Total SASE market to nearly triple by 2026

The SSE portion of SASE is expected to be twice the size of SD-WAN

The total SASE market will exceed $13bn by 2026, a new report has suggested.

Research from Dell'Oro Group divides the total SASE market into its two technology components, Security Service Edge (SSE) and SD-WAN.

It found that within SSE, secure web gateway and cloud access security broker are expected to remain the most significant revenue components over the five-year forecast horizon.

However, zero trust network access and firewall-as-a-service are estimated to flourish at a faster rate, according to the findings.

Unified SASE is also expected to exceed disaggregated SASE by almost 6X, while enterprise access router revenue is expected to decline at over 5 percent CAGR over the forecast horizon.

The report also suggested that SSE is expected to double the SD-WAN revenue over the next few years.

"We see SASE continuing to thrive independent of the ongoing macro-economic uncertainty as enterprises strategically invest for the new age of distributed applications and hybrid work that need a different approach to connectivity and security," said Mauricio Sanchez, research director at Dell'Oro Group.

"We anticipate that security will increasingly be the driver and lead SASE's SSE to exhibit over twice the growth of SASE's SD-WAN."