WAN Bandwidth Demand Creates the Need for Channel Expertise
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Top Forces Affecting WAN Over Next 12 Months
42% of organizations say investments in WANs are being driven by the need for better application performance while 32.4% cite the need to support real-time applications. -
Application Traffic Priorities
Only 22.7% report that they make an effort to dynamically prioritize application traffic on the WAN. But an additional 15% are thinking about it. -
Factors Driving WAN Performance Awareness
44.4% report that pressure to improve WAN performance comes from the top. But 43.5% say it's a matter of internal pride. -
Impact on Application Performance
14% report they have WAN issues once or twice a week; another 29.5% report having issues once or twice a quarter. -
WAN Awareness of Senior Business Managers
65.7% report senior managers will either sometimes or mostly support additional funding for WAN. -
Percentage of WAN Traffic Running Over MPLS
Despite MPLS costs, 48% report that 40 percent or more of their WAN traffic is generated by leased lines. -
WAN Traffic Running Over Internet
40.9% report that Internet traffic generates more than 40 percent of their WAN traffic. -
Expected Change in WAN Traffic by Service
36.3% expect MPLS traffic to increase while 53% expect Internet traffic to increase. -
Most Important MPLS Concerns
The expense of leased lines is a top MPLS concern for 43%; uptime is cited by 23.7%. -
Most Important Internet Concerns
Uptime is cited by 28% while security is a close second at 26.6%. -
Biggest Drivers of Increased MPLS Traffic
Enterprise apps were cited as the biggest driver of MPLS traffic by 21.7%. -
Biggest Drivers of Increased Internet Traffic
Public cloud was cited by 35.7% while mobile computing usage accounted for 22.7%. -
WAN Budgets
44.3% expect WAN budgets to increase in the coming year; 31.4% expect them to remain static.
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Why Metrics Matter to the Channel The rise of cloud computing and increased use of mobile computing devices have placed more pressure on the wide-area network than ever. A global survey of 200 IT professionals, conducted by Ashton, Metzler & Associates on behalf of WAN optimization software provider Talari Networks, finds that more than 40 percent plan to increase the size of their WAN budgets in 2014. A huge percentage of the increase in traffic is naturally moving across the Internet, but the use of enterprise applications is also driving up traffic across leased Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) lines. Surprisingly, 43.5 percent report they are coping with significant WAN issues at least once a quarter, and 65.7 percent feel they can get the support of senior managers to allocate funds to address those challenges. For channel companies, the WAN clearly represents an opportunity to deliver products and services that can improve application performance. This will be increasingly important as enterprise IT continues to be more distributed with each passing day, thanks to growth in cloud and mobile computing. Channel Insider examines key takeaways from the study.
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