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Gartner’s Magic Quadrant For WAN Edge Infrastructure: Cisco Makes A Comeback
Gina Narcisi
The 2020 report saw Cisco bounce back in the leadership quadrant and four more players up their SD-WAN games enough to be named leaders. Here are the vendors that made the cut.
Challenger: Huawei
Shenzhen, China-based telecom and networking heavyweight Huawei is addressing the WAN edge market with its CloudWAN, NetEngine AR series of routers, and HiSecEngine USG series gateways.
A dominant vendor in China, Huawei has experience and proven scale with extremely large deployments and its broad portfolio in APAC but has very little presence in North America. Gartner also said that Huawei‘s geographic limitations stifled cloud-based orchestration and the company has been late in addressing key public cloud services integration requirements globally.
Huawei‘s well-balanced, scalable WAN edge product has expanding 5G capabilities to support various industry use cases, Gartner said.
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