THE RISE OFSECURESD-WAN

All data from original Frost & Sulivan research: “2016 Enterprise WAN Adoption Trends,” August, 2017.

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WHAT’S DRIVING CHANGESIN WAN ADOPTION?

CHOOSING THE RIGHT WAN SOLUTION

MARKETS ARE MOVING TO SD-WAN

TOP 2 REASONSfor switching WAN services:

Top 4 criteria for selecting a WAN service:

TOP 3 WAN services adoptions in

NEXT 12 TO 24 MONTHS:

CHANGES in adoption rate over theNEXT 12 TO 24 MONTHS:

TOP 2 PRIORTIESfor network/IT decision makers:

Improve network performance and reliability

Network security

Improve operational efficiency

70% of respondents rated NETWORK SECURITY as THE MOST IMPORTANT criteria.

Adequate gauranteed bandwidth

Reliability/Quality of service

Network and IT Investments are more alligned with business goals

Network security is of utmost importance as the network is an enabler of all other enterprise solutions

Improve connectivity to cloud-based applications

SD-WAN +10%

EVPL - 8%

E-LAN - 16%

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1 2 3 4

SD-WAN

1

EVPL

2E-LAN

(Ethernet Virtual Private

Line)

(Ethernet multipoint

-to-multipoint)

3