Magic Quadrant for SD-WAN
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.
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 SD-WAN market is mature with a crowded, fragmented vendor landscape. Gartner expects significant aspects of the SD-WAN market to evolve into the single-vendor SASE market, with integrated network security (SSE) delivered from the cloud. Multiple SSE vendors have added SD-WAN to their product portfolio within the last 12 months to compete for single-vendor SASE or differentiate among SSE competitors. Acquisitions are likely to continue primarily around SD-WAN and network security vendors consolidating to form single-vendor SASE. Some vendors have exited this market over the last few years. For SD-WAN vendors to have long-term market relevancy, they need to have a SASE strategy as SD-WAN evolves to more of a feature.
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.