Gartner® Hype Cycle™ for Enterprise Networking 2026
The Gartner Hype Cycle for Enterprise Networking, 2026 signals a clear inflection point: legacy WAN infrastructure is giving way to software-driven, cloud-native connectivity. Gartner places cross-cloud networking, alternative WAN backbone services (XBaaS), and AI network fabric among the highest-priority innovations in enterprise networking — driven by distributed AI workloads, multicloud architectures, and escalating security demands....




