Description

The North American managed SD-WAN market continues to grow as enterprises seek flexibility and control over their network technologies, especially in distributed and branch configurations. SD-WAN technology delivers intelligent routing and security functionality via centrally managed software, simplifying deployments, optimizing network costs, and improving application performance. However, complexity in managing multiple sites while maintaining app performance and security is driving more businesses to choose to outsource all or part of the management functionality. In fact, 60% of network decision makers surveyed by Frost & Sullivan in 2021 chose a managed SD-WAN solution rather than a self-managed approach. Capitalizing on the need is an increasing number of market participants, including network and managed service providers.

In this Frost RadarTM report, Frost & Sullivan assesses 12 leading network and managed service providers in the North American market, analyzing their SD-WAN portfolios based on factors including partnerships with SD-WAN equipment vendors, breadth of underlay network technologies, self-service customer portals, and ability to offer value-added virtualized network functions (e.g., firewalls and routers) and other security solutions such as SASE. The competitive Frost RadarTM mapping is based on quantitative data obtained from the providers
(a combination of operational sites and revenues), and service features.

The Frost Radar™ reveals the market positioning of companies in an industry using their Growth and Innovation scores as highlighted in the
Frost Radar™ methodology. The document presents competitive profiles on each of the companies in the Frost Radar™ based on their strengths, opportunities, and a small discussion on their positioning. Frost & Sullivan analyzes numerous companies in an industry and benchmarks them across 10 criteria on the Frost Radar™, where the leading companies in the industry are then positioned.

Author: Stephen Thomas