08 Jun 2025 U.S. SD-WAN Technology LEADERBOARD
Cisco retains #1 rank on the U.S. SD-WAN Technology LEADERBOARD; Top ranked SD-WAN Technology companies expand to six
BOSTON, MA, JUNE 8, 2026 – Vertical Systems Group announces that six companies qualify for a rank position on the year-end 2025 U.S. SD-WAN Technology LEADERBOARD as follows (in rank order based on site share): Cisco, Arista Networks, Fortinet, HPE Aruba Networking, Versa Networks and Ericsson. This latest benchmark quantifies U.S. market presence across the technology suppliers empowering Carrier Managed SD-WAN solutions.
Each of these six Technology Suppliers has 4% or more of the total number of U.S. Carrier Managed SD-WAN customer sites installed and billable as of December 31, 2025. For this analysis a site is counted once per supplier, regardless of the amount of SD-WAN equipment installed at the customer location.
- Note that due to SD-WAN market consolidation, the 2025 LEADERBOARD threshold has been lowered to 4%. The Market Player tier now tracks Technology Suppliers with less than four percent (4%) share of U.S. Carrier Managed SD-WAN sites.
“Leading SD-WAN Technology Suppliers are helping to fuel expansion of the SD-WAN market, which currently extends to greater than half a million U.S. customer sites. We anticipate ongoing updated solutions from SD-WAN technology providers, particularly advanced security enhancements, centralized network orchestration, application visibility and AI integration.”
SD-WAN Technology Research Highlights
- Cisco retains the #1 rank on the U.S. SD-WAN Technology LEADERBOARD for the second consecutive year.
- The SD-WAN Technology LEADERBOARD expands from five to six companies with the addition of Ericsson.
- Most of the leading Managed SD-WAN providers offer solutions from three or more Technology Suppliers in order to meet the wide range of requirements and evolving needs of their customers.
- The SD-WAN technology market continues to consolidate. Four of the six LEADERBOARD vendors offer acquired SD-WAN technology: Cisco (Viptela), Arista Networks (VeloCloud), HPE Aruba (Silver Peak and Juniper) and Ericsson (Cradlepoint).
- An emergent trend is rising customer demand for SD-WAN and SSE best-of-breed solutions, often from different Technology Suppliers.
- Enterprise customers are prolonging decisions about whether to augment their existing SD‑WAN solutions or pivot to more integrated SASE/SSE frameworks.
- Mplify (formerly MEF) 3.0 SD-WAN Technology Certification has been attained by the following three companies on the U.S. SD-WAN Technology LEADERBOARD: Cisco, Fortinet and Versa Networks.
Market Players in this U.S. SD-WAN Technology segment include all other companies with site share below four percent (4%) of total U.S. Carrier Managed SD-WAN customer sites. For 2025, the Market Player tier includes the following companies (in alphabetical order): Adaptiv Networks, Aryaka, Barracuda, Extreme Networks, FatPipe, Forcepoint, Huawei, Lavelle Networks, Mushroom Networks, Nokia, Palo Alto Networks, Peplink, Riverbed, Teldat, and others.
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