Niche Player: Peplink  

Peplink, a small, Hong Kong-based vendor, is coming to the market with a variety of WAN products including its Balance and Max ruggedized appliances, which deliver wired and wireless SD-WAN.

Peplink, a SMB-focused player, offers a solid, LTE/5G, wireless-focused SD-WAN offering and products suitable for specific industry use cases, such as transportation, public safety and broadcasting. The company is leaning heavily on its limited channel partnerships at all levels of the sales and support cycle, Gartner said.

However, Peplink‘s products lack capabilities in many areas, including security and application performance management with basic SD-WAN capabilities, and limited application recognition and failover criteria, Gartner said.