SD-WAN startups, vendors & acquisitions

One of the popular Software Defined Networks (SDN) use-cases is Software Defined WAN (SD-WAN). A number of SD-WAN startups and vendors are trying to solve the WAN challenge in their own unique way. Several of those startups got acquired in the last few years. IDC predicts that SD-WAN market will reach $4.5 billion by 2022. No wonder, why the SD-WAN market is sizzling hot with a lot of mergers and acquisitions. This blog post tracks the SD-WAN startups, SD-WAN vendors and SD-WAN acquisitions.

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Start-ups offering SD-WAN Solution:

1. Pertino / Acquired by Cradlepoint / Acquired on Dec 2015 / Cost: Undisclosed
2. Ocedo / Acquired by Riverbed / Acquired on Jan 2016 / Cost: Undisclosed
3. Velocloud / Acquired by VMWare / Acquired on Nov 2017 / Cost: Undisclosed
4. Viptela / Acquired by Cisco Systems / Acquired on May 2017 / Cost: $610 million
5. Talari Networks / Acquired by Oracle / Acquired on Nov 2018 / Cost: Undisclosed
6. 128 Technologies - Not Acquired
7. Aryaka - Not acquired
8. BigLeaf - Not Acquired
9. CatoNetworks - Not acquired
10. CloudGenix / Acquired by Palo Alto / Acquired on Apr 2020 / Cost: $420 million
11. COSGrid Networks - Not acquired
12. Ecessa - Not acquired
13. Gluware - Not acquired
14. Lavelle Networks - Not acquired
15. Mode - Not acquired
16. Multiapplied Networks - Not acquired (SaaS)
17. Mushroom Networks - Not acquired
18. Open Systems - Not acquired
19. Silver Peak - Not acquired
20. SimpleWAN - Not acquired
21. Turnium - Not acquired
22. TeloIP - Not acquired (SaaS)
23. Versa Networks - Not acquired
24. Zenlayer - Not acquired
25. Untangle - Not acquired

Other Vendors offering SD-WAN Solution:

1. Barracuda Networks
2. Cyient
3. Citrix
4. Elfiq Networks
5. FatPipe Networks
6. Juniper Networks
7. Nuage Networks (Nokia)
8. Ribbon Communications (previously Sonus Networks)
9. Teldat
10. Virtela Networks (NTT Global)
11. Forcepoint
12. Watchguard

Also read: SDN Acquisitions