Forrester Highlights Private 5G Momentum, OneLayer Is Seeing a Growing Demand

Private 5G is growing.

We see it in our own experience: over the past year, OneLayer has multiplied our footprint more than five times in the market. This is “not just in terms of number of customers, but also in terms of each customer’s network maturity and the number of use cases and challenges they ask us to solve,” as our CEO and Co-founder, Dave Mor, told RCR Wireless News.

But we also see the growth of private 5G reflected in external coverage and focus. Just in the past two months, acclaimed research and advisory firm Forrester has published two separate reports on the private 5G industry: The State Of Private 5G, 2025, which mentions OneLayer as a private 5G security vendor, further validating our leadership in the domain, and The Private 5G Services Landscape, Q2 2025.

Let’s look at the growth outlined in these Forrester reports, compare it with our own experience, and share some insights on the current state and future direction of private 5G.

Expanding use cases

The State Of Private 5G, 2025 Forrester report describes private 5G drivers, benefits, and major use cases across various industries.

We see this variety in the customers for our private 5G network security and asset management platform.

Our customers come from the utilities market, from manufacturing, seaports and airports, oil and gas, logistics, mining, and almost any other OT sector you can think of.

The majority of enterprises that work with us are based in North America, Latin America, Europe, and the Middle East, but we’ve heard from organizations from every corner of the world. Private 5G is everywhere. As demand grows globally, we’re focused on deepening our presence across these regions and preparing to expand into APAC as the market evolves.

It’s not only the number of potential and actual use cases that is expanding; it is their size and scale.

Over a year ago, we remarked on the transition we were seeing in platform inquiries: from private 5G network pilots with hundreds of devices to fully operational networks with tens of thousands.

But tens of thousands is now small change. To date, OneLayer’s largest customer uses our platform to secure over 1.5 million assets in a utilities network.

Everything is growing, and there is no reason to expect that growth will slow.

Unifying the enterprise network

A significant focus of Forrester’s The State Of Private 5G, 2025 report is how “Private 5G Is Here To Drive The Next Generation Of Enterprise Connectivity”, partially by how it “Addresses Legacy Wireless Technology Challenges”.

There are multiple challenges inherent in bringing enterprise networks that include legacy wireless technology, like Wi-Fi, into the next generation of function. It is in the context of solving security issues stemming from the use of legacy wireless technologies with the private 5G network that OneLayer is mentioned as a vendor in the report.

Indeed, the security issues that arise when integrating a new private 5G enterprise network with legacy wireless technologies were some of the primary reasons behind the creation of OneLayer:

• The blind spots caused by legacy devices that connect to private cellular networks via cellular routers.
• The differing network topologies and device identification standards—legacy IT systems use IP and MAC addresses, while cellular networks rely on IMSI and IMEI identifiers.
• The “talking past each other” problem, where cellular networks and IT/OT security systems don’t speak the same language or interoperate effectively.

OneLayer’s vision was to enable enterprises that wanted the benefits of private 5G networks to have visibility of every single asset, all together, in one system. To unify all wireless enterprise technology, securely.

We are proud to have achieved that vision, and we are looking toward the next generation of enterprise connectivity, and the next. We are preparing for the future trajectory of enterprise networks, which we see as the unification of different systems. As Dave explains, “The five-year horizon is about managing devices in and out of private networks at scale, in a way that adheres to security across enterprise networks. Ten years down the road, these networks are part of the enterprise stack, integrated with Wi-Fi and IoT. They won’t be treated in silos anymore. We will likely evolve beyond cellular as well, to cover Wi-Fi, LoRaWAN, and other technologies used in the enterprise setting.”

Private 5G is growing.

OneLayer is growing with it.

Here’s to growth!