2024 North American Managed SD-WAN Forecast to 2028

Growing beyond the WAN

Networks demand high automation with on-demand and programmable features to keep pace with the growth of modern, dynamic infrastructures. These are pivotal in discussions about digital infrastructure because they are the backbone of the ecosystem. The SD-WAN market is considered mature, with expectations of steady growth for many years before any decline.

SD-WAN leads the charge in the network transformation necessary for digital operations. It delivers the flexible, scalable, high-performance, and intelligent networks that enterprises need to manage their complex configurations, including cloud services, Software-as-a-Service, remote work, and their own sites and data centers. Multicloud networking provides additional software services that enable enterprises to manage, optimize, and govern workloads across various cloud providers. With SD-WAN, users and applications are widely distributed, and it offers robust built-in observability and monitoring capabilities, further enhanced by service providers integrating more intelligence from their element managers.

In this analysis, Frost & Sullivan has identified growth opportunities focused on three areas with untapped potential for network service providers-security threat intelligence, Monitoring-as-a-Service, and a concentrated effort on smart infrastructure.