Synopsis: 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.
Mobile operators and internet service providers have already begun making SDN and NFV investments in a number of functional areas including but not limited to EPC/mobile core, IMS, policy control, CPE (Customer Premises Equipment), CDN (Content Delivery Network) and transport networks. SNS Research estimates that service provider SDN and NFV investments will grow at a CAGR of 46% between 2016 and 2020. As service providers seek to reduce costs and virtualize their networks, these investments will eventually account for over $18 Billion in revenue by the end of 2020.
The ¡°SDN, NFV & Network Virtualization Ecosystem: 2016 – 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 2016 till 2030. The forecasts are segmented for 10 submarkets, 2 user base categories, 9 use cases, 6 regions and 34 countries.
The report comes with an associated Excel datasheet suite covering quantitative data from all numeric forecasts presented in the report. Key Findings: The report has the following key findings:
- SNS Research estimates that service provider SDN and NFV investments will grow at a CAGR of 46% between 2016 and 2020, eventually accounting for over $18 Billion in revenue by the end of 2020.
- At present, virtualized CPE, EPC/mobile core, IMS and policy control platforms represent nearly 70% of all VNF (Virtual Network Function) software investments.
- SNS Research estimates that by 2020, nearly 80% of all new EPC investments will be virtualized.
- Although the use of SDN is widespread in the enterprise and data center domain, service providers are only beginning to adopt the technology to programmatically manage their networks.
- Investments on orchestration platforms will account for over $1.6 Billion in revenue by the end of 2020, representing nearly 10% of all service provider SDN and NFV spending.
- The growing adoption of SDN and NFV has created a natural opportunity for silicon and server OEMs to combine their server platforms with a networking business stream.
Topics Covered: The report covers the following topics:
- SDN, NFV and network virtualization ecosystem
- Market drivers and barriers
- Enabling technologies, protocols, architecture and key trends
- Use cases, applications, PoC (Proof of Concept) and deployment case studies
- CapEx saving potential of SDN and NFV
- Orchestration and management platforms
- Regulatory landscape and standardization
- Industry roadmap and value chain
- Profiles and strategies of over 240 leading ecosystem players
- Strategic recommendations for ecosystem players
- Market analysis and forecasts from 2016 till 2030
Forecast Segmentation:
Market forecasts are provided for each of the following submarkets, user base and use case categories:
- Submarkets
- SDN Hardware & Software
- NFV Hardware & Software
- Other Network Virtualization Software
- User Base Categories
- Service Providers
- Enterprises & Data Centers
- NFV Submarkets
- Hardware Appliances
- Orchestration & Management Software
- VNF Software
- Service Provider SDN Submarkets
- SDN-Enabled Hardware Appliances
- Orchestration & Management Software
- SDN Controller Software
- Network Applications Software
- Enterprise & Data Center SDN Submarkets
- SDN-Enabled Hardware Appliances
- SDN-Enabled Virtual Switches
- SDN Controller Software
- Service Provider Use Case Categories
- CDN
- CPE
- Data Center
- EPC/Mobile Core
- Fixed Access Networks
- IMS & VoLTE
- Policy, OSS & BSS
- RAN (Radio Access Network)
- Transport & Backhaul
- Regional Markets
- Asia Pacific
- Eastern Europe
- Latin & Central America
- Middle East & Africa
- North America
- Western Europe
- Country Markets
- Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Israel, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, Norway, Pakistan, Philippines, Poland, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, Thailand, UAE, UK and USA
Additional forecasts are provided for:
- SDN and NFV Induced Service Provider CapEx Savings by Region
Key Questions Answered: The report provides answers to the following key questions:
- How big is the SDN, NFV and network virtualization opportunity?
- What trends, challenges and barriers are influencing its growth?
- How is the ecosystem evolving by segment and region?
- What will the market size be in 2020 and at what rate will it grow?
- Which regions, submarkets and countries will see the highest percentage of growth?
- How are service provider led initiatives driving SDN and NFV investments?
- How does regulation impact the adoption of SDN and NFV centric networks?
- How can NFV make the VoLTE (Voice over LTE) business case work?
- How can software defined DPI (Deep Packet Inspection) complement SDN functionality?
- What level of CapEx savings can SDN and NFV facilitate for service providers?
- Do SDN and NFV pose a threat to traditional network infrastructure vendors?
- Who are the key market players and what are their strategies?
- Is there a ring leader in the SDN and NFV ecosystem?
- What strategies should enabling technology providers, network infrastructure vendors, mobile operators and other ecosystem players adopt to remain competitive?
List of Companies Mentioned: The following companies and organizations have been reviewed, discussed or mentioned in the report:
3GPP (3rd Generation Partnership Project) 6WIND A10 Networks Accedian Networks ACCESS CO. Accton Technology Corporation Active Broadband Networks Actus Networks ADARA Networks Adax ADLINK Technology ADTRAN ADVA Optical Networking Affirmed Networks Agema Systems Airbus Defence and Space Akamai Technologies ALAXALA Networks Corporation Albis Technologies Alcatel-Lucent Allied Telesis Allot Communications Alpha Networks ALTEN Calsoft Labs ALTEN Group Altiostar Networks Alvarion Technologies Amartus AMD (Advanced Micro Devices) Amdocs ANEVIA Argela Aricent Arista Networks Arkoon Netasq ARM Holdings ARRIS Group Artesyn Embedded Technologies ASOCS Astellia AT&T AudioCodes Avaya AWS (Amazon Web Services) Baidu Banco Santander Barracuda Networks Big Switch Networks BlueCoat Brain4Net Broadcom Broadpeak BroadSoft Brocade BT Group BTI Systems Canoga Perkins Canonical Catbird Networks Cavium Cedexis Cellwize Centec Networks Ceragon Networks Certes Networks Check Point Software Technologies China Mobile Ciena Corporation CIMI Corporation Cisco Systems Citigroup Citrix Systems Clavister ClearPath Networks Cloudscaling CloudWeaver Cobham Wireless Cohesive Networks Colt Technology Services Group Comodo Security Solutions Compass-EOS Comptel Concurrent Connectem ConteXtream Coriant Corsa Technology CSC (Computer Sciences Corporation) Cumulus Networks Cyan Dell Dialogic Dorado Software DT (Deutsche Telekom) ECI Telecom Edgeware Ekinops Elemental Technologies Embrane EMC Corporation Enterasys Networks EnterpriseWeb Equinix Ericsson Etisalat ETSI (European Telecommunications Standards Institute) EXFO Extreme Networks EZchip Semiconductor F5 Networks FibroLAN Fidelity Investments Flash Networks Flextronics International Fortinet FRAFOS Freescale Semiconductor Fujitsu GENBAND Gencore Systems Gigamon GigaSpaces Technologies Google Grupo Santander Guavus H3C Technologies Harmonic Hitachi HP (Hewlett-Packard) Hrvatski Telekom Huawei HyTrust IBM IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) IIJ (Internet Initiative Japan) Illumio Imagine Communications Corporation Infinera Infoblox Inocybe Technologies Intel Corporation Interface Masters Technologies Intracom Telecom Intune Networks IP Infusion IPgallery iPhotonix IPITEK IRTF (Internet Research Task Force) Italtel ITU (International Telecommunications Union) iwNetworks Ixia Juniper Kanazawa University Hospital KDDI Corporation KEMP Technologies KT Corporation Lemko Corporation Lenovo LG Uplus LineRate Systems Linux Foundation Lumeta Corporation Luxoft Holding Maipu Communication Technology Marvell Technology Group MatrixStream Technologies Mavenir Systems MediaTek MEF (Metro Ethernet Forum) Mellanox Technologies Metaswitch Networks Microsoft Midokura Mirantis Mitel Networks Corporation Mobily Saudi Arabia Mojatatu Networks MRV Communications NAKA Mobile Nakina Systems Napatech NCLC (NCL Communication) NEC Corporation NetCracker Technology NETGEAR Netronome Netrounds NetScout Systems NetYCE NFVWare Nippon Express Nokia Networks Nominum NoviFlow NTT Communications NTT DoCoMo Nuage Networks NXP Semiconductors Oi Brazil OMG (Object Management Group) Omnitron Systems ON.Lab (Open Networking Lab) ONF (Open Networking Foundation) ONRC (Open Networking Research Center) OpenDaylight Foundation Openet OpenStack Foundation Openwave Mobility Opera Software OPNFV (Open Platform for NFV) Optelian Oracle Corporation Orchestral networks OVA (Open Virtualization Alliance) Overture Networks OX (Open-Xchange) Ozono Security Packet Ship Technologies Paddy Power Betfair Padtec Palo Alto Networks Panda Security Pantheon Technologies Parallel Wireless PeerApp Penguin Pertino Pica8 Piston Cloud Computing Plexxi PLUMgrid Pluribus Networks Polatis PowerDNS Procera Networks Produban PT (Portugal Telecom) QCT (Quanta Cloud Technology) Qosmos Qualcomm Quanta Computer Quortus Rackspace RAD Data Communications Radisys Corporation Radware Rapid7 Realtek Semiconductor Corporation Red Hat Redknee RightScale Riverbed Technology Ruckus Wireless Saisei Samsung Electronics Sandvine Sansay Sencore ServiceMesh SevOne Shutterfly Silver Peak Systems SingTel SK Telecom SoftBank SonicWALL Sonus Networks Sophos Sorrento Networks SpiderCloud Wireless Spirent Communications Sprint Corporation StackIQ SunTec Business Solutions Supermicro (Super Micro Computer) Svarog Technology Group Symantec Corporation SysMaster Tail-f Systems Tango Telecom TE Connectivity TE SubCom Tejas Networks Telchemy Telco Systems Telcoware Telefónica Telekom Austria Group Telstra Telum Thomson Video Networks TI (Texas Instruments) Tieto Tilera Corporation TitanHQ TM Forum Transmode Trend Micro Treq Labs Turk Telekom U2 Cloud UBIqube UBM Tech Ultra Electronics AEP UTStarcom vArmour Vello Systems Verizon Versa Networks Veryx Technologies Viavi Solutions Vipnet VMware Vodafone Group WatchGuard Technologies Wavenet WebNMS Wedge Networks Wind River Wipro Wowza Media Systems Xilinx XOR Media Xtera Communications Xura Zhone Technologies Zoho Corporation ZTE
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