IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Application Delivery Tracker® provides historical market share and forecast information for application delivery infrastructure, including application delivery controllers (ADCs) and application delivery controller-as-a-service (ADCaaS) markets. In addition, the ADC market is further segmented by form factor (i.e., appliance and software virtual appliance).

Technology Coverage


The Worldwide Quarterly Application Delivery Tracker provides total market size and vendor share for the following technology areas. Measurement for this tracker is in vendor revenue.

Core Coverage

  • Company and vendor
  • Technology: ADCs and ADCaaS
  • Form factor: Appliance, software virtual appliance, and ADCaaS

Geographic Scope


  • North America
  • Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA)
  • Asia/Pacific (including Japan) (APJ)
  • Latin America

Data Deliverables


This tracker is delivered on a quarterly basis via a web-based interface for online querying and downloads. Deliverables for this tracker are listed below. For a complete delivery schedule, please contact an IDC sales representative.

  • Historical data
  • Forecast data
  • Written analyses, trend explanations, and insights that are further provided by IDC's Worldwide Cloud and Datacenter Networks and IDC's Continuous Intelligence Service (CIS)
  • Petr Jirovsky

    Research Director, Enterprise Network Infrastructure

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    Group Vice President, Worldwide Enterprise Infrastructure Trackers and Americas Data & Analytics Team Lead

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