[207 pages Report]The total market is expected to grow from $3.23 billion in 2013 to $5.82 billion by 2018, at an estimated Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 12.5% from 2013 to 2018.

The application delivery Network (ADN) is a suite of technologies that provide application availability, security, visibility and acceleration. ADN is a combination of WAN optimization and application delivery control. At the data center end of ADN, resides application delivery controller (ADC) device, which are used to control and monitor the application traffic and performance. It is an advanced traffic management device also known as, web switch or content switch, which distributes the traffic among servers located in geographically dispersed locations. At the branch office portion of ADN, WAN optimization controllers reside which uses caching techniques to reduce the number of bits that flow over the network and direct the TCP traffic.

Application delivery networking solutions find applications in the verticals, such as: High-tech, healthcare, Retail, Government, BFSI and media and entertainment segments.

The Application delivery Network market sub segments comprises of: Application Delivery Controllers (ADCs); WAN optimization controllers (WOCs) and application security equipments and application gateways. In 2013, ADC accounts for the highest market share in total ADN market and in 2018 also, it is expected to be the highest revenue generating segment in the overall ADN market.

The Y-o-Y growth rates of Application Security Equipment will be on the higher side throughout the forecast period. Few high growth markets are:

High-tech market: application delivery optimization and control

Education: Online tutorials and applications for Education and learning management systems.

Media and Entertainment: Video applications, chatting, messages, social networking sites, e-commerce.

MarketsandMarkets expects the High-tech, Education and Media and Entertainment segments will show tremendous growth throughout the forecast period. However, there are few revenue pockets, namely BFSI, healthcare and Government segments, will show significant increase in this period.

Major challenges faced by the vendors in this space is increase proliferation of online business applications and increased in number of mobile devices which causes complexity in delivering the applications and finds difficulty in catering to the huge internet data traffic.

There are various assumptions that we have taken into consideration for market sizing and forecasting exercise. Few of global assumptions include political, economic, social, technological and economic factors. For instance, exchange rates, one of the economic factors, are expected to have a moderate rating of impact on this market. Therefore, dollar fluctuations are expected to not seriously affect the forecasts in the emerging APAC regions.

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This report segments the market into devices and applications, covering this market comprehensively. The report provides the closest approximations of the revenue numbers for the overall market and the sub-segments. The market numbers are further split across the different verticals and regions. This report will help them better understand the competitor and gain more insights to better position their business. There is a separate section on competitive landscape, including competitor ecosystem, mergers and acquisition and venture capital funding. Besides, there are company profiles of 20 top players in this market. In this section, market internals are provided that can put them ahead of the competitors. The report helps them understand the pulse of the market. The report provides information on key market drivers, restraints, challenges, and opportunities.

The network traffic patterns have dramatically changed in the past decade from transaction-oriented applications to bandwidth-intensive applications, supporting ERPs, video, voice and unstructured data. The new advent of virtualization, cloud-computing, and big-data has augmented the demand for highly efficient and secure corporate networks. The biggest challenge for enterprises today is to combat the tough competitive environments, while enhancing their productivity. Enterprises are now emphasizing on ensuring security and quickly responding to the changing business needs; thereby optimizing and securing the flow of data, to all users, on all networks, while also helping in sustainable competitive advantage.

The Application Delivery Network technology deals with the demand for greater application mobility and security in a distributed enterprise. ADN helps in classifying and prioritizing applications, content, and user access in real-time. It helps in acceleration of internal, external, and real-time applications across distributed enterprises. The technology also helps in securing information from malicious applications and content, while delivering fast, secure, and available applications across the enterprise, while controlling the rising network management costs. Application Performance Monitoring (APM), WAN optimization, and secure web gateway technologies are combined together by ADN to give a complete visibility and control over user and application performance. Due to this, critical applications and information can be delivered for business needs.

This report gives detailed insights into the global Application Delivery Network market split across various products, regions, verticals, and type of end-users and end-user environments. The product segment includes controllers, application security equipment, and application gateways; type of end-user environment includes cloud service providers, telecommunications providers, and enterprise environments. This report also emphasizes on key adoption trends, future opportunities, and business cases in this innovative market. MarketsandMarkets expects an increasing adoption of ADN solutions, as major vendors are rigorously working towards building cost-effective solutions, in an effort to reduce the overall cost incurred by end-users. The total market is expected to grow from $3.23 billion in 2013 to $5.82 billion by 2018, at an estimated Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 12.5% from 2013 to 2018.

APPLICATION DELIVERY NETWORK, MARKET SIZE, 2013 � 2018 ($BILLION)

Source: MarketsandMarkets Analysis