Abstract

This IDC study provides a worldwide forecast for managed edge services covering the 2021–2025 period. The managed edge services market is nascent with service providers engaged in many POCs in 2021 for both on-premises and service provider edge deployments. This forecast, however, reflects revenue in 2020, which is mostly dominated by edge applications provided by CDN providers.

"Managed edge services represent a significant monetization opportunity for service providers to capitalize on their investment in edge compute," says Ghassan Abdo, research VP, Worldwide Telecom, Virtualization, and CDN, IDC. "The most promising use cases will result in process efficiency benefits to enterprises and drive a more engaging customer online experience."

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