SD-WAN, UCaaS Lead the Way in Latest Avant Partner, IT Studies

Written by James Anderson
April 9, 2019

Reports of MPLS' death may be greatly exaggerated.

…that are familiar with MPLS plan to increase its infrastructure in 2019. E-commerce and financial services indicated the biggest interest in expanding MPLS at 52% and 51%, respectively. But only 6% of health care IT professionals felt the same.

“While most technology leaders are planning to use SD-WAN in their corporate networks by the end of 2019, the use of MPLS is far from over, with the vast majority of current MPLS users planning to increase their MPLS infrastructure this year,” the report authors wrote.

Meantime, public internet broadband connections supported 63% of SD-WAN networks last year.

The second survey, the annual Cloud Channel survey, found that partners are diversifying their portfolios. The average service offering will expand from four to six in 2020, according to the study.

It found that UCaaS (67%), SD-WAN (61%), security as a service (45%) and data networks (39%) are the most common services it anticipates channel partners will sell over the next two years. Data networks accounted for the most sales transactions over the last year, matching a similar trend from last year’s study.