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Report reveals significant growth for 2021 SD-WAN market
The reports says Cisco was the revenue share leader for the first half of 2021 and Fortinet climbed into the number two position . VMware , Versa and HPE Aruba rounded out the top five “ Demand for SD- WAN solutions was robust in the first half of the year , sustaining the momentum we saw at the backend of last year ,” said Shin Umeda , Vice President at Dell ’ Oro Group .
“ The SD-WAN market continues to expand globally and while all regions posted solid double-digit growth , uptake in Europe and Asia was especially strong .”
Additional highlights from the 2Q 2021 SD-WAN Report include :
The worldwide SD-WAN market grew 39 % over the first half of 2021 compared to the previous year , according to a report published by the Dell ’ Oro Group .
• The top six SD-WAN vendors garnered more than 70 % market share for the first half of 2021 .
• Vendors are increasingly leveraging security functionality to differentiate their SD-WAN solutions in this highly competitive market .
• The market for hardware-based access routers declined at a midsingle-digit rate during the first half of 2021 , highlighting the market shift to software-based SD-WAN solutions .
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Interxion : A Digital Realty Company announces opening of data centre in Paris
Interxion : A Digital Realty Company and leading European provider of carrier and cloud neutral colocation data centre solutions , has announced the opening of its latest European data centre in Paris .
The new facility is expected provide up to 12MW of IT load capacity and eight data halls providing over 690m 2 of new colocation facilities .
Located less than 30km east of Paris , PAR12 is Interxion ’ s 12th data centre in the French capital region and is designed to deliver a dynamic community for customers to deploy network hubs on PlatformDIGITAL , a first of its kind global data centre platform for scaling digital business .
Ideally situated in Ferrières-en-Brie , the new development is the third hub in the Paris region designed to meet the growing needs of cloud service providers seeking to improve the resilience of their services .
In addition , the new data centre will allow enterprise customers to deploy Disaster Recovery scenarios from Paris and the east of France using the available low latency networks deployed along the A4 motorway . As part of PlatformDIGITAL ’ s strategic development in France , PAR12 will enable customers to deploy their critical infrastructure with a global data centre provider in one of Europe ’ s leading cloud and interconnection hubs that has been developed over the last 20 years .
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