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Future of the Enterprise WAN: Too Complex to Ignore? Global Industry ReportMarch 2018

The Future of SD-WAN. Today.

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Contents

About the Survey ��������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� 3

Executive Summary ����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� 3

Simplification: The SD-WAN Story of 2018 ����������������������������������������������������������������������������������� 4

Network Simplification Reduce Costs While Improving Network Agility �������������������������������������� 9

Detailed Survey Results ��������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� 10

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Executive SummaryIn this year’s networking survey, we wanted to delve into what factors drive, support, or inhibit WAN transformation projects. Essential to that goal was understanding the role simplification plays in enterprise networks.

Many IT leaders engaged by Cato point to the rising complexity of their networks. It’s not just that IT managers are expected to reduce costs by migrating from costly MPLS services to inexpensive and unsecure Internet connectivity. Alone that would be challenging, often necessitating a rethinking of network security architectures. But simultaneously, IT professionals are being tasked with expanding the scope of the WAN to include cloud datacenters, cloud applications, and mobile users. Existing management and connectivity tools are often discrete, leading to redundancies, knowledge gaps, and process inefficiencies all of which undermine IT’s goal of being more efficient and agile.

To those ends, we explored how cloud, mobility, and security impact MPLS buyers transitioning to the new stage of SD-WAN, SD-WAN 3.0. With SD-WAN 1.0, solutions provided basic link bonding for aggregating and improving last-mile availability and obtaining more bandwidth. SD-WAN 2.0 introduced application-aware, policy-based routing for improved application performance. But both versions of SD-WAN were focussed on networking, connecting offices across the Internet or MPLS.

SD-WAN 3.0 goes a step further, converging advanced security with SD-WAN and expanding SD-WAN's scope to include all applications for the entire enterprise. Global, low-cost backbones allow enterprises to migrate entirely off of MPLS. Native cloud connectivity simplifies the integration of cloud datacenters and cloud applications. SD-WAN tunnel overlays extend to endpoints, bringing mobile devices — not just locations — into the WAN. More broadly, the shift from branch-focused SD-WAN point solutions to a holistic SD-WAN architecture enables faster, simpler WAN design and delivery.

About the SurveyA total of 1606 respondents took “Future of the Enterprise WAN: Too Complex to Ignore?” survey between January 8, 2018 and January 22, 2018. This report focussed on those organizations with MPLS as their backbone, a total of 712 respondents.

The respondents represent a cross section of the IT market. Nearly a third (28%) of the respondents were from organizations with less than 11 locations q11, 57% indicate their organization had 2-4 physical datacenters. Most companies were headquartered in the US (68%) or Europe (22%) q7. Respondents came from across the industry with "telecommunications" (18%), "computers & electronics" (18%), and "manufacturing" (12%) being the most popular sectors q41.

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The complexity of today’s network, and the push for a simpler one, expresses itself in many ways. At times, IT professionals explicitly point to “complexity” as a challenge. In other instances, complexity is implicit, such as when they express interest in “network automation” or point to concerns around selecting, integrating, and managing multiple tools and platforms.

WAN Simplification: Critical for 2018 Specific findings from our research pointing to the importance of simplification include:

Simplification The SD-WAN Story of 2018

If SD-WAN is to develop fully in 2018 and allow enterprise to truly transform their networks, the complete secure networking experience, not just connectivity, must become simpler, more seamless. It’s no longer sufficient that SD-WAN only simplifies transport selection between offices. SD-WAN solutions must simplify the complete life cycle for all network elements, converging deployment, maintenance, and management end-to-end into one seamless experience. This includes physical and cloud resources for office and mobile users. With one network infrastructure, IT organizations can and do realize tremendous gains in efficiencies and cost saving, enabling them to reallocate resources to more critical projects. The majority (81%) of those respondents actively planning an SD-WAN deployment in the next 12 months identify “protecting locations and the site-to-site connections from malware and other threats” as a “Critical” or “Very Important” priority in their SD-WAN decision making.

Most Popular Use Case for 2018

cited as the most popular (50% of respondents) use case for 2018 Q3

Primary Networking Challenges for 2018

Primary Security Challenges for 2018

Simplicity is still a challenge for SD-WAN solutions

ranked "equipment maintenance and updates" as the number two challenge Q4

Enforcing corporate security policy on mobile users Q5

see SD-WAN appliances as “too complex” Q29

ranked "managing the network" as the number four challenge Q4

Cost of buying and maintaining security appliances and software

see SD-WAN services as “too complex” Q30

Simplify network or security

39%

34% 32%

35%

39% 25%

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SD-WAN services predominate but must embrace cloud attributes

Cloud datacenters and applications disrupt today’s WAN

Given the attention placed on simplification, increased adoption of SD-WAN services should come as no surprise. After all, a primary selling point of infrastructure services has always been that the provider assumes the complexity of deploying, managing, and maintaining the infrastructure.

Last year, 30% of respondents identified their SD-WAN supplier as a “service provider” or “carrier”. This year that number has grown to nearly half of respondents (49%) Q27.

But carrier-managed SD-WAN services remain fundamentally limited. Managed services are built on integrating and repackaging third-party networking and security appliances. As such, co-management is either impossible, limited to one domain, or still requires learning and managing two environments. What's more the hardware costs, required integration effort, and ongoing maintenance — all combine to elevate the price of the service and adversely impact speed and agility.

In short, carrier-managed SD-WAN services fail to capitalize on the unique qualities of the cloud — elasticity, scalability, multi tenancy, and more. By taking advantage of these attributes, an SD-WAN service built for the cloud — SD-WAN as a service (SDWaaS) — can provide an end-to-end service far more affordably than one based on appliances duct taped with a managed service layer.

In large part, the push for simplification stems from our networks expanding to include the cloud. More than half (65% of respondents) indicated their organizations had at least one cloud datacenter with nearly half (45%) respondents indicating two or more datacenters Q35. As for cloud applications, Microsoft Office 365 was the most popular (75% of respondents) followed by Salesforce.com (30% of respondents).

With cloud datacenters and cloud applications, the traditional MPLS approach of backhauling traffic to a central Internet access point is no longer effective. It adds too much latency to cloud sessions and consumes expensive MPLS bandwidth. Organizations need to rethink their network architectures to accommodate the cloud.

Respondents identified theirSD-WAN supplier as a

“service provider” or “carrier”

2017

30%

2018

49%

of organizations haveat least one clouddatacenter Q35

65%

Cloud datacenter-WAN integration was the third most popular primary use case for

the next 12 months Q3

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SD-WAN should be a natural onramp to the cloud. Overall, improving cloud or Internet performance was ranked by 78% as a critical or very important SD-WAN priority. Q19 But traditional SD-WAN solutions are two-sided architectures, requiring an SD-WAN appliance on either end of the connection. Placing such appliances within cloud datacenters is either very complicated, expensive or, in the case of cloud applications, often impossible. An alternative approach is needed, one that brings traffic right to the cloud without any special setup.

Incidentally, the dominance of Amazon and Google when it comes to everything Internet makes it easy to forget about a “small startup” in Redmond called Microsoft. If our numbers indicate anything, though, enterprises certainly haven’t forgotten their computing roots. Microsoft showed up repeatedly in our survey when investigating cloud services. It was the most popular provider of cloud datacenter services among enterprises (70% of respondents) followed by Amazon AWS (53%). The “big two” aren’t the only options for cloud datacenter services. More than 10% of respondents indicated adoption of Google Cloud and 1% indicated use of Alibaba Cloud Compute Services Q36.

ranked improving cloud or Internetperformance as a critical or

very important SD-WAN priority

78%critical

Most popular provider of cloud datacenter services

among enterprises

70% 53%

Firewalls and mobile device security converge in the cloud

SD-WAN isn’t the only networking technology going the way of services. With inadequacies of appliances and the shift to cloud datacenters and applications, more enterprises will secure their branches, cloud datacenters, and mobile users through firewall as a service (FWaaS) and cloud access security brokers (CASBs) in 2018.

Securing cloud datacenters has introduced a range of challenges for enterprises. Built-in cloud firewalls require a separate management interface and offer only basic security features. Virtual firewalls placed in cloud datacenters are expensive, and complex to maintain and configure. Lastly, backhauling all cloud traffic through a single datacenter firewall chokepoint is adding too much latency for out-of-the-way fixed and mobile users.

More enterprises will secure their branches, cloud datacenters, and mobile users through firewall as a service (FWaaS) and cloud access security brokers (CASBs) in 2018

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As such, current best practices call for enterprises to build regional hubs and connect them with high-speed, dedicated connections to cloud datacenter services. Dedicated connection services — AWS Direct Connect, Microsoft ExpressRoute, and Google Cloud Dedicated Interconnect — were deployed by the organizations of 31% of respondents with the number expected to grow to about half of respondents (47%) within 12 months Q37.

But building out regional hubs is expensive and often unfeasible for many organizations. Firewall as a service (FWaaS) offers a way forward. Instead of the enterprises building a regional hub, the FWaaS provider builds regional point-of-presence (PoP) interconnected by a private backbone. Optimized routing to the cloud provider’s premium transport peering point allows FWaaS to significantly improve network performance. FWaaS showed the greatest potential of growth of any cloud security solution with 60% expecting to adopt the technology in 12 months Q38.

At the same time, cloud application adoption causes IT to lose visibility into and control over user traffic, particularly mobile users. Frustrated by the poor performance of secure mobile access solutions, mobile users often end up accessing cloud applications directly, bypassing organizational management and security controls. Enforcing corporate security policies on mobile users was challenging for many respondents (34%) Q5. Overall, most respondents (78%) indicated some problem when accessing cloud applications with security being the most frequently cited issue (40%) Q33.

Increasingly, organizations will address those issues by going to the cloud. Of the various approaches for securing access to cloud applications, CASB shows the greatest promise growing from 21% of respondents today to 79% within the next 12 months Q34.

of respondents indicatedproblems when accessingcloud applications. Securityis the most frequently citedissue.

78%

of respondents define enforcing corporate securitypolicies on mobile userschallenging Q5

34%

Dedicated connectionservices deployment

Current Within 12 months

31%

47%Q37

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Last year we predicted that MPLS services will persist despite SD-WAN adoption. The inherent unpredictability of the Internet, particularly for global connectivity, makes it a poor replacement for MPLS services. And once again, indications point to MPLS' staying power. More than half (57%) of respondents with SD-WAN implementations expect MPLS investments to increase or remain the same Q15.

The persistence of MPLS stems from the underlying problem of relying on the public Internet as an enterprise backbone. Whereas Internet connectivity has improved and is often sufficient for regional connectivity, the Internet continues to be too erratic, too unpredictable for the consistent, end-to-end connectivity required by loss- or latency- sensitive applications, such as voice.

As such, enterprises often retain an SLA-backed backbone along with the deployment of SD-WANs. MPLS, of course, is the SLA-backed backbone that’s known to enterprises, but MPLS is hardly the only choice. In fact, nearly a third (32%) of respondent ranked finding “an affordable and suitable MPLS alternative” a primary use case for 2018 Q3.

MPLS persists as companies search for affordable alternative

SD-WAN: Cost savings and more

Cost reductions have been a common refrain for why companies adopt SD-WAN. And while excessive WAN-related costs is a primary motivation for SD-WAN, it’s not the biggest driver. Most respondents point to a general WAN modernization effort (38%) Q20 as the reason for moving to SD-WAN.

Yes, MPLS is out of step with the cost structures of today’s companies, but it’s limitations are far more than just costs. Deployment times are far too long. Management is handled solely by providers at a time when respondents prefer co-managing their infrastructure Q25. In short, MPLS is a WAN for a past era.

Respondents echoed this broader view of SD-WAN’s benefits in their objectives for SD-WAN. Increased agility Q23 was the most widely achieved priority by those who implemented SD-WAN, pointing to SD-WAN’s ability to address the deployment and provisioning challenges of MPLS. SD-WAN did lead to reduced MPLS costs (42%), but since finding an affordable MPLS alternative continues to be a primary objective for many respondents, organizations should not expect to replace MPLS with an Internet-only backbone.

SD-WANIncreased

agility

cited by

51%to address the deployment and

provisioning challenges of MPLS

57% of respondents withSD-WAN implementations expectMPLS investments to increase or

remain the same

SD-WAN impact on MPLSinvestments

43%Decreased

35%Increased

22%No impact

MPLSinvestments

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Network Simplification: Reduce Costs While Improving Network Agility

Reducing costs and improving agility have seemed mutually exclusive for far too long. And while SD-WAN 2.0 certainly helped bridge that gap, IT managers are still left with purchasing, supporting, and integrating multiple backbones, and networking and security products. Separate management and connectivity tools for fixed and mobile users are still needed, as are complex configurations to connect cloud resources to the SD-WAN. All of which fragments data, hindering efficient visibility and control over the enterprise network.

SD-WAN 3.0 offers a better approach, converging security and networking into a seamless cloud service. One service for mobile and fixed users. The same service connecting private datacenters, cloud datacenters, and cloud applications. With a simpler network, SD-WAN 3.0 solutions like Cato Cloud make network simplification, cost reduction, and better security possible.

One SecurityA full suite of cloud-based network security services built directly into the network and protecting all traffic.

HQ Mobile userCloud DatacenterBranch

Cato Cloud

One NetworkGlobal SLA-backed backbone that carries Internet and WAN traffic, and can augment or replace MPLS.

One PolicyCato enforces a unified policy for all traffic and across all users, locations, and applications.

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Detailed Survey Results

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Q1 Q2

Q3

Over the next 12-24 months, what do you anticipate will happen to your networking budget?

Over the next 12-24 months, what do you anticipate will happen to your security budget?

Which of the following use cases will be a primary focus for your company over the next 12 months? (select no more than three)

36%Stay the same

48%Increase

11%Decrease

5%Uncertain

NetworkBudget

20%Stay the same 73%

Increase

4%Decrease

3%Uncertain

SecurityBudget

Simplify network or security architectures

50%

Improve visibility into and control over mobile access to cloud applications, such

as Office 365

31%

Provide secure, Internet access from any location

46%

Decrease the time users wait to access remote

servers or transfer files

16%

Integrate cloud datacenter(s) into the WAN

36%

Eliminate appliances from branch offices

14%

Replace MPLS with a more affordable alternative with

suitable performance

32%

Other

7%

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Q4

Identify the primary networking challenges facing your IT organization. (no more than three)

Q5

Identify the primary security challenges facing your IT organization. (no more than three)

42% Bandwidth costs

39% Equipment maintenance and updates

38% Performance between locations

35% Managing the network

25% Performance to the cloud

23% Providing and managing secure mobile/remote access

21% Last-mile availability

19% Finding and retaining skilled networking personnel

17% Time to deploy new locations

59% Defending against emerging threats like ransomware

40% Complying with government and industry regulations

39% Cost of buying and managing security appliances and software

34% Enforcing corporate security policy on mobile users

32% Integrating and securing cloud and physical datacenters

24% Hiring and retaining skilled staff

19% Providing secure direct internet access for branch locations

Q7 Q8

Where is your company headquartered?

Where does your company have remote sites? (Select all that apply)68% North America

22% Europe

6% Asia

1% Australia

1% South America

1% Middle East

1% Africa

81% North America

51% Europe

45% Asia

29% South America

25% Australia

24% Middle East

16% Africa

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Q9

How many full-time employees are in your company?

30%100-999employees

20%10,000+employees

4%1-99employees

27%2,500-10,000employees

20%1,000-2,499employees

39%100-999employees

17%2,500-10,000employees

10%10,000+employees

18%1,000-2,499employees

16%1-99employees

Q10

How many mobile users access your network?

Q11 Q12

How many locations are in your network?

How many physical datacenters are in your organization?

28% 1-10

22% 11-25

13% 251+

13% 26-50

13% 51-100

11% 101-250

57% 2-4

26% 5+

14% 1

3% 0

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Q14

How familiar would you say you are with SD-WAN as a technology?

28%Unfamiliar

56%Somewhat familiar

16%Very familiar

Q16

Q15

Q17

Do you have or are you planning to deploy SD-WAN?

To what degree has SD-WAN impacted or do you anticipate will impact your investment in the following technologies?

When considering an SD-WAN, which of the following factors would you consider to be the biggest barriers to investment?

14%SD-WAN in 12 months

13%Have SD-WAN

21%No plans

30%Considering SD-WAN

22%I don’t know

49% Maturity of existing SD-WAN offerings

47% Cost of new equipment/services

41% Internet performance characteristics (latency, packet loss etc.)

29% Security gaps created in the network

21% Additional complexity

2% Other

Internetservices

MPLSservices

Network securityappliances

Routers WAN optimizationappliances

Decreased No impact Increased

75%

11%

54%

35%

13%

59%

28%

5%

58%

37%

26%

47%

27%

6%

59%

28%

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Q18

You're looking for an SD-WAN and must choose between functionality and ease of use. Please move the slider to best reflect your preference.

50�46%Easy to use GUI with SD-WANfeatures to meet all basicnetwork requirements

Cisco IOS-like CLI with the SD-WANfeatures to meet all basic and advanced

networking requierments

Q19

Please rank the importance of the following SD-WAN priorities in your decision making process.

55%

34%

47%

40%

30%

55%

30%

50%

29%

49%

Secure delivery of data across the WAN/Internet

Protecting locations and the site-to-site connection from

malware and other threats

Improved application performance

Reduced operational costs

Improved cloud or internet performance

Predictable delivery of high-quality voice

Flexibility to rapidly increase bandwidth

Improved last-mile availability

Reduced deployment and reconfiguration

times

Increased choice of last-mile services

(MPLS, xDSL, 3G/4G etc.)

35%

42%

20%

56%

23%

50%

24%

49%

20%

48%

Critical Very important Somewhat important Not important

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Q20 Q21

What was the primary motivation for considering SD-WAN?

Has your SD-WAN deployment lived up to expectations?

28%Excessive WAN-related costs

19%Excessive site deployment/reconfiguration times

15%To address an initiative from the business

38%General WAN modernization effort 15%

Yes

6%No

79%Too soon to tell

Q22 Q23

How long ago did your company complete the bulk of its SD-WAN deployment?

Which priorities did you achieve after your SD-WAN deployment?(check all that apply)

76% Still in process

9% 1 year or more

6% 6-12 months

6% 3-6 months

3% 3 months

51% Increased network flexibility and agility

42% Reduced cost of MPLS service

27% Other (please specify)

26% Improved Internet or cloud performance

26% Increased network security

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Q24 Q25

How has your SD-WAN failed to live up to expectations?(check all that apply)

Which of the following is your preferred SD-WAN management architecture?

33%Self-managed

18%Fully managed

49%Co-managed

Q26

Q27

How has SD-WAN most positively impacted your organization?(check all that apply)

How would you best describe your SD-WAN provider?

39% Increased network flexibility

36% Improved connectivity

30% Reduced costs

25% Reduced physical infrastructure

18% Improved security

13% Increased network security

32%Equipment vendor

36%Global service provider

19%ISP

12%Carrier

20% SD-WAN met our expectations

20% Did not significantly reduce costs

17% Did not reduce network complexity

16% Difficult to deploy

11% Did not improve performance/latency

10% Hard to maintain

9% Increased security risks

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Q28 Q29

How would you rate your overall experience with your SD-WAN supplier?

What are your biggest complaints with your SD-WAN vendor? (Select no more than three responses)

100 (Best)

0 (Worst)Vendor Provider

6655

32% Too complex

25% Application performance problems

18% Cloud datacenter deployment difficulties

14% Poor service and support

12% Lacks security

Q30 Q31

What are your biggest complaints with your SD-WAN provider?(Select no more than three responses)

What is the primary reason your organization has not yet or will not deploy an SD-WAN?

25% Too complex

20% Poor service and support

19% Unpredictable application

16% Cloud datacenters are difficult to deploy

13% Slow application performance

7% Lacks security43% Don’t know enough about it

28% No real need

13% Still under service provider contract

6% The products are too new or immature

6% The products' security has not been full vetted

4% The products are too expensive

2% Need a service with predictable loss/latency

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Q32

Which cloud applications does your company officially support?

75% 75%

Other None

30% 25% 12% 8%

Q33 Q34

What are three biggest problems with your company's current approach to cloud application access?

Which of the following approaches best describes how your company secures access to SaaS and the public cloud today and in the next 12 months?

30

40

33%

Visibility and control

33%

Performance

34%

Cost

40%

SecurityRemote access VPN services

22%

78%

Mobile VPN product

33%

67%

Direct

37%

63%

Cloud access security broker (CASB)

79%

21%

Today Within 12 Months

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Q35

Indicate the number of cloud datacenters in your organization.

10% 5+

20% 1

10% Don’t know

35%4-2

25%0

Q36

Q37

Indicate the cloud platforms on which your organization runs those cloud datacenters

Does your company currently pay for dedicated connection services (such as AWS Direct Connect, Microsoft ExpressRoute, Google Cloud Dedicated Interconnect)?

70% 75%

Other

53% 25% 12% 1%

38%No

15%Uncertain

31%Yes

16%Not currently, but planned for within the next 12 months

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Q38 Q39

What architecture does your organization use to secure its cloud datacenter(s)?

Which of the following best describes your users' experience accessing cloud-based datacenters?Premise-based firewall appliance only

16%

84%

Cloud firewall bundled with the service

29%

71%

Third-party virtual firewalls running in the cloud

46%

54%

Regional hubs with direct connection services

35%

65%

Firewall as a Service (FWaaS)

60%

40%

Today Within 12 Months

16% 9%

4%

75%

25%

70%

Excellent Acceptabale Problematic

MobileUser

FixedUser

Q40 Q41

Which category best describes your title or role?

Which industry best describes your organization?

37% Network Administrator/Analyst/Architect/Engineer/Manager

19% IT Director

17% IT Staff

4% Consultant (Technical)

11% Security Analyst/Architect/Engineer/Manager

8% CIO/VP IT

4% Other non-IT staff

18% Telecommunications

18% Computers & Electronics

12% Manufacturing

6% Business Services

5% Heathcare

4% Insurance

6% Retail

4% Finance

4% Construction

3% Chemicals

3% Utilities

2% Transportation

2% Education

2% Legal & Law Enforcement

2% Other

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