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Unlocking the Potential – Understanding Managed SD-WAN Adoption

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IT Leaders Are Rethinking Their SD-WAN Strategies

Get the latest insights on how enterprises are evaluating providers, navigating challenges and redefining what good looks like in a provider.

Most SD-WAN providers sound the same on paper.

SLAs, global reach, integrated security—they all check the same boxes. But the reality for IT leaders managing complex networks is more nuanced. What actually matters during rollout? Where do providers fall short after the contract is signed? And what are your peers doing to avoid those pitfalls?

To answer those questions, GTT partnered with Hanover Research to survey 220+ enterprise decision-makers who’ve been there. This white paper shares what they revealed about performance expectations, provider selection, deployment regrets, and the features they’re prioritizing next.

Inside the Report

  • Why 77% of enterprises rely on managed providers—and what they expect in return
  • The top five factors IT leaders use to evaluate SD-WAN partners
  • Where deployments go wrong: from integration risks to internal support gaps
  • What’s driving the shift toward MSPs offering integrated network and security services
  • How cloud-based security, global reach and infrastructure ownership influence buying decisions

These are the real-world signals behind today’s SD-WAN decisions—straight from the leaders responsible for making them. If you’re navigating your own provider choice, this research gives you a clear look at what’s shifting in the enterprise playbook.

For IT and Infrastructure Leaders Under Pressure to Deliver

The SD-WAN market is maturing, but expectations are growing faster. Stakeholders want more than connectivity: they want visibility, consistent policy enforcement, and uptime—without increasing operational burden.

This white paper captures what forward-leaning enterprises are prioritizing now and what they’re leaving behind. Whether you’re managing your first SD-WAN rollout or reassessing your current provider, this research will help you benchmark your decisions against what’s working across the industry.

Why GTT Sponsored This Research

GTT Secure Connect delivers Managed SD-WAN integrated with SSE tools for advanced security, global reach and direct control to optimize performance. As a global Tier 1 IP backbone provider, GTT supports customers across 100+ countries with service integration, managed orchestration and a flexible approach to network design.

The challenges in this report reaffirm what we hear from our customers every day and it’s what our service model is built to solve.

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