
Worldwide Software Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN) Market – BY Network components (MPLS, Broadband, 4G/LTE), Deployment (On-premise and Cloud), Services (CSP,MSP and clould providers), Products (Hardware and Software), Verticals (BFSI, healthcare, retail, manufacturing, oil & gas, government and education), and Regions (North America, Europe, Asia-pacifc, Latin America and MEA): 2016–2022
- October, 2016
- Domain: ICT - Software & Services






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The Software Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN) is an emerging solution for networking, which is aimed at simplifying and enhancing branch and remote office connectivity. This provides an improved and secure internet connectivity that allows administrators to manage the WAN, identify, and address service issues. It also helps businesses to manage their connections between the internet, external cloud services, data center and sites. The integration of hardware and software reduces the need for hardware and increases the enterprises business. The SD-WAN has been gaining attention due to the operational benefits and huge cost savings over traditional WAN infrastructure.
The Software Defined Network (SDN) adoption in the data center is gaining strong interest with SD-WAN. It is expected that over the next 5 years, many organizations will deploy SD-WAN solution for the development of branch networking solutions. The report is segmented into network components, deployment, services, products, verticals, and regions. North America is expected to have the largest market share followed by Europe and Asia Pacific. The emerging regions such as Latin America and MEA are also expected to increase their spending on SD-WAN over the next 2 years. There will be an increased demand from the enterprises for more flexible, open, and cloud-based WAN technologies.
According to Infoholic Research, it is estimated that the “Worldwide Software Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN)” market will witness a CAGR of around 90.2% during the forecast period 2016–2022. The reducing operational cost is one of the major drivers for SD-WAN adoption. There is an increased interest among the organizations and many new startups are going after the potential in the SD-WAN market. The key players covered in this report are VeloCloud Networks, Inc., Viptela, Inc., CloudGenix, Citrix System, Nuage Networks, Cisco Systems, Versa networks, etc.
The study covers and analyzes the “Worldwide Software Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN)” market. Bringing out the complete key insights of the industry, the report aims to provide an opportunity for players to understand the latest trends, current market scenario, government initiatives, and technologies related to the market. In addition, helps the venture capitalist in understanding the companies better and take informed decisions.
Benefits:
The report provides an in-depth analysis of the SD-WAN market aiming to bring down the operational cost for the enterprises. The report provides a detailed analysis of the SD-WAN in terms of network components, services, products, deployment, verticals and regions. The report also provides a detailed analysis of the SD-WAN.
The report gives insights about the
- Information related to latest industry and market trends, key stakeholders, industry pest analysis and competitive landscape
- Details of the network components and emerging networking connectivity
- Top 10 vendors Vis-a-Vis end-user inputs on key factors
The report will be useful for service providers, enterprises, and new startups of SD-WAN market such as connectivity technology providers, various end-users and WAN technology providers in the following ways:
- Competitive analysis (i.e. current and future key business strategies of the competitors and their regional growth)
- Drivers and growth opportunities in different regions
1 Industry Outlook
1.1 Industry Overview
1.2 Industry Trends
1.3 Pest Analysis
2 Report Outline
2.1 Report Scope
2.2 Report Summary
2.3 Research Methodology
2.4 Report Assumptions
3 Market Snapshot
3.1 Total Addressable Market (TAM)
3.1.1 WAN
3.1.2 SDN
3.2 Segmented Addressable Market (SAM)
3.3 Related Markets
3.3.1 SaaS
4 Market Outlook
4.1 Overview
4.2 Market Definition
4.3 Impact
4.4 Architecture
4.5 Evolution
4.6 SD-WAN Value Chain
4.7 Market Segmentation
4.8 Porter 5 (Five) Forces
5 Market Characteristics
5.1 Difference Between SND and SD-WAN
5.2 Difference Between Traditional WAN and SD-WAN
5.3 Advantage, Disadvantages and Need for SD WAN
5.4 Need of SD-WAN
5.5 SD-WAN features
5.6 Things need to be consider before the adoption of SD-WAN
5.7 Market Dynamics
5.7.1 Drivers
5.7.1.1 Increasing MPLS cost
5.7.1.2 Reduce the complex infrastructure
5.7.1.3 Increase in the bandwidth
5.7.1.4 Increased flexibility
5.7.1.5 Need for improving traffic management
5.7.2 Restraints
5.7.2.1 Huge implementation cost
5.7.2.2 Interoperability issues
5.7.2.3 Lack of SD-WAN standards
5.7.3 Opportunities
5.7.3.1 New revenue generation for service providers
5.7.3.2 Improved customer value
5.7.3.3 High operational efficiency
5.7.4 DRO – Impact Analysis
6 Network Components
6.1 Overview
6.1.1 MPLS
6.1.2 Internet Broadband
6.1.3 4G/LTE
7 Services
7.1 Overview
7.2 CSP (Communication Service Provider)
7.3 MSP (Managed Service Provider)
7.4 Cloud Managed Service
8 Products
8.1 Overview
8.1.1 Hardware
8.1.2 Software
8.1.3 Deployment Mode Decision Matrix
9 Verticals
9.1 Overview
9.1.1 Retail
9.1.2 Healthcare
9.1.3 BFSI
9.1.4 Manufacturing
9.1.5 Oil and Gas
9.1.6 Educations
9.1.7 Government
9.1.8 Others
10 Deployment
10.1 Overview
10.1.1 On-premise
10.1.2 Cloud Computing
11 Region
11.1 Overview
11.1.1 North America
11.1.1.1 US
11.1.1.2 Canada
11.1.2 Europe
11.1.2.1 UK
11.1.2.2 Germany
11.1.2.3 France
11.1.3 Asia Pacific
11.1.3.1 Japan
11.1.3.2 China
11.1.3.3 Australia and New Zealand (ANZ)
11.1.3.4 India
11.1.4 Latin America
11.1.4.1 Brazil
11.1.5 Middle East & Africa (MEA)
12 Competitive Landscape
12.1 Overview
12.1.1 List of vendor’s assessment
12.1.1.1 Cisco Systems
12.1.1.2 VeloCloud Inc.
12.1.1.3 Versa Networks
12.1.1.4 Silver Peak
12.1.1.5 CloudGenix
12.1.1.6 Nuage Networks (Nokia)
12.1.1.7 Talari
12.1.1.8 Viptela
12.1.1.9 Riverbed
12.1.1.10Pertino Networks
12.2 Mergers and Acquisitions
12.3 Joint Ventures
12.4 Venture Capital Funding
12.5 Others Players
13 Vendors
13.1.1 VeloCloud Networks, Inc.
13.1.1.1 Overview
13.1.1.2 Business Segments
13.1.1.3 Geographic Presences
13.1.1.4 Business Focus
13.1.1.5 SWOT Analysis
13.1.1.6 Business Strategy
13.1.2 Riverbed Technology, Inc.
13.1.2.1 Overview
13.1.2.2 Business Unit
13.1.2.3 Geographic Presences
13.1.2.4 Business Focus
13.1.2.5 SWOT Analysis
13.1.2.6 Business Strategy
13.1.3 Nuage Networks (Nokia)
13.1.3.1 Overview
13.1.3.2 Business unit
13.1.3.3 Geographic Revenue
13.1.3.4 Business Focus
13.1.3.5 SWOT Analysis
13.1.3.6 Business Strategy
13.1.4 Silver Peak, Inc.
13.1.4.1 Overview
13.1.4.2 Business Unit
13.1.4.3 Geographic Presences
13.1.4.4 Business Focus
13.1.4.5 SWOT Analysis
13.1.4.6 Business Strategy
13.1.5 Aryaka Networks, Inc.
13.1.5.1 Overview
13.1.5.2 Business Unit
13.1.5.3 Geographic Presences
13.1.5.4 Business Focus
13.1.5.5 SWOT Analysis
13.1.5.6 Business Strategy
13.1.6 Cisco Systems, Inc.
13.1.6.1 Overview
13.1.6.2 Business Unit
13.1.6.3 Geographic Revenue
13.1.6.4 Business Focus
13.1.6.5 SWOT Analysis
13.1.6.6 Business Strategy
13.1.7 Viptela
13.1.7.1 Overview
13.1.7.2 Business Unit
13.1.7.3 Geographic Presences
13.1.7.4 Business Focus
13.1.7.5 SWOT Analysis
13.1.7.6 Business Strategy
13.1.8 Versa Networks
13.1.8.1 Overview
13.1.8.2 Business Unit
13.1.8.3 Geographic Presences
13.1.8.4 Business Focus
13.1.8.5 SWOT Analysis
13.1.8.6 Business Strategy
13.1.9 CloudGenix Inc.
13.1.9.1 Overview
13.1.9.2 Business Unit
13.1.9.3 Geographic Presence
13.1.9.4 Business Focus
13.1.9.5 SWOT Analysis
13.1.9.6 Business Strategy
13.1.10 Pertino
13.1.10.1 Overview
13.1.10.2 Business Unit
13.1.10.3 Geographic Presences
13.1.10.4 Business Focus
13.1.10.5 SWOT Analysis
13.1.10.6 Business Strategy
Annexure
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Research Framework
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- Data Collation (Primary & Secondary)
- In-house Estimation (Based on proprietary data bases and Models)
- Market Triangulation
- Forecasting

Market related information is congregated from both primary and secondary sources.
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Secondary sources
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