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SASE is Putting the Nail in the Coffin for Access Routers as Market Drops 25 Percent in 3Q2025, According to Dell'Oro Group
According to a recently published report from Dell'Oro Group, the trusted source for market information about the telecommunications, security, networks, and data center industries, the global Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) market grew 21 percent year-over-year (Y/Y) in 3Q 2025 to nearly $3 B, even as spending on legacy Access Routers contracted a sharp 25 percent. Against this backdrop, SASE is increasingly positioned as the default architecture for branch, remote, and cloud access as enterp
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