Whitepaper, June 2021

Exclusive research on how the pandemic is remodelling SD-WAN adoption


At a time of dramatic change, independent research by CCS Insight examines the impact of Coronavirus on the demand and drivers for SD-WAN.

This whitepaper by CCS Insights analyses recent research into the SD-WAN market, based on interviews with 800 IT decision makers from global organisations.


The research looks at how the pandemic has dramatically accelerated the pace of digital transformation across all businesses and highlights some of the challenges that companies are facing. In particular, a shortage of the right skills is driving the need to outsource the deployment and management of SD-WAN.

Organizations want to embrace SD-WAN technology and they are accelerating that transformation.

Surprisingly, it also shows a continued focus on the network, with the importance of reliability and performance being crucial as organisations move to the latest technology.

Digital transformation is driving many new technologies, but they all rely on the underlying networkThe paper includes recommendations on what organisations should do when looking to move to SD-WAN.