VSG: 2018 U.S. Carrier Managed SD-WAN LEADERBOARD

Posted on by Alan Weissberger
AT&T, Hughes, Verizon, Windstream, CenturyLink, Aryaka, Fusion and Comcast are the leading providers on the first benchmark for SD-WAN services.
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AT&T was #1 in Vertical Systems Group’s (VSG’s) inaugural leaderboard for the managed software-defined WAN market. Verizon, Windstream and CenturyLink also ranking in the top five for 2018.  The top eight managed SD-WAN companies had the highest market shares of installed carrier managed SD-WAN customer sites in the U.S. at the end of last year.
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VSG said telcos with lots of experience in deploying MPLS, Ethernet and IP technologies are likely to lead in the transition from IP VPN  to SDN.
“Providers in the carrier managed segment of the SD-WAN market have emerged as the best choice for delivering large scale, complex and resilient SD-WAN services end-to-end,” said Rick Malone, principal of Vertical Systems Group, in a prepared statement. “We believe that network operators with deep experience in MPLS, Ethernet and IP are most favorably positioned to support enterprise customers as they transition their networks to SDN.”
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Worldwide revenue for managed SD-WAN, MPLS and site-to-site VPNs combined is currently more than $40 billion. The carrier managed SD-WAN sector accounts for less than 5% of the market.  VSG said that the majority of the carrier managed SD-WAN installs to date have been hybrid configurations that included partial conversions of existing site-to-site and MPLS networks.
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Vertical Systems Group defines a managed SD-WAN service as a carrier-grade network offering for enterprise and business customers, which is managed by a network operator, and delivered over a software-defined network (SDN) service architecture that has separate control (overlay) and data (underlay) planes.

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SD-WAN is one of three managed VPN segments that Vertical Systems tracks, along with MPLS and site-to-site VPNs. The top-five carrier managed SD-WAN companies are also leading providers of dedicated IP VPN services, which included landline and satellite connectivity.

VSG Research Highlights:

SD-WAN is one of the three Managed VPN segments that Vertical tracks, along with MPLS and Site-to-Site VPNs. Service migration analysis shows that the majority of Carrier Managed SD-WAN service installations to date are hybrid configurations that include partial conversions of existing Site-to-Site and MPLS networks.

  • The top five Carrier Managed SD-WAN companies are also the leading providers of Dedicated IP VPN services, including landline and satellite connectivity.
  • A number of SDN-based technologies are utilized to deliver Carrier Managed SD-WAN services. The fourteen LEADERBOARD and Challenge Tier providers use products from the following companies (in alphabetical order): Cisco/Viptela, Silver Peak, Versa, and VMware/VeloCloud, or employ their own internally developed technologies. Several SD-WAN service providers offer multiple solutions.

The 14 leaderboard and challenge tier providers used SD-WAN technologies from Cisco/Viptela, Silver Peak, Versa Networks and VMware/VeloCoud or deploy their own internally developed technologies. Several SD-WAN service providers, such as AT&T, Verizon and CenturyLink, have multiple SD-WAN offerings.

https://www.verticalsystems.com/2019/05/21/2018-sd-wan-us-leaderboard/

2 thoughts on “VSG: 2018 U.S. Carrier Managed SD-WAN LEADERBOARD”

  1. Readers should not that there are no standards for SD-WAN and functionality differs markedly amongst SD-WAN providers which are software companies.

    MEF has a definition of SD-WAN service, but not all SD-WAN providers adhere to it.

    MEF 3.0 SD-WAN service definition:

    https://www.mef.net/mef-3-0-sd-wan

  2. SD-WAN adoption is surging, Cisco exec says:

    Software-defined (SD)-WAN technology is enjoying a worldwide surge in adoption, Cisco’s James Brown asserted. A company survey of about 500 cybersecurity professionals found that 76% of larger organizations are beginning to use SD-WAN or have already implemented the networking technology.

    “We are seeing a very strong move towards the adoption of SD-WAN technology, so much so that we feel in the very near future networking decisions and security decisions will not be two separate conversations any longer,” said James Brown of Cisco EMEAR.

    He said there is a need for the traditional security model to change for more software-as-a-service (SaaS) adoption and cloud adoption to really take flight.

    “On the networking side, we have seen a movement away from the historically centralised approach to a more decentralised approach. On the branch side, one of the most interesting shifts is a movement towards direct Internet access (DIA) and what we have seen growing at an exponential rate at Cisco is the adoption of SD-WAN capabilities,” he added.

    https://www.itweb.co.za/content/mYZRXM9P3jb7OgA8

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