Kaleido Intelligence, an IoT connectivity and roaming research and consulting firm, has released its latest Private Network Vendor Hub, presenting the industry’s most comprehensive product assessment and competitive analysis of private network vendors.
The Private Networks Vendor Hub: Competitive Analysis 2025-26 research analysed 49 established and emerging private network service providers. It includes an in-depth evaluation of the private network service offerings, as well as a taxonomy to firmly identify each vendor’s place in the overall market.
The study is the culmination of more than 5 months’ worth of primary and secondary research, including product demos, questionnaires and detailed interviews and briefings to collect relevant information.
8 vendors achieve champion status in analysis of changing market
Druid Software, Ericsson, Nokia, NTT DATA, Syniverse, Tata Communications, Telefónica Tech and ZTE all achieved Champion status in their respective categories.
The Number 1 and Champion vendors across key private network product segments as scored by Kaleido Intelligence are included in the accompanying infographic.
Additionally, 20 vendors were recognised as Kaleido High Flyers across the 4 categories. This recognition highlights companies with a strong and comprehensive industry offering. They consistently outperform expectations in technical leadership and innovation, making them highly capable and valuable partners.
Prakash Sadagopan, the head of mission critical enterprise, global sales and customer organisation at Nokia: “Nokia is proud to retain its #1 Champion vendor position for the third consecutive year in Kaleido Intelligence’s 2025-26 Private Network Vendor Hub report. This recognition, based on Kaleido’s extensive analysis of over 70 vendors, reaffirms Nokia’s leadership in mission-critical private wireless. Leveraging our deep telecommunications industry expertise, we designed the world’s leading fit-for-mission critical enterprise networks. Our solutions deliver secure, trusted and deterministic autonomous networks and innovate to help accelerate digitalisation in industrial segments, utilities, railways and public sectors.”
Parm Sandhu, the vice president of enterprise 5G products and services at NTT DATA, said:
“NTT DATA’s continued recognition as a Kaleido Intelligence Champion reflects our ability to help enterprises move beyond experimentation to real-world impact. Our Private 5G network and Edge AI compute platform, backed by strong global delivery and managed services, enable customers to scale secure, high-performance networks that support advanced AI-driven use cases to next-generation industrial automation.
Francisco Javier Martínez Borreguero, the Industry 4.0 head at Telefónica Tech: “Being recognised by Kaleido as the #1 Champion Vendor in Private Network Management validates the strength of our end-to-end model and our commitment to delivering robust, flexible and future-ready industrial connectivity. Our extensive experience deploying private networks across Europe and Latin America shows how these solutions are enabling the transformation of industries such as mining, manufacturing and ports. This recognition reinforces Telefónica Tech’s dedication to providing scalable, interoperable solutions that accelerate our customers’ industrial digitalisation.”
“The Private Network ecosystem has undergone several shifts in the past year, but the leading players have continued to innovate in the space,” remarked research author James Moar. “We’re seeing more AI integrations and flexible tools deployed to help with network management, as well as several new hardware features that will ultimately move the space towards a more plug-and-play environment. Innovation is not only confined to the leading players, however, and some highly capable challengers are emerging who offer exciting new capabilities to the market.”
Nokia and NTT DATA maintain product excellence
Nokia has been rated the #1 vendor for private network software and hardware for the third year running, as well as retaining Champion status for its end-to-end managed service offering and strong industrial edge computing and network monitoring solutions. NTT also remains a Champion for Private Network Management, with a solid integrated offering, large ecosystem of software partners and connectivity management tools, both as an integrator and through its subsidiary Transatel.
The leadership scoring analysis for 49 different private network vendors is summarised in the Private Networks Vendor Hub 2025-26 report, along with an assessment of company strengths and opportunities. Kaleido’s Vendor Hub assessment entails categorising vendors based on their product excellence, recognising each company’s distinct market positioning, problem-solving skills and their ability to align with current market needs and future demands.
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