19 Mar 2023 U.S. SD-WAN Technology LEADERBOARD
Four of the five LEADERBOARD positions change; VMware by Broadcom secures #1 rank, surpassing Cisco; HPE Aruba Networking advances to #4, ahead of Versa Networks
BOSTON, MA, MARCH 20, 2024 – Vertical Systems Group announces that five companies qualify for a rank position on the 2023 U.S. SD-WAN Technology LEADERBOARD as follows (in rank order based on site share): VMware by Broadcom, Cisco, Fortinet, HPE Aruba Networking, and Versa Networks. This benchmark quantifies U.S. market presence across the technology suppliers empowering Carrier Managed SD-WAN solutions.
Each of these Technology Suppliers has 5% or more of the total number of U.S. Carrier Managed SD-WAN customer sites installed and billable as of December 31, 2023. For this analysis a site is counted once per supplier, regardless of the amount of SD-WAN equipment installed at the customer location.
“Significant changes in site shares for the leading SD-WAN Technology companies resulted in a shakeup in the year-end 2023 rankings. Many enterprise customers are refreshing their Carrier Managed SD-WAN networks with new orchestration capabilities, dynamic underlay connectivity, and SSE security.”
These market leading technology companies plus others supply their SD-WAN equipment to the service providers ranked on Vertical Systems Group’s 2023 U.S. Carrier Managed SD-WAN LEADERBOARD – AT&T, Comcast Business, Verizon, Hughes, Lumen, Windstream, and Zayo – as well as to the service providers cited in the 2023 Challenge and Market Player tiers.
SD-WAN Technology Research Highlights
- The U.S. base of Carrier Managed SD-WAN sites expanded 24% in 2023 based on Vertical Systems Group’s latest research. Sites for this analysis are U.S. customer locations with billable managed SD-WAN installations from a carrier, including both U.S. and Global service providers.
- The SD-WAN solutions currently offered by the 2023 U.S. SD-WAN Technology LEADERBOARD suppliers are as follows: VMware by Broadcom offers VeloCloud SD-WAN, Cisco offers Meraki and Catalyst SD-WAN, Fortinet offers Secure SD-WAN, HPE Aruba offers EdgeConnect SD-WAN, and the Versa Networks solution is Versa Secure SD-WAN.
- Customer interest is escalating for SD-WAN + SSE solutions that integrate the best of breed technologies from different suppliers. Consequently, SD-WAN providers are expanding their rosters of SSE partners. Among the most widely used SSE suppliers are Palo Alto Networks, Zscaler, and Netskope.
- A 2024 business challenge for both technology suppliers and service providers will be managing repercussions due to the acquisitions of some SD-WAN, SSE, and SASE partners.
- MEF 3.0 SD-WAN Technology Certification has been attained by LEADERBOARD companies VMware by Broadcom, Cisco, Fortinet, and Versa Networks.
Market Players in this U.S. SD-WAN Technology segment include all other companies with site share below five percent (5%) of total U.S. Carrier Managed SD-WAN customer sites. For 2023, the Market Player tier includes the following companies (in alphabetical order): Adaptiv Networks, Arista, Aryaka, Barracuda, Cradlepoint, Extreme Networks, FatPipe, Forcepoint, GFI Software, Huawei, Juniper Networks, Lavelle Networks, Mushroom Networks, Nuage Networks from Nokia, Oracle, Palo Alto Networks, Riverbed, Sophos, Teldat and others.
Vertical Systems Group’s Definition: Carrier Managed SD-WAN Service
Vertical Systems Group defines a Carrier Managed SD-WAN Service for segment analysis and share calculations as a carrier-grade offering for business customers that is managed by a network operator. Required components and functionality for these offerings include an SDN service architecture that provides dynamic optimization of traffic flows, a purpose-built SD-WAN appliance or CPE-hosted SD-WAN VNF at each customer edge site, support for multiple active underlay connectivity services, automated failover fast enough to maintain active sessions, and centralized network orchestration with traffic and application visibility end-to-end. Security is the most essential additional managed SD-WAN service capability that may be provided or integrated based on specific customer requirements.
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