ISG Launches Study on Rapidly Growing SDN Market
February 07 2020 - 9:00AM
Information Services Group (ISG) (Nasdaq: III), a leading global
technology research and advisory firm, has launched a research
study examining software-defined networking (SDN) providers and the
services they offer across the globe.
The study results will be published in a comprehensive ISG
Provider Lens™ report, called Network – Software Defined
Solutions and Service Partners, scheduled to be released in July.
The report will cover global network offerings related to
software-defined networking, including SD-WAN and mobile
technologies.
Enterprise buyers will be able to use information from the
report to evaluate their current vendor relationships, potential
new engagements and available offerings, while ISG advisors use the
information to recommend providers to the firm’s buy-side
clients.
The new report examines the fast-growing SDN and SD-WAN
networking market, said Jan Erik Aase, director and global leader,
ISG Provider Lens Research. “The SDN and SD-WAN segments are
evolving and rapidly increasing in market share and presence, as
are several other related network services,” he said. “Across the
globe, enterprises are looking to these new networking technologies
to increase their agility and flexibility, boost customer
satisfaction and decrease overall network costs.”
ISG has distributed surveys to more than 110 networking and SDN
technology and service providers. Working in collaboration with
ISG’s global advisors, the research team will produce six quadrants
representing the services and products the typical enterprise
client is buying in the networking and SDN space, based on ISG’s
experience working with its clients. The six quadrants that will be
covered are:
- Managed WAN Services, covering the features and
functionality that carriers offer in their wide-area networks
(WANs) and at the customer point of demarcation. They are a
collection of value-added services that include monitoring and
reporting, security and outsourced customer premises equipment
functions. Many enterprises perceive managed WAN services as a
means to outsource IT functions, and they purchase them along with
consulting and professional services to assess, design and
implement their enterprise networks.
- Managed SD-WAN Services, providing the benefits of SDN
technology over traditional hardware-based networking. These
services offer an overlay architecture with a networking foundation
that is much easier to manage than legacy WANs, essentially moving
the control layer to the cloud and in the process, centralizing and
simplifying network management. This overlay design abstracts
software from hardware, enabling network virtualization and making
the network more elastic.
- SDN Transformation Services (Consulting &
Implementation), offering SDN technology over traditional
hardware-based networking. Suppliers have been increasingly active
as advisors or consultants in this area and are also working as
implementation enactors, supplying complete or partial solutions to
enterprises. Consulting companies, large vendors and managed
network services providers have also been actively involved in
offering SD-WAN packages in this area.
- SD-WAN Equipment and Service Suppliers (DIY), focusing
on suppliers that have been active in directly selling SD-WAN
solutions to enterprises for their DIY implementations. These
suppliers are increasingly partnering with licensed telco and
service providers in their delivery packages in this space.
- Network Technologies Suppliers (Core to Mobile),
focusing on the SD technology networking approach that eliminates
the complex and static nature of legacy distributed network
architectures by using a standards-based software abstraction
between the network control plane and underlying data forwarding
plane, including both physical and virtual devices. It enables
improvements in network agility and automation while substantially
reducing the cost of network operations when compared with
traditional network deployments.
- Mobile Network (4G/5G) Additional (non-core) Services,
focusing on fifth-generation, or 5G, mobile networks, which are
designed to provide higher capacity than the current 4G, allowing a
greater density of mobile broadband users at higher transfer speeds
and supporting more device-to-device, reliable and massive machine
communications. It is also aimed at lower latency and battery
consumption than 4G equipment and is targeted for use with mobile
high-speed data and the Internet of Things (IoT). This segment
covers specific mobility-targeted services or solutions,
applications, management systems and methods, end-device control
and management and related services.
The report will cover the global networking and SDN market and
examine products and services available in the U.S., Germany, the
U.K. and the Nordic countries. ISG analysts Kenn Walters, Ron Exler
and Avimanyu Basu will serve as authors of the report.
An archetype report will also be published as part of this
study. This report, unique to ISG, is the study of typical buyer
types of SDN services as observed by ISG advisors.
A list of identified providers and vendors and further details
on the study are available in this digital brochure. Companies not
listed as networking SDN providers can contact ISG and ask to be
included in the study.
About ISG Provider Lens™ Research
The ISG Provider Lens™ Quadrant research series is the only
service provider evaluation of its kind to combine empirical,
data-driven research and market analysis with the real-world
experience and observations of ISG's global advisory team.
Enterprises will find a wealth of detailed data and market analysis
to help guide their selection of appropriate sourcing partners,
while ISG advisors use the reports to validate their own market
knowledge and make recommendations to ISG's enterprise clients. The
research currently covers providers offering their services
globally, across Europe and Latin America, as well as in the U.S.,
Germany, the U.K., France, the Nordics, Brazil and Australia/New
Zealand, with additional markets to be added in the future. For
more information about ISG Provider Lens research, please visit
this webpage.
The series is a complement to the ISG Provider Lens Archetype
reports, which offer a first-of-its-kind evaluation of providers
from the perspective of specific buyer types.
About ISG
ISG (Information Services Group) (Nasdaq: III) is a leading
global technology research and advisory firm. A trusted business
partner to more than 700 clients, including more than 70 of the top
100 enterprises in the world, ISG is committed to helping
corporations, public sector organizations, and service and
technology providers achieve operational excellence and faster
growth. The firm specializes in digital transformation services,
including automation, cloud and data analytics; sourcing advisory;
managed governance and risk services; network carrier services;
strategy and operations design; change management; market
intelligence and technology research and analysis. Founded in 2006,
and based in Stamford, Conn., ISG employs more than 1,300
digital-ready professionals operating in more than 20 countries—a
global team known for its innovative thinking, market influence,
deep industry and technology expertise, and world-class research
and analytical capabilities based on the industry’s most
comprehensive marketplace data. For more information, visit
www.isg-one.com.
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Information Services Group, Inc.
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Jim Baptiste
Matter Communications for ISG
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