The global Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) market will grow at a 15% CAGR to revenue of $24-billion by 2030, according to a new forecast report from Dell’Oro Group.
The outlook reflects two complementary sources of strength – renewed SD-WAN momentum and additional Security Service Edge (SSE) monetisation beyond foundational access, inspection, and policy enforcement.
SD-WAN is benefiting from security- and lifecycle-led branch modernisation, stronger software subscription attach, managed-service adoption, and the convergence of routing, SD-WAN, and security in common branch platforms.
At the same time, separately monetised Data Security and Digital Experience Management are expanding the value captured through SSE platforms. Data Security adds advanced discovery, classification, data loss prevention, exposure analysis, and exfiltration controls, while Digital Experience Management measures and troubleshoots the user-to-application experience across endpoint, network, application, and SSE telemetry.
“SD-WAN has regained strength because branch refreshes increasingly combine connectivity, security exposure, software subscriptions, and managed services in a common purchase decision,” says Mauricio Sanchez, senior director, Enterprise Security and Networking at Dell’Oro Group. “Data Security and Digital Experience Management expand the SSE opportunity by creating monetised capabilities above the core access and policy-enforcement entitlement separately.”
Additional highlights from the report include:
- SSE [Core]: Forecast that revenue will rise to over $13-billion in 2030 with CASB, FWaaS, SWG, and ZTNA remaining the foundational access, inspection, and policy-enforcement layer.
- SSE [Extended]: Forecast that separately monetised Data Security and Digital Experience Management (DEM) will grow at over 20% CAGR from 2025 to 2030, adding more than $8-billion in revenue on top of SSE [Core].
- SD-WAN: Forecast that revenue will grow at 14% CAGR supported by stronger subscription attach, managed-service adoption, secure branch refreshes, and revenue shifting from standalone Access Routers.
- Access Routers: Forecast that revenue will experience a 23% annual contraction over the 2025 to 2030 period because policy-rich branch platforms continue replacing basic packet-forwarding systems.