Here’s the chart from the Gartner report:

This author is astonished and perplexed that Gartner lumped service providers, network equipment makers and systems integrators into the same set of leaders and challengers. That’s like comparing apples to oranges to pineapples?

Steve Saunders strongly criticized the report, noting that “Five companies lead the private 5G network (equipment/software) market: Ericsson, Huawei, Nokia, Samsung, and ZTE. Challengers include Cisco, IBM, Juniper, and Mavenir (though none of them make their own 5G chips or have the same level of 5G juju as the 5G Big 5).   Gartner’s new Magic Quadrant omits six (!) of these vendors, including Huawei, whose technology underlies literally hundreds of private 5G networks.”

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Inclusion and Exclusion Criteria:

• At least 20 direct, deployed commercial contracts or 20 direct, deployed commercial sites (excluding POCs) for 4G and 5G private mobile network services managed by the vendor, where it is the prime contractor with the enterprise (end user)

• At least 25% of commercial contracts (excluding POCs) for 4G and 5G private mobile

• Commercial contracts in two or more regions where the vendor is the prime contractor, (excluding POCs) for 4G and 5G private mobile network services provided by the vendor. Regions are defined as follows:
  • North America
  • Latin America
  • Western Europe
  • Eastern Europe
  • Eurasia
  • Greater China
  • Emerging Asia/Pacific
  • Mature Asia/Pacific
  • Middle East and North Africa
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Other
• At least two or more commercial contracts won where the vendor is the prime contractor, (excluding POCs) for 4G and 5G private mobile network services managed by the vendor in the last 12 months
• Provide the following capabilities defined in this Magic Quadrant as prime contractor or through a third party:
  • Network end-to-end sourcing
  • Network design
  • Implementation and integration
  • Service management and support

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• Scope of the offering, and planned or ongoing investments in the following segments in terms of capabilities covered in this Magic Quadrant and specific offerings per segment, preintegrated functions with ecosystem partners, productized versus project-based offering for each segment, and geographical availability of each of the offerings (global/regional/local):
  • Dedicated/stand-alone
  • Hybrid PMN
  • PMN with core network slicing
  • Campus and level of integration with WLAN solutions
  • PMN for industrial sites including OT security capabilities and compliance
  • Multisite, including management capabilities to provide a centralized life cycle management experience for all included sites
  • PMN offering for small and midsize businesses
• PMN-related acquisitions or strategic partnerships to add capabilities to the PMN offering
• Radio planning and site survey capabilities
• Modularity of the offer
• Flexibility to offer an open partner ecosystem for core PMN elements (radio, core network, monitoring and life cycle management, edge/cloud computing infrastructure stack, SIM management)
• Public network integration (private/public handover features)
• Service management options (self-service, co-managed, fully managed service)
• API capabilities
• Bundling capabilities with other related prepackaged technologies and services such as IoT, MEC, managed mobility, cloud, security, industry-edge application

• The design, logic and execution of the vendor’s business proposition to achieve continued success
• The value proposition, revenue models, customer segmentation, distribution channels, etc.
• Appropriate use of build/buy/partner options to maximize profitability
• Management of customization costs
• Use of automation to improve cost-efficiency

• Scope of the spectrum offered: regulated and industrial spectrum (CBRS type)
• Proof of concept models
• Flexibility offering capex and opex models
• Flexibility to bring your own partners

References:

https://www.gartner.com/doc/reprints?id=1-2J9ZQDL4&ct=241105&st=sb

https://www.fierce-network.com/wireless/op-ed-gartner-biffs-its-new-4g5g-magic-quadrant

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/solutions/private-5g-networks.html

https://www.celona.io/the-state-of-private-wireless

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