting SaaS apps and multi- and hybrid-cloud usage. Second, enterprises are interested in easier management of multiple connection types across their WAN to improve application performance and end-user experience,” said Rohit Mehra<\/a>, vice president, Network Infrastructure<\/a>. “Combined with the rapid embrace of SD-WAN by leading communications service providers globally, these trends continue to drive deployments of SD-WAN, providing enterprises with dynamic management of hybrid WAN connections and the ability to guarantee high levels of quality of service on a per-application basis.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The SD-WAN infrastructure market continues to be highly competitive with sales increasing 64.9% in 2018 to $1.37 billion. Incumbent networking vendors have leveraged their technological strengths and installed bases in routing and WAN optimization sales to lead the market, while numerous start-ups remain active. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The latest IDC market share report <\/a>ranks Cisco in first place for 2018 market share worldwide for SD-WAN Infrastructure, which was up 64.0 percent last year. Cisco, according to the report, captured 46.4 percent of the total SD-WAN market last year or $637.7M, an increase of 55.4 percent year-over-year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trailing Cisco was the “rest of market” segment, which included a mix of emerging SD-WAN players such as CloudGenix, Fortinet, and Versa Networks. The \u201crest of market\u201d segment captured 20.8 percent of the SD-WAN market in 2018 or $285.9M, up 86.1 percent year-over-year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The rapid growth in the market fueled by cybersecurity, business continuity and the move to cloud and DX. Finally, MPLS arbitrage doesn’t hurt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s an exciting time for customers looking for SD-WAN solutions and digital transformation tools in general. Companies should come and learn\u00a0about the latest in everything you need! SIP Trunking, UCaaS,\u00a0the Channel<\/a>,\u00a0IT, IOT,\u00a0Edge<\/a>, Cybersecurity, AI,\u00a0SD-WAN<\/a>,\u00a0and the\u00a0Future of Work<\/a>\u00a0at the world\u2019s only\u00a0SD-WAN Expo<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0MSP Expo<\/a><\/strong>, part of the\u00a0<\/em>ITEXPO<\/a><\/em><\/strong>\u00a0#TechSuperShow,\u00a0Feb 12-14, 2020 Fort Lauderdale, FL.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

You will see all the leaders in SD-WAN, including (so far):<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n