The Outcomes Are In: 2022 WAN Supervisor Survey

Almost three years out from the beginning of the pandemic, enterprise networking is beginning to stabilize.

Let’s rejoice with some insights from our newest and biggest WAN Supervisor Survey.

Key Findings 

• MPLS utilization paused its decline, flattening after a number of years of reducing.
• DIA and MPLS utilization charges will not be removed from converging—solely 3 proportion factors away from each other.
• Center and higher bandwidth ranges are hottest for DIA and broadband whereas MPLS continues to be the dominant product at port sizes 50 Mbps and smaller. 
• SD-WAN set up charges are decrease than anticipated, solely rising 4% since 2020, which is basically as a consequence of longer rollout durations.
• Whereas respondents regard many of the components for adopting SD-WAN we listed as essential, extra respondents are starting to think about safety a crucial characteristic than in years previous. 
• Extra respondents are deciding on unmanaged and co-managed SD-WAN companies than in our final replace. This 12 months, unmanaged companies overtook co-managed plans by 3%.
• All 2022 respondents reported at the very least one IaaS supplier and almost 80% had multiple. Cloud adoption is clearly pretty ubiquitous at this level and multi-cloud is a powerful majority. 
• NaaS options are beginning to achieve curiosity from community managers, though adoption charges are low. 

Concerning the Survey

The 2022 WAN Supervisor Survey report is comprised of 62 survey responses from community managers at distinct corporations. We additionally performed in-depth interviews with eight respondents to contextualize survey solutions.

This 12 months’s survey centered on three key matters:

1. Like in all earlier variations, we requested questions on how networks are at present configured. This included the prominence of MPLS versus different underlay applied sciences, the distribution of assorted bandwidths for these underlay merchandise, and product sourcing methods.
2. We additionally requested about SD-WAN adoption together with sorts of distributors, components for adoption, and administration ranges.
3. Lastly, we requested about cloud connection strategies, cloud suppliers, and NaaS adoption.

Members got here from quite a few industries, ranging in measurement from medium sized enterprises to Fortune 500 enterprises. Collaborating corporations had a median annual 2021 income of about $11 billion and most have been multinational in scope.

Obtain the free government abstract for a more in-depth have a look at our newest survey outcomes.