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The Gartner Perspective

As of November 2016
• Spending on SD-WAN will rise from $129

million in 2016 to $1.24 billion in 2020

• Forecasted to grow at a CAGR of 76.2% from

2016 through 2020

• SD-WAN revenue will grow at the expense of
traditional routers and by capturing funds that
would have been spent on WAN Op
controllers, firewalls and MPLS services

• *By 2018, more than 40% of WAN edge

infrastructure refresh initiatives will be based
on software-defined WAN (SD-WAN)
appliances and/or x86-based virtualized
customer premises equipment (vCPE)
platforms versus traditional routers (up from
less than 2% today).

Forecast: SD-WAN and Its Impact on Traditional Router and MPLS Services Revenue, Worldwide, 2016-2020
*Predicts 2017: Enterprise Networks and Network Services, 18 November 2016

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