“To better understand how well this promise of SD-WAN is playing out with buyers today, Altman Vilandrie & Company conducted a nationwide survey of over 300 IT decisionmakers and supplemented it with in-depth interviews with a range of representative market experts. We found that, despite the technology’s promise of being revolutionary and already widespread adoption, buying behavior thus far has mostly led to more evolutionary SD-WAN implementations.“
Note: Based on reader feedback, we have updated this whitepaper, originally released last month, to better establish the definition of SD-WAN – a new technology that is evolving rapidly. For more background on these changes – and the dynamic nature of SD-WAN deployment – please see this related article from June 29, 2020.