In this blog, we share some of the findings of our ongoing research on the SD-WAN market and the various categories of players. In published research, Appledore have predicted: Growth of CSPs’ market share providing SDWAN managed services CSPs employing SD-WAN to anchor a new “Dynamic Enterprise Edge” Consolidation of the SD-WAN technology (suppliers) market Entrance of management (Service Orchestration) firms with solutions intended to automate the delivery of a family of related and sometimes inter-dependent dynamic services Maturation of SDWAN technology with a critical mass of features developing, below which suppliers will be increasingly non-competitive The market is validating our predictions We now have the opportunity to validate and update these predictions based on continuing primary research, now roughly 12-18 months after we began our project. Updated information comes from in-depth discussions with the four key sets of players – major enterprises, major CSPs, leading SDWAN suppliers and orchestration/management suppliers. It is evident from multiple sources that early technology was immature, but current solutions are dramatically more mature. It is also evident that SDWAN suppliers are focusing more of their efforts at CSPs as a channel via managed services. This demands that they support: True multi-tenancy Large scale, with […]