The reduction in operational costs, enhancement of workforce skills, and flexibility in custom requirements are some of the growth drivers for the global network management services market. The managed network services market is witnessing accelerated growth, because of the penetration of technologies including cloud computing, mobility, and big data across different industry verticals. The enhanced customer satisfaction and business process efficiency and are some of the other growth driving factors for the global managed network services market during the forecast period. The managed network service is delivered in form of cloud infrastructure service or managed in-house, and installed by the service providers. From big data to hybrid cloud, e-commerce to hosting, managed network service providers facilitate the proper functioning of network in every organization. The emerging technologies, such as software defined networking (SDN) and internet of things (IoT) are expected to provide huge growth opportunities for the managed network services market in the near future.
The managed networking services allow the organizations to focus on their key business goals, by facilitating them to outsource their network infrastructure and operations, partially or entirely. Due to the scarcity of time, funds, expert systems, and resources, organizations are facing tough competition. By eliminating capital expenditures, the managed network services help organizations to minimize the cost, which occurs on operational expenditures and network and information technology (IT) spending. It offers efficiency in organizations by providing differentiation in business and helps them to avail a competitive advantage.
To withstand in this vibrant business environment, the demand of new companies requires better expertise and is highly complex. The managed networking services use skilled resources and provide flexibility for the companies to expand and diversify. The managed networking services mainly involve the existence of “telecom operators” to provide network architecture services, such as implementation, design, and monitoring services to their existing complex IT structure.
North America dominated the global managed network services (MNS) market followed by Asia-Pacific, in 2014. With the huge growth potential in countries, such as China and India, Asia-Pacific (APAC) and Middle East and Africa (MEA) are anticipated to provide high growth opportunities for the market. On the basis of organization size, the medium business segment is growing among emerging and mature markets. The telecommunication and public sector industry verticals occupy a substantial share in the managed network services market. The managed services market is expected to grow efficiently with a high growth rate, among small and medium sized businesses in the near future. However, the concerns for privacy and security are some of the challenges, obstructing the growth of the global managed network services market.
Nokia Solutions and Networks, Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd., FUJITSU, Ericsson, Alcatel-Lucent, Accenture, Computer Sciences Corp, Cisco Systems Inc., AT&T Inc. are some of the competitors of the global managed network services (MNS) market.
Global Managed Network Services Market Segmentation
By Component
- Managed LAN/WAN Networks
- Managed IP Telephony
- Managed IP/VPN
- Managed Ethernet Links
- Managed Video Conferencing/ Telepresence
By Service Type
- Managed Network Design Services
- Managed Network Monitoring Services
- Managed Network Implementation Services
- Support and Maintenance Services
By Organization Size
- Small Businesses
- Medium Businesses
- Large Enterprises
By Industry Vertical
- Banking, Financial Services, and Insurance (BFSI)
- Retail
- Public Sector
- Media and Business Services
- Healthcare and Life Sciences
- Telecommunication and IT
- Energy and Resources
- Transport and Logistics
- Manufacturing Industries
By Geography
- North America
- Europe
- Asia -Pacific
- ROW
