The explosion of SD-WAN has caught the telecoms market by surprise. The technology has matured quickly.
As Enterprise customers demand more flexible, simple and cost-effective cloud-based solutions the popularity of SD-WAN continues to rise. There are some 40 different vendors in the appliance landscape; it goes without saying that market consolidation (and consolidation of product lines) is likely – making it important for enterprise buyers to do their homework.
In a recent Frost & Sullivan study 51% of Enterprises surveyed indicated that they would deploy SD-WAN in the next 12-24 months. 33% of respondents had either already deployed an SD-WAN solution or had deployment underway4.
Clearly SD-WAN is here for the long haul; we can only expect the growing trend to accelerate over the next few years.
Here’s some trends we’re seeing that make SD-WAN such a hot topic right now.
SD-WAN is advancing towards mainstream adoption. It’s currently estimated SD-WAN will comprise 25% of all WAN traffic by 20211. The worldwide router market declined 2.5% year over year in 2Q2018 with revenues of $3.8 billion, according to the IDC Quarterly Router Tracker.
| 1. IDC forecast that the SD-WAN market will grow at 40.4% CAGR from 2017 to 2022 to reach AUD$6.2B1 |
| 2. Enterprise branch bandwidth is rising; network traffic is doubling every 3 years2 |
| 3. 95% of all organisations will be relying on the SaaS model for application delivery by 20203 |
| 4. Growth in global Internet traffic is expected to increase by 3x from 2016 to 20211 |
| 5. The percentage of WAN being managed using SD-WAN will increase to approximately 30% by the end of 20194 |
1. IDC SD-WAN Infrastructure Forecast. 2. VNI Forecast 2016-2021. 3. 2018 IDH Cloud Computing Study. 4. Gartner
‘SD-WAN is advancing towards mainstream adoption. It’s currently estimated SD-WAN will comprise 25% of all WAN traffic by 20211 . The worldwide router market declined 2.5% year over year in 2Q2018 with revenues of $3.8 billion,
according to the IDC Quarterly Router Tracker.’