Gartner 2019 WAN Edge Market Trends Report

How to Win as WAN Edge and Security Converge into Secure Access Service Edge

According to Gartner, "The WAN edge and network security markets will converge into a single marketduring the next seven to 10 years, dramatically reshaping the competitive landscape. This research guides TSPs in transforming their companies to prosper in this rapidly evolving market."

Read this report for these insights and more:

  • Gartner clients increasingly are linking WAN transformation and security refresh/transformation projects
  • As traffic patterns shift due to new application deployment models and as mobile/temporary endpoints became common, forward-leaning organizations have shifted to a light-branch/heavy-cloud approach
  • Customer demands for simplicity, scalability, flexibility, low latency and pervasive security force convergence of the WAN edge and network security markets, creating the secure access service edge (SASE), with a predominantly cloud-based, as-a-service delivery model

 

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By year-end 2023, more than 90% of WAN edge infrastructure refresh initiatives will be based on virtualized customer premises equipment (vCPE) platforms or software-defined WAN (SD-WAN) software/appliances versus traditional routers (up from less than 40% today). -- Gartner

 

 

Gartner, Market Trends: How to Win as WAN Edge and Security Converge into the Secure Access Service Edge
Published: 29 July 2019
Analyst(s): Neil Macdonald, Joe Skorupa

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