IHS Markit report: the $4.4 billion SDN market, Cisco first, VMware second, Huawei fifth!

Today, the data center and enterprise LAN markets are becoming more and more mature. Global SDN market revenue reached US $4.4 billion in 2017 and is expected to reach US $15.8 billion by 2022. While technological innovation continues, some white-card switch suppliers have announced that they will adopt new programmable silicon 400GE switches, which integrate ARM processors to support artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), and allow data control platform protocols to be modified without changing the chip. It is also worth noting that Edgecore Networks contributed its 440GE switch design to the Open Computing Project (OCP).

▲ data center and enterprise LAN SDN market totaled US $4.4 billion in 2017, with VMware and Cisco becoming industry leaders

SDN controllers for data centers will also continue to add functionality, support for the interconnection of multiple local data centers, and support for interoperability between cloud computing service provider (CSP) data centers and enterprise building multi-clouds. Other notable enhancements include support for container networking and integration with container management software such as Kubernetes.

According to research firm IHS Markit, ● estimates that global data center and enterprise network procurement revenue from software-defined networks (SDN) (including white-brand SDN switches, branded SDN switches, SDN controllers) will reach US $15.8 billion in 2022.

The white-brand switch market revenue of ● reached US $790 million in 2017, accounting for 26% of the total revenue of the SDN switch market.

● 's data center SDN controller generated $1.2 billion in revenue in 2017 and is expected to reach $4 billion by 2022, when it will account for 17% of data center and enterprise LAN SDN revenue.

In the industry, Cisco ranks first, accounting for 21% of SDN market revenue in 2017, 19% of ● ranks third, 15% of SDN Box ranks fourth, accounting for 12%, and Huawei ranks fifth, with 7%.

"$15.8 billion in 2022 is not new revenue, and existing revenue from SDN-enabled switches will be transferred from the Ethernet switch market due to a decline in average selling prices." Dr. Cliff Grossner, Senior Research Director of IHS Markit, said, "some network operators will choose to use white-brand switches when deploying SDN and rely on SDN controllers to achieve advanced control plane functions."

IHS Markit data center and enterprise SDN hardware and software market reports: 1, focus on SDN controller market forecasts, including market size, market share, market analysis and industry trends; 2, provide white and brand switches in the SDN market survey; 3, track market changes in the SD-WAN market 4. The main interested manufacturers include Arista, Aryaka, Cisco, Citrix, CloudGenix, Dell EMC, Fatpipe, HP, Huawei, InfoVista, Juniper, NEC, Riverbed, Silver Peak, Talari, VMware, White Box, ZTE and so on.

Summary: data center and enterprise LAN SDN have become the mainstream of the market, and their market scale will continue to grow.