Customers are factoring cost into their WAN decisions more than ever, according to a new study.

Aryaka Networks released its sixth State of the WAN survey, which revealed interesting results about how enterprise customers are navigating hybrid work and a multicloud world. For example, 64% of IT leaders are deploying secure access service edge (SASE) or plan to deploy it in 2022. SASE brings together advanced security and networking features into a single, cloud-based platform.

The survey queried 1,600 IT decision makers across the globe.

Aryaka’s Shashi Kiran

Aryaka chief marketing officer Shashi Kiran told Channel Futures that the majority of customers are buying SASE through channel partners. Moreover, a “significant portion” wants to consume SASE in a managed or co-managed model.

We listed eight interesting excerpts from the WAN study in the slideshow above.