Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Wired and Wireless LAN
Vendors or products added in this year’s report may indicate a change in the market, change in evaluation criteria, or change of focus by the vendor.
No vendors were added in this report.
Vendors or products dropped from one year to the next may indicate a change in the market, change in evaluation criteria, or change of focus by the vendor.
The enterprise wired and wireless LAN market is increasingly defined by operational outcomes rather than features. Vendor innovation investments are focused on AI to deliver more secure and more autonomous networks that reduce operational effort and perform consistently over time. Infrastructure investment decisions are evaluated less by deployment success and more by how networks behave over time, including reliability in production, change safety and the consistent enforcement of zero-trust security across environments. As a result, enterprises are shifting from buying hardware and features to committing to outcomes that must be delivered and sustained over the full life cycle of the LAN.
A: We review and adjust our inclusion criteria for Magic Quadrants as markets change. As a result of these adjustments, the mix of vendors in any Magic Quadrant may change over time. A vendor's appearance in a Magic Quadrant one year and not the next does not necessarily indicate that we have changed our opinion of that vendor. It may be a reflection of a change in the market and, therefore, changed evaluation criteria, or of a change of focus by that vendor.