The "The SDN, NFV & Network Virtualization Ecosystem: 2017-2030 - Opportunities, Challenges, Strategies & Forecasts" report from SNS Research has been added to Research and Markets' offering.

The SDN, NFV & Network Virtualization Ecosystem: 2017 - 2030 - Opportunities, Challenges, Strategies & Forecasts report presents an in-depth assessment of the SDN, NFV and network virtualization ecosystem including enabling technologies, key trends, market drivers, challenges, use cases, deployment case studies, regulatory landscape, standardization, opportunities, future roadmap, value chain, ecosystem player profiles and strategies. The report also presents market size forecasts from 2017 till 2030.

While the advantages of SDN (Software Defined Networking) and network virtualization are well known in the enterprise IT and data center world, both technologies also bring a host of benefits to the telecommunications service provider community. Not only can these technologies help address the explosive capacity demand of mobile traffic, but they can also reduce the CapEx and OpEx burden faced by service providers to handle this demand by diminishing reliance on expensive proprietary hardware platforms. The recognition of these benefits has led to the emergence of the NFV (Network Functions Virtualization) concept that seeks to virtualize and effectively consolidate many service provider network elements onto multi-tenant industry-standard servers, switches and storage.

Service providers - both mobile and fixed-line - have already begun making significant investments in SDN and NFV across a number of use cases including but not limited to uCPE/vCPE, SD-WAN, vEPC, vIMS, Cloud RAN and vCDN. It is estimated that service provider SDN and NFV investments will grow at a CAGR of approximately 45% between 2017 and 2020, eventually accounting for nearly $22 Billion in revenue by the end of 2020.

The report comes with an associated Excel datasheet suite covering quantitative data from all numeric forecasts presented in the report.

Key Findings

  • It is estimated that service provider SDN and NFV investments will grow at a CAGR of approximately 45% between 2017 and 2020, eventually accounting for nearly $22 Billion in revenue by the end of 2020.
  • Spearheaded by internet giants, data center operators and large enterprises, the adoption of software-centric networking is also continuing to grow in the enterprise and data center segment. It is estimated that SDN and network virtualization investments in this segment accounted for $12 Billion in 2017 alone.
  • New market players are beginning to emerge as service providers accelerate their transition to software-centric networks. For example, with their early wins in NFV-compliant mobile core and IMS platforms, companies such as Mavenir Systems and Affirmed Networks have emerged as direct competitors to established wireless network infrastructure giants.
  • With the emergence of initiatives such as the Linux Foundation's ONAP (Open Network Automation Platform), ETSI's OSM (Open-Source MANO) and SK Telecom's T-MANO, solutions are beginning to be commercialized that can perform integrated management and orchestration of VNFs from multiple vendors.

Forecast Segmentation

Market forecasts are provided for each of the following submarkets, user base and functional area categories:

Submarkets

  • SDN/SD-WAN Hardware & Software
  • NFV Hardware & Software
  • Other Network Virtualization Software

User Base Categories

  • Service Providers
  • Enterprises & Data Centers

SDN/SD-WAN Submarkets

  • SDN-Enabled Switches, Routers & Other Appliances
  • SDN Controller Software
  • SDN Orchestration Software
  • SDN Network Applications
  • SD-WAN Appliances
  • SD-WAN Control & Overlay Software

NFV Submarkets

  • NFVI (NFV Infrastructure)
  • NFV MANO (Management & Orchestration) Software
  • VNF (Virtualized Network Function) Software

Service Provider Functional Area Categories

  • CDN (Content Delivery Network)
  • CPE (Customer Premises Equipment)
  • Data Center
  • Fixed Access Network
  • IMS & VoLTE
  • Mobile Core
  • Policy Control
  • RAN (Radio Access Network)
  • Transport Network
  • Other Areas

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