Key Benefits of SD-WAN Solution Elevate Market Revenues to More than $300 Million
Frost & Sullivan highlights that an overarching number of respondents would prefer to buy SD-WAN from a managed service provider
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Feb. 20, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Software-defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN) technology is remodeling the way enterprises deploy hybrid networks. While Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) has long dominated the enterprise WAN space, the emergence of SD-WAN is questioning the status quo of MPLS-only WAN, or a static hybrid WAN consisting of MPLS and Internet links. In an SD-WAN deployment, the underlying transport network is abstracted, and a centralized controller uses intelligent, application-aware software to route traffic over the optimal network technology, based on business policies.
With an increase of SD-WAN solution's adoption, market revenues exceeded $300 million in 2017. According to Frost & Sullivan, 7 percent of enterprise IT decision-makers stated they had deployed SD-WAN; and 23 percent of them stated they planned to deploy SD-WAN in the next 12 to 24 months.
Frost & Sullivan's new white paper, Fast-track Your SD-WAN Journey by Partnering with a Managed Service Provider, highlights why enterprises are adopting SD-WAN, the benefits of a managed SD-WAN service over the do-it-yourself (DIY) approach, and how MetTel can help.
"While the ability to software-define the WAN is a cutting-edge approach to WAN deployments, compared to the hardware-centric approach in the past, deploying and managing the underlying WAN infrastructure involves some heavy lifting from the enterprise IT departments," explains Roopa Honnachari, Business Communication Services & Cloud Computing Industry Director at Frost & Sullivan. "The process can be daunting when it involves multiple transport and access providers globally. That is where a managed SD-WAN service can help."
"Considering the rapid updates in technology and the digital transformation businesses are enduring to stay competitive in their market spaces today, it is clear why companies are choosing Communication Service Providers like MetTel to provide Network-as-a-Service," says Ed Fox, Vice President of Network Services at MetTel. "We ensure the most optimal connections in the legacy MPLS networks as well as the public peering space to smooth the anomalies present in those networks and give the client the proverbial 'easy button.'"
The MetTel SD-WAN deployment offers key advantages for businesses:
- Cost Savings: Enables a cost-efficient use of public Internet and private networks. The ease of deployment and centralized control eliminates the need for a network engineer at every location, resulting in lower network management costs.
- Agility: Transport routing changes can be made in real-time. The underlying transport infrastructure is abstracted, pooled and assigned to applications, based on software-defined policies.
- Speed to Market: SD-WAN CPE completely reduces the time required to add new branch sites, as the CPE is a plug-and-play device that can be configured without oversight by on-site network personnel.
- Application-ware Routing: The SD-WAN controller defines the network policies for applications on branch routers, and chooses a path that best suits the application traffic. Real-time monitoring of traffic paths ensures that problems related to availability and reliability are sensed before they affect the users; and traffic can be routed to a different path, if necessary.
- Optimized Cloud Connectivity: An SD-WAN solution optimizes WANs for cloud connectivity, thus resulting in cost savings by eliminating the need for MPLS links at all sites.
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