US SD-WAN Enterprise Survey: Adoption Trends by Business Size

In this report, Frost & Sullivan provides a detailed analysis of the 2021 US SD-WAN survey conducted among different business sizes on their preferences for SD-WAN. The survey respondents are C-suite and IT/network decision-makers among different business sizes, including small businesses (250 to 499 employees), mid-size businesses (500 to 999 employees), large businesses (1,000 to 4,999 employees), and very large businesses (5,000 and more employees) that spread across verticals such as financial services, healthcare, retail, government, technology, and manufacturing. The survey focuses on evaluating the benefits achieved from SD-WAN deployment, trends in replacing existing networking equipment with SD-WAN CPE, parameters while selecting an SD-WAN solution, and preferences in buying and managing an SD-WAN solution. All sizes of the US businesses surveyed indicated aggressive deployment of SD-WAN solutions across branch locations as part of their digital transformation initiative. With the benefits they have achieved mainly during the COVID-19 pandemic that led to the remote working model, businesses are now planning to deploy their second SD-WAN solution in the next two years. The Frost & Sullivan 2021 SD-WAN survey validates SD-WAN adoption trends across different business sizes and how IT decision-makers in the United States value improvement in application performance, optimization of IT personnel, centralized policy administration and network management, and embracement of a cloud-first strategy when deploying SD-WAN. Author: Amrit Singh