{"id":53984,"date":"2023-10-05T15:43:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-05T15:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.networkworld.com\/article\/3708288\/generative-ai-set-to-reshape-sd-wan-market.html#tk.rss_security"},"modified":"2023-10-05T15:43:00","modified_gmt":"2023-10-05T15:43:00","slug":"generative-ai-set-to-reshape-sd-wan-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/generative-ai-set-to-reshape-sd-wan-market\/","title":{"rendered":"Generative AI set to reshape SD-WAN market"},"content":{"rendered":"
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There are baseline security and connectivity requirements for any SD-WAN<\/a> service, and then there are optional, emerging product capabilities that indicate how the market is maturing and customer requirements are expanding. AI networking support \u2013 such as for proactive remediation and incident management \u2013 is one of those optional capabilities, according to Gartner, which just released its latest analysis of the SD-WAN vendor landscape.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a trend toward AI capabilities<\/a> that enable networking decisions to be made with little or no human intervention. These capabilities can help enterprises to streamline network design, configuration and ongoing management as well as increase agility and improve performance, according to Gartner. The research firm predicts that by 2026, generative AI technology embedded in SD-WAN offerings will be used for 20% of initial network configuration, up from near zero in 2023.<\/p>\n

\u201cAlthough it is still early in many vendors\u2019 product development, we are seeing this functionality incorporated into an increasing number of vendor solutions offering differentiation. The longer-term challenge will be customer trust in using such solutions,\u201d Gartner wrote in its new Magic Quadrant for SD-WAN.<\/p>\n

Among the vendors that are working to build AI networking support into their respective SD-WAN products is Fortinet. \u201cFortinet\u2019s planned innovations in GenAI and \u2018as a service\u2019 consumption models have an above-average chance of delivering game-changing capabilities to the market,\u201d Gartner wrote.<\/p>\n

Huawei, dubbed a challenger in the field of SD-WAN vendors, is expected to invest in its AI-driven predictive route selection and AI-based IoT terminal authorization and access over the next 18 months, Gartner said. Versa Networks, too, has a product roadmap that aligns with emerging requirements for AI networking, according to the report.<\/p>\n

Another trend that\u2019s influencing the SD-WAN market is the shift toward secure access service edge (SASE<\/a>) offerings. According to Gartner\u2019s definition, SASE combines five major technologies: cloud-access security broker, secure web gateway, zero-trust network access, integrated SD-WAN, and firewall as a service. Security service edge (SSE<\/a>) is a security-focused subset of SASE, and it typically includes CASB, SWG, and ZTNA.<\/p>\n