SD-WAN Market Continues to Grow with VMware in the Lead

SD-WAN has moved from being a niche use case to a vibrant and growing market opportunity for networking vendors. According to IHS Markit's Data Center Network Equipment Market Tracker, revenue for SD-WAN, which includes appliance and control management software grew in the first quarter of 2019 by 8 percent. Among the key area of growth for SD-WAN technology are mobile and remote workers."Enterprises want to ensure that employees who are remote or mobile still have high levels of connectivity for SaaS-based applications," stated Josh Bancroft, senior research analyst at IHS Markit. "Application traffic is required to traverse over multiple links to ensure failover for voice and video sessions where constant connectivity is essential, such as for home office-based customer service agents or medical first responders."