Report: Data Center And Enterprise In-Use For SDN Market Up More Than 80%
SD-WAN to hit $1.3 billion by 2020 according to IHS.
The global data center and enterprise software‑defined networking (SDN) market —including in-use for SDN Ethernet switches, SDN controllers, software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) appliances and control and management — rose 82% in 2015 from the prior year, reaching $1.4 billion, according to IHS Inc.
“New SDN use cases continue to emerge, and 2015 was no exception with the establishment of the SD-WAN market. While still a small market, many startups, traditional WAN optimization appliance vendors and traditional network vendors have jumped in, and we forecast SD-WAN revenue to hit $1.3 billion by 2020,” said Cliff Grossner, Ph.D., senior research director for data center, cloud and SDN at IHS Technology.