WAN report published

WAN report published

IT research and analysis provider, Information Week, has published the results of a recent survey into the use of and demand for Wide Area Networks (WAN).

The 2012 Next Generation WAN Survey results have been detailed in a wider report by Information Week, which also gives advice and guidance to WAN users on how best to optimise their budgets and their bandwidth to get the best business results.

The result of the survey, which questioned in excess of 300 business technology professionals, 39 per cent of which said they expected demand for wide area network bandwidth to grow either significantly or somewhat over the next one to two year.

Of those who said that they would like to upgrade their wide area network connectivity but cannot do so, some 44 per cent attributed this to budget constraints. Good news came from 29 per cent of respondents who said that their networks were less vulnerable to security breaches and attacks that they were a year ago.

The report outlined the fact that only 31 per cent of those who responded said they had changed or reviewed their network strategies in response to their adoption of public cloud technology. However, it pointed out that the emergence of hybrid and private cloud services is expected to have a greater impact on companies’ decisions over whether to review WAN (i.e. whether to keep a traditional design or to adopt business-class internet links).

Lorna Garey, the content director of InformationWeek Reports, said, "Ethernet is moving to take over WANs, the same way it did the data centre.”

hSo provides managed networks designed for business. To get an instant cost for a leased line at your location, visit our online leased line price checker.