2023 State of Network Edge Survey

State of network edge survey

Graphiant commissioned the 2023 State of Network Edge survey to explore how enterprises are building and managing networks capable of meeting the needs of today’s scale and where they are headed as their networking needs become increasingly complex. The survey was completed by 200 senior, director, VP, and C-level IT professionals in large enterprises throughout North America. Respondents spend at least 50% of their time designing, provisioning, and managing the network edge.

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Introduction

The internet is generally said to have been born in 1989, and since then, there have been significant changes to how enterprises network every 11 years or so. Why? Because as enterprise networks grew, they required additional scale, speed, reliability, security, and privacy.

A Change in What Enterprises Need From Their Network

Since its inception, the core purpose of the enterprise network has been to provide connectivity between all enterprise resources. This means the data center, branch offices, factories, and employees. But the world has changed, and the enterprise must increasingly provide connectivity to non-enterprise resources, including cloud services, customers, and partners.

Building the Network Edge is Difficult

As one might expect, enterprises are doing the best at enterprise connectivity; that’s the use case
they’ve been solving the longest. Yet that’s not to say it is easy. Survey respondents rated enterprise
connectivity as their second most difficult use case, with the most difficult being connecting to
external entities, such as customers or partners.

How Enterprises Build the Network Edge Today

As we saw previously,  enterprises predict existing network technologies will start to fail within the next three years. But what are the technologies currently employed by these enterprises? They rate SD-WAN, MPLS, and Multicloud Connectivity solutions as their top three technologies, respectively.

Enterprise Acceptance of as-a-Service Solutions

The Network Edge is changing quickly, and as a result, how enterprises build their network edge is also changing. Many aspects of enterprise computing have already moved to “as-a-Service.” For example, nearly all enterprises have “adopted as their standard” Software-as-a-Service. 81% say the same of Storage as-a-Service (e.g., Box, Dropbox, etc.), and 61% say this of Compute as-a-Service.

How to Transition From Building to Consuming the Network

After surveying 200 responses from Network Architects and Network Admins, who spend at least 50% of their time designing, provisioning, and managing the Network Edge, the results show that moving to a new model where enterprises consume the network instead of building bespoke networks is groundbreaking and what is inevitably needed for the modern business.

How Do You Stack up?

Take the survey now to see how your organization compares to our survey results. 

B2B Connectivity

By offering on-demand, policy-driven connectivity, Graphiant’s B2B Service simplifies the process of establishing secure networks between multiple organizations, helping enterprises quickly onboard partners and adapt to changing business needs.

Time for a New Edge

Simplify how you provision, manage, and scale your network with predictable performance, better security, and simple agility.

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Your network is more complex than ever. Remote workers, business partners, multiple clouds, edge networks – it’s
a brave new world! You need connectivity that is fast and secure. But in today’s service economy, you also need
internet-level agility. You have to provision connectivity in minutes, not days or weeks.

Performance

Combine MPLS performance with internet-class “as-a-Service” agility to deliver enterprise-grade networks with agility.

Agility

True “as-a-Service” connectivity – allows you to provision in minutes (not months).

Affordable

Reduce costs by up to two-thirds compared to SD-WAN and MPLS.

Experience What Comes Next In Networking.

Connectivity solutions like MPLS and SD-WAN can’t keep up with today’s dynamic, distributed hybrid world. The Graphiant Network Edge delivers the next-gen performance and agility you need to thrive.

Find Out About Graphiant In Our Explainer Video.

Graphiant’s next-gen private Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) offers the performance and security today’s enterprise needs in an affordable, agile solution.

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