Enterprise networking is the transport system for advanced technologies on-premises and in the cloud. The landscape of data center networking has shifted in the past few years to focus less on cloud computing and direct Internet access, and now is primarily focused on providing high-speed interconnections for AI workloads. Bandwidth is increasing rapidly as AI models evolve and require more and more resources to execute in a reasonable amount of time. Innovation in the market must also embrace sustainability to ensure that development doesn’t outpace the ability of modern data center infrastructure to provide power and cooling.
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Market Taxonomy
The submarkets Futurum's Market Data model sizes and forecasts across this practice.
Campus Ethernet switches, wireless LAN, and campus fabric and access.
Leaf-spine DC switches, interconnect, NICs and DPUs, and fabric automation.
DWDM and OTN transport, coherent optics, and fiber infrastructure.
Fibre Channel SAN fabrics and InfiniBand interconnect.
SD-WAN, WAN edge routers, optimization, and managed WAN.
Monitoring, automation and orchestration, AIOps, and experience monitoring.
Subscription campus, WAN, and cloud-managed networking.
Native cloud networking and multi-cloud connectivity.
DDI (DNS, DHCP, and IPAM) and content delivery networks.
NGFW, SASE and SSE, NAC, IDS and IPS, and DDoS mitigation.
Edge routers, IoT and industrial networking, and multi-access edge compute.
ADCs, cloud load balancing, and service mesh.
Also decomposed by industry vertical and region.
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