Dell'Oro sees SASE market reaching $24 billion by 2030 on SD-WAN, SSE growth

Dell'Oro Group says the global SASE market is set to grow at a 15% annual rate and top $24 billion in 2030 as SD-WAN demand and SSE revenue streams expand.

Dell'Oro Group said the global Secure Access Service Edge market is forecast to reach $24 billion in 2030, up 15% at a compound annual growth rate, according to a release published Aug. 11 by PR Newswire from Redwood City, Calif.

Dell'Oro said the market would more than double from 2025 levels by 2030.

The company said the forecast rests on two main drivers: renewed demand for software-defined wide area networking, or SD-WAN, and expanded monetization of Security Service Edge, or SSE, beyond core access, inspection and policy enforcement.

In the release, Dell'Oro said SD-WAN is benefiting from security- and lifecycle-led branch modernization, stronger software-subscription attach, managed-service adoption and the convergence of routing, SD-WAN and security in common branch platforms.

The firm also said separately monetized Data Security and Digital Experience Management are increasing the value captured through SSE platforms. The release described Data Security as adding discovery, classification, data loss prevention, exposure analysis and exfiltration controls. It said Digital Experience Management measures and troubleshoots the user-to-application experience across endpoint, network, application and SSE telemetry.

Mauricio Sanchez, senior director for enterprise security and networking at Dell'Oro Group, said branch refreshes are increasingly being bought as a single decision that combines connectivity, security exposure, software subscriptions and managed services. He also said Data Security and Digital Experience Management expand the SSE opportunity by adding monetized capabilities above core access and policy-enforcement entitlements.

Dell'Oro identified the forecast as part of its SASE and SD-WAN 5-Year July 2026 Forecast Report. The release said the report includes tables covering SASE by technology and class, SSE core segments including SWG, CASB, ZTNA and FWaaS, and extended SSE segments for Data Security and DEM. It also said the report includes historical data for access routers dating to 1995.

The release said Dell'Oro Group focuses on telecommunications, security, enterprise networks, data center infrastructure and network security markets.

What happens next is not specified in the release.

Sources

• PR Newswire: Stronger SD-WAN and SSE growth lift SASE forecast to $24B by 2030, according to Dell'Oro Group

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