In May and June 2023, Frost & Sullivan conducted a global survey of network decision-makers to understand businesses’ perceptions, decisions, and purchases regarding SD-WAN and SASE. This report examines responses from US businesses of different sizes that are categorized as small (10 to 99 employees), mid-size (100 to 499 employees), and large (more than 500 employees) businesses spread across verticals such as financial services, healthcare, retail, education, government, technology, and manufacturing. The results provide a glimpse of enterprise decision processes, including SD-WAN deployment trends among US businesses, benefits businesses achieved from deploying an SD-WAN solution and challenges faced during deployment, SD-WAN buying preference and SASE adoption trends, reasons for SASE deployment, SASE adoption challenges, preferred partners for SASE deployment, and the most preferred partner for all size of businesses’ network services needs.

The Frost & Sullivan 2023 enterprise network survey validates that US businesses are aggressively deploying an SD-WAN solution across branch locations as part of their digital transformation initiative. In addition, some businesses are implementing SASE while others are learning and analyzing the benefits of SASE deployments.

Author: Amrit Singh