SD-WAN Comparison Matrix: 61 Vendors and Service Providers

In recent years businesses are increasingly transitioning from traditional WAN and MPLS network architectures to Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN) solutions. This trend is primarily due to SD-WAN’s ability to offer a significant improvement to network performance, scalability and security features, whilst also reducing operational overheads, with businesses of all scales often seeing significant Returns On Investment (ROI).

There are many key factors and technical considerations that you should consider when choosing an SD-WAN solution, with the weight that each factor bears being determined by your individual business operations, goals and network criteria. It’s important to select an SD-WAN solution that can integrate with your pre-existing legacy, proprietary and security systems. To assist with this process, in this article we’ve broken down each vendor’s solutions and the depth of their capabilities.

For those that don’t have the internal expertise or dedicated resources to manage their network, one of the benefits of Telco providers that offer managed SD-WAN solutions is that the management responsibility is handed over to external experts. Integrating a new SD-WAN solution with existing infrastructure and IT systems can be complex and requires careful planning, therefore, through a managed model, you can rest assured that your business will be guided through the process.

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Table of Contents

SD-WAN Vendors

Fortinet

Market Leader North America Latin America Europe Middle East & Africa Asia-Pacific Security

Fortinet claims to be the first vendor to integrate security and network functionality into a single system. This is achieved through their Secure SD-WAN solution – fully integrated into the FortiGate platform.

Now deployed by over 31,000 customers globally, prior to their SD-WAN solution, Fortinet were primarily a cybersecurity company. Originally producing FortiGate as a physical firewall solution, FortiGate featured alongside early Fortinet solutions, such as endpoint security and intrusion detection systems. In 2016, Fortinet moved onto their Security Fabric architecture (to enable communication between multiple network security products) which was their previous most network-focused offering.

By integrating their SD-WAN solution into the FortiGate security platform, Fortinet SD-WAN has become the forefront of their broader portfolio, offering businesses with all-round network security capabilities and an ideal choice for enterprises with sensitive data, secure connectivity or requirements for in-depth security monitoring. This has led to Fortinet’s secure SD-WAN being one of the most-used solutions by the Telco SD-WAN providers.

Cisco

Market Leader North America Latin America Europe Middle East & Africa Asia-Pacific Security

Cisco entered the market through Meraki SD-WAN, which it acquired in 2012. Prior to this, Cisco’s primary offering was Cisco IWAN, which was an on-premises SD-WAN device based on ISR branch routing.

Finally, in 2017, Cisco expanded its offerings through the acquisition of Viptela, creating a portfolio that could cater to all business requirements through the easier-to-use Meraki and more-in depth Viptela – which is reflected by the large volumes of SD-WAN providers offering both Cisco Catalyst sd wan and Cisco Meraki, showcasing that they are clearly one of the best sd wan vendors.

Viptela was acquired by Cisco due to the Viptela SD-WAN solution being specifically designed with a separation of data, control and management planes, which complimented Cisco’s Digital Network Architecture (DNA). Today, Cisco’s main SD-WAN (now rebranded from Cisco Viptela to Cisco Catalyst) is recognised as one of the leading SD-WAN solutions in the market, whilst Meraki SD-WAN is widely used for more simplified use cases.

Palo Alto Networks

Leader North America Latin America Middle East & Africa Security

Palo Alto Networks have long been known for their cybersecurity capabilities, predominantly through their Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW) technology. Through PAN-OS, Palo Alto provided Layer 7 visibility and control over network traffic utilising their firewall appliances – making them well-placed to move into the SD-WAN market for more security-focused use cases.

Palo Alto Networks produced their SD-WAN solution in 2020, self-dubbing it the “Industry’s First Next-Generation SD-WAN Solution” and formed part of Palo Alto Networks’ CloudGenix SD-WAN offering.

In 2021, Palo Alto launched Prisma Access, a Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) solution to implement both security and networking capabilities, which includes Application-Aware Routing (AAR) and Zero Touch Provisioning into a single solution. This has proved to be successful for Palo Alto, who are currently one of only three vendors recognised as a Leader across all three SASE-related Magic Quadrant reports:

• Security Service Edge (SSE),

• Single-Vendor SASE,

• SD-WAN

Versa Networks

Leader North America Latin America Europe Middle East & Africa Asia-Pacific Multi-tenancy Multi-deployment

Headquartered in California, Versa Networks were founded in 2012 and were one of the startups that helped form the SD-WAN market. Initially started by two brothers, Kumar Mehta who had previously served as VP Engineering at Juniper Networks (2004-2012) and Apurva Mehta, CTO and Chief Architect at Juniper Networks’ Mobility Business Unit, Versa came from a background of networking expertise.

By October 2019, Versa Networks had over 1,000 total customers and sold more than 200,000 software licenses.

Versa’s operating system (VOS) not only offers SD-WAN but has been extended to form a SASE solution, making Versa Networks currently one of only three vendors recognised as a Leader across all three SASE-related Magic Quadrant reports: 

• Security Service Edge (SSE),

• Single-Vendor SASE,

• SD-WAN

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)

Leader North America Latin America Europe Middle East & Africa Asia-Pacific SMBs

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) have formed the HPE Aruba EdgeConnect SD-WAN solution from their prior networking expertise and multiple acquisitions of other SD-WAN vendors.

HPE have been long term experts in Software Defined Networking (SDN) solutions. Before offering SD-WAN, HPE offered SDN products with OpenFlow-enabled switches and HP Cloud Managed Network Wireless LAN for small and mid-sized businesses. These lay the foundations for a software-based networking approach, which was later realised in March 2015 when they acquired Aruba Networks.

Improving upon this, in 2020 HPE acquired Silver Peak Systems, who were well-known for their EdgeConnect SD-WAN solution, enabling HPE to integrate EdgeConnect into their Aruba Edge Service platform and now their SD-WAN offers WAN edge infrastructure, as well as advanced routing capabilities.

HPE Aruba’s SD-WAN solution now consists of three main components:

• EdgeConnect: Available as physical or virtual appliances, supporting hybrid WAN architecture

• Aruba Orchestrator: Central administration console for network management

• Aruba Boost: Optional WAN optimisation performance pack

Huawei

Challenger Latin America Europe Middle East & Africa Asia-Pacific Large Enterprises

A Chinese vendor, since 2012 Huawei have become the largest telecommunications equipment manufacturer globally, typically known for technology services such as their breakthrough C&C08 telephone switch, which was the most powerful switch in China upon released in 1993.

Huawei previously offered an SDN-based agile controller, launched in 2017 that would later become their SD-WAN solution. In 2018, Huawei progressed via the launch of their SD-WAN cloud services and as of more recent, Huawei have been recognised by Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice for SD-WAN for four consecutive times.

Huawei’s cloud services include cloud gateways such as Azure, Alibaba Cloud, Huawei Cloud, AWS (Amazon Web Services), the Google Cloud Platform and e-Cloud, which can be essential for businesses utilising a large range of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications or WAN edge infrastructures.

To further create a secure SD-WAN offering, Huawei has integrated SASE capabilities into their SD-WAN through their Xinghe Intelligent SASE Solution, complying with MEF SASE model standards to reduce integration and management complexity for network administrators.

Juniper Networks

Visionary North America Latin America Europe Middle East & Africa Asia-Pacific AI Capabilities

Juniper Networks SD-WAN’s unique selling point is primarily in its vast amounts of Artificial Intelligence (AI) integrations. These include:

• Mist AI for insights and automated troubleshooting

• Marvis, an AI-driven virtual network assistant for deep insights into client and network behaviours

• Automated network security and analytics via AI

Whilst several other vendors have integrated AI for features such as analytics insights and reporting, in our opinion, Juniper Networks has by far the most AI integrations into its services, making it a top SD-WAN provider for AI integrations. One benefit of this use of AI is the reduced complexity for network administrators, who benefit from WAN optimization, advanced routing, Zero Touch Provisioning and secure SD-WAN, all whilst reducing network costs through lower operational workloads.

Following the October 2020 acquisition of 128 Technology, Juniper Networks has further strengthened their market position by adding session-aware networking capabilities to their AI-driven portfolio of features.

Ericsson (Cradlepoint)

Niche Player North America Latin America Europe Asia-Pacific Remote Workforces

Having acquired Cradlepoint in 2020, Ericsson’s SD-WAN solution has a heavy focus on the cellular wireless and 5G enterprise markets, which has followed into their SD-WAN design. By integrating Cradlepoint’s prior SD-WAN solution into Ericsson’s NetCloud Exchange architecture, the solution is ideal for distributed sites, vehicles, Internet of Things (IoT) and remote work environments. This is primarily due to the specialisations in 5G-optimisations for cellular-specific traffic, which can be essential for network resilience.

Having acquired Ericom, a cloud-based security company, improvements have been seen on Cradlepoint’s NetCloud platform, which now utilises Ericom’s zero trust and cloud-based security solutions to form the basis of the new Cradlepoint NetCloud Threat Defence cloud service to create secure SD-WAN edges. This was an essential step for Ericsson to better deliver edge computing architectures and enable the use of IoT.

Peplink

Niche Player North America Europe Asia-Pacific SMBs

Peplink SD-WAN primarily focuses on wireless and mobile SD-WAN solutions, which compliments their global coverage for their eSIM data plans. Typically targeting Small to medium enterprises (with 1-150 recommended users per deployment), Peplink SD-WAN is ideal for use cases such as IoT, public safety, transport and broadcasting. 

Prior to SD-WAN, Peplink was known for pioneering multi-WAN technology and link aggregation solutions. By already having made solutions (SpeedFusion VPN) for combining multiple WAN sources into one connection, Peplink have long term expertise in getting the most out of WAN connectivity and ensuring consistent uptimes, which has continued on through their SD-WAN solution.

These capabilities have helped Peplink garner more than 17,000 SD-WAN subscribers, with customers operating in a range of markets, such as construction, transport and retail.

Barracuda Networks

Niche Player North America Europe Asia-Pacific Microsoft Azure

Barracuda Networks offers two SD-WAN products:

• CloudGen Firewall (traditional offering)

• SecureEdge (newer SASE-focused solution)

SecureEdge replaces Barracuda’s previous alternative option, CloudGen WAN, which was a SASE solution tightly integrated with Microsoft Azure. Given this, both of the current solutions offer native Azure integrations, working directly with Azure service fabric to manage User Defined Routes and monitor internet protocol (IP) forwarding settings and deployment directly through the Azure Marketplace.

This makes Barracuda’s offerings well-suited for their target audience, which primarily focuses on smaller enterprise and SMB customers, who typically make use of Azure for other business operations, due to the benefits related to reduced costs and improved application performance.

Whilst this does make things easier for businesses using Azure, it should be noted that Barracuda’s solution do offer limited integration with third-party SSE vendors, should your business want to leverage external security resources.

Aryaka

Previous Visionary North America Latin America Europe Middle East & Africa Asia-Pacific Managed Services

Aryaka launched its SD-WAN service offering in September 2010, which was revamped with their SmartServices platform in 2019. This platform delivers SD-WAN as a service over a private network, rather than requiring customers to build their own solutions, which has become a key differentiator in the market when compared to their competitors.

Arguably Aryaka’s best feature is their global private network, which includes over 30 Service Points of Presence (PoPs) across six continents. This not only provides businesses with, in our opinion, the best connectivity within the China and Asia region, but these points are also strategically located near business hubs and major cloud service providers, including AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Oracle Cloud and Alibaba Cloud.

These capabilities have led Aryaka to establish itself as the largest pure-play SD-WAN market leader with an 18% revenue share, maintaining a 6% lead over the likes of Cisco.

Cato Networks

Leader North America Latin America Europe Middle East & Africa Asia-Pacific Managed Services

Whilst only moving up from a Challenger to a Leader within the Gartner SD-WAN magic quadrant in 2024, Cato Network’s SD-WAN solutions have frequently set trends for the entire market.

The company initially launched its SD-WAN service in 2017, however in 2018 introduced the first cloud-based threat hunting system across the SD-WAN market, with one of the key benefits being that it didn’t require dedicated data collection infrastructure. This leveraged zero-footprint data aggregation and machine learning algorithms for threat detection.

Following this, in 2020, Cato Networks were awarded the INTERNET TELEPHONY SD-WAN Product of the Year Award, recognising their achievement as the only SASE platform to converge SD-WAN and security into a global, cloud-native platform.

But these haven’t been the only milestones to note, with Cato also being recognised for creating the industry’s first identity-aware routing engine, as well as, in February 2025, becoming the first SASE platform to achieve PCI DSS v4.0 compliance.

Ecessa

Unranked North America Europe Asia-Pacific SMBs

Ecessa, who were acquired by OneNet Global in July 2023, differentiates itself from many of its competitors through its deployment guarantee and phased implementation approach, which has helped customers achieve faster deployment times compared to other solutions.

They offer multiple product tiers:

Ecessa Edge: Entry-level solution for small businesses, introducing basic load balancing and in-call failover

PowerLink: Mid-tier solution focusing on WAN link management with VPN and SIP functionality

WANworX: Enterprise-grade solution offering complete SD-WAN features including automatic failover, active/active bandwidth usage, QoS and support for bandwidths up to 20Gbps

Adaptiv Networks

Unranked North America Europe SMBs

Elfiq SD-WAN, now owned by Adaptiv Networks, is recognised as being one of the first pioneers in SD-WAN technology. Initially, Elfiq produced link balancing solutions, which made them well-suited to branch out into the SD-WAN market due to their prior expertise in network improvements.

Today, Elfiq SD-WAN showcases these network capabilities, supporting data centres and organisations that require high bandwidth capabilities, offering them with up to 20Gbps and edge deployments up to 1Gbps with support for 4G/5G links, broadband and MPLS circuits

However, Elfiq SD-WAN isn’t the only SD-WAN solution offered by Adaptiv Networks, who also offer Enterprise Connect – a solution designed for distributed enterprises, which has a heavy focus on user experience improvement across cloud services.

These two SD-WAN solutions therefore compliment Adaptiv Network’s wider portfolio, which includes:

• Business Connect: A cloud-based connectivity solution

• Cloud-managed SASE (Secure Access Service Edge) solutions

Extreme Networks

Unranked North America Latin America Europe Middle East & Africa Asia-Pacific Large Enterprises

Extreme Networks have a strong focus on machine learning and artificial intelligence, and their products reflect this. They believe in making ML/AI understandable, yet still offering all the capabilities to allow faster, smarter and more efficient harnessing of data. This is done in a transparent way allowing the customer to see, verify and trust the machine’s recommendations. In 2019 they acquired Aerohive Networks, who were an emerging cloud-managed networking company.

Extreme has grown to be the biggest competitor to Cisco’s Meraki and currently hold a 10% market share in both revenue and devices managed in the cloud-managed space.

From global enterprises to small town high schools, Extreme caters to all sizes of networks allowing customers to better understand their users and develop their organisation. With over 50,000 customers all possessing the same goal of customer-driven networking. ExtremeCloudIQ is their powerful SaaS cloud-based management platform which allows users to analyse and maintain their network. Customers have a choice of four plans, each more advanced and feature heavy than the last.

FatPipe Networks

Previous Niche Player North America Europe Asia-Pacific Large Enterprises

FatPipe Networks have been acknowledged as pioneering the concept of SD-WAN, inventing the software-defined path selection that has become so integral to SD-WAN and seamless failover technologies, even before SD-WAN became widespread industry terminology.

Developing and providing WAN traffic solutions for over 20 years, FatPipe now deploy their SD-WAN solution across six continents and their solutions can manage up to 16 different network links, as well as offering sub-second failover capabilities.

Whilst FatPipe are no longer recognised by the Gartner Magic Quadrant for SD-WAN, they were formerly recognised as a niche player and are positioned as the Leader in the SPARK Matrix for SD-WAN by Quadrant Knowledge Solutions.

One of the other key benefits of FatPipe SD-WAN is its direct integration with Microsoft Azure cloud, which can be largely beneficial for businesses that already leverage Microsoft Azure’s services. Further to this, FatPipe offers enterprises with the ability to deploy as on-premises, cloud or leverage a hybrid solution.

Forcepoint

Niche Player North America Europe Security

With a strong focus on security-driven SD-WAN, Forcepoint not only offers businesses with the ability to protect their network but also allows management of up to 6,000 physical or virtual engines through a single management console. This means that Forcepoint can cater for small, medium and large enterprises.

Forcepoint’s security capabilities can be extended via their SASE offering, which provides options for integrated data protection services. Forcepoint offers security for remote users via a cloud-delivered security gateway, Data Loss Prevention (DLP), and private access to applications. These DLP capabilities are considered industry-leading, with insider threat analytics helping to deliver high detection rates with low false positives. Further to this, Forcepoint offers the industry’s first commercial deployment of Messaging Layer Security (MLS).

Due to these capabilities, Forcepoint SD-WAN recently received a “AAA” rating from CyberRatings.org.

Mushroom Networks

Unranked Latin America Europe Middle East & Africa Multi-tenancy Multi-deployment

Founded in 2004, Mushroom Networks was a spin-off from the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). Mushroom Networks initially focused on community networks and WiFi signal aggregation before specialising in broadband bonding technology, all of which form the foundations of SD-WAN’s core networking capabilities.

By incorporating their patented Broadband Bonding® technology into their SD-WAN solution, Mushroom Networks garnered early recognition, earning them the position of 2016 SD-WAN Company of the Year by Quadrant Knowledge Solutions, however the company has not been ranked by Gartner’s Magic Quadrant.

In July 2017, the company launched its autopilot SD-WAN service for partners, which enables channel partners and service providers to build custom WANs for their end customers. The service provides access to application-centric overlay tunnels and virtual network functions (VNFs) that automate client networks.

Nokia (Nuage Networks)

Niche Player Europe Middle East & Africa Asia-Pacific Managed Services

Nuage Networks are a division of Nokia, who initially developed SDN (Software-Defined Networking) solutions for private data centres, specifically designed to extend traditional network boundaries. With a focus on automated integration of multi-cloud environments, Nuage Networks’ SD-WAN solution is ideal for a wide range of businesses that need the ability to quickly onboard new cloud platforms.

Nuage Networks’ SD-WAN solution offers businesses with support for direct Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) optimisations for applications, such as Office365 and Salesforce. Further to this, they have introduced SD-WAN 2.0 technology, which offers end-to-end network governance across multi-cloud environments, security features including microsegmentation and real-time threat detection and response capabilities.

With 70 certified managed service providers and 700+ enterprise customers, Nuage Networks have a long history of providing managed SD-WAN services for a range of business requirements.

Oracle

Unranked North America Latin America Europe Middle East & Africa Asia-Pacific Enterprise-Grade Networking

Entering the SD-WAN market through its acquisition of Talari Networks in November 2018, Oracle’s SD-WAN solution is especially well-suited for those already using the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.

Further to this, Oracle SD-WAN is ideal for enterprises and large organisations with multiple geographically dispersed locations. Oracle SD-WAN enables these organisations to utilise real time applications, such as VoIP or desktop virtualisation, which can be essential for daily operations. The offering is particularly beneficial for those with multiple WAN links, looking to add bandwidth and/or cloud connectivity whilst retaining a high Quality of Experience (QoE).

Riverbed Technology

Unranked North America Latin America Europe Middle East & Africa Asia-Pacific Large Enterprises

Riverbed began as a leader in WAN optimisation with its Steelhead product line, establishing itself as the market standard for over a decade, which helped them to easily transition into the SD-WAN market, using their expertise to improve network performance. This was assisted by Riverbed’s acquisition of Ocedo in 2016, a German SD-WAN provider, to accelerate their entry into the market.

In April 2016, Riverbed launched SteelConnect as an early access offering and SteelConnect 2.0 became the first production version, which was further improved via Riverbed acquiring Xirrus and using their capabilities to improve the WiFi features of their SD-WAN solution.

In October 2019, Riverbed announced SteelConnect EX, which shifted the SD-WAN solution to a more large-scale and enterprise market focus, with industry-leading application acceleration that, BusinessWire reports, boosts performance up to 33x for cloud, SaaS, and on-premises applications.

SonicWall

Unranked North America Latin America Europe Middle East & Africa Asia-Pacific SMBs

With an original focus on Apple networking products in 1991, SonicWall’s offering began with their firewall and security appliances, which were first introduced in 1997 under the name Interpol before being rebranded. SonicWall differentiates itself by integrating SD-WAN capabilities directly into their firewall appliances, however SonicWall SD-WAN is only supported on these SonicWall firewall devices and is not compatible with third-party VPN solutions.

The SonicWall’s SD-WAN solution primarily targets distributed small and medium businesses (SMB) through their TZ series appliances, which offer businesses with integrations to the SonicWall Capture Cloud Platform, released in 2018, which is a security portfolio that combines features such as Advanced Threat Protection, Security Centre analytics/reporting, endpoint protection and email security.

Sophos

Niche Player North America Latin America Europe Middle East & Africa Asia-Pacific SMBs

Sophos made its debut in the 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for SD-WAN as a Niche Player. Catering to 18,000 SD-WAN enterprise customers globally, Sophos are well-known for their competitive pricing and simplified design for smaller businesses.

Sophos SD-WAN primarily focuses on these smaller and midmarket organisations who are prioritising security, which is highlighted by Sophos being recognised for having limited SD-WAN market visibility for enterprise customers.

Whilst Sophos has limited third-party SSE integrations, Sophos currently partners with Zscaler for SSE capabilities and Sophos indicates they are taking a “pragmatic approach” to cloud-hosted security services, implementing SASE services gradually to add value to hybrid networks.

The second-generation XGS Series firewalls now offer integrated SD-WAN features with flexible ISP and WAN connectivity options, 5G connectivity support and Zero-impact failover with support for up to eight gateways.

Turnium

Unranked North America Latin America Europe Middle East & Africa Asia-Pacific Managed Services

Turnium initially operated with two distinct brands – Turnium for managed SD-WAN-as-a-service and Multapplied for white-labelled OEM solutions, which enabled their channel partners to launch managed Network-as-a-Service SD-WAN solutions.

Since then, Turnium’s SD-WAN solution now operates as a disaggregated SASE solution, where Turnium provides the networking element whilst partners handle security, management, orchestration and other managed services.

Turnium can be deployed on any x86 device as bare metal, in virtual environments and in containers, supporting public and private clouds while enabling hybrid networks. Further to this, Turnium offers integrations via its open API that enables integration with existing OSS/BSS systems, including platforms such as Check Point, Thales and Console Connect.

VMware VeloCloud

Leader North America Latin America Europe Middle East & Africa Asia-Pacific Large Enterprises

VeloCloud was founded in 2012 and since 2017 they have been recognised as an SD-WAN market leader. VeloCloud’s position is supported by their extensive global network of over 3,700 gateways across 200+ Points of Presence (PoPs) and their cloud-native architecture. Further to this, it should be noted that VeloCloud leads the global market for unified SASE with a 44% market share.

VMware VeloCloud offers businesses with a global backbone, as well as the ability to implement external security services and multiple cloud environments, which provides their solution with a wider range of functionality than other vendors (albeit at the cost of greater management complexity).

Due to this, VMware SD-WAN provides cloud integration capabilities, which enables easy connectivity for multiple cloud environments. This is backed up by VeloCloud’s asymmetric routing capabilities enabling connections to cloud services using multiple internet service providers (ISPs) or paths.

VMware’s improved performance enables businesses to carry out tasks such as VoIP and multiple virtual desktops company wide without traffic degradation affecting operations.

WatchGuard Technologies

Unranked North America Latin America Europe Middle East & Africa Asia-Pacific SMBs

Headquartered in Seattle, Washington, WatchGuard Technologies are a global leader in network security and serves more than 250,000 small and midsize enterprises worldwide.

Introducing their initial SD-WAN solution into their Fireware security software suite, replacing their previous policy-based routing solution. This has continued across later iterations, with WatchGuard offering their SD-WAN functionality embedded directly in their Firebox appliances, combining security and SD-WAN in a single platform, which provides a significant cost advantage to small and midsize businesses.

Further security features can be integrated through their Total Security Suite and, as of 2025, WatchGuard are recognised as being well-positioned to meet SD-WAN 3.0 requirements, creating a unified infrastructure for cloud, mobility, and as-a-service technologies.

Zyxel

Unranked North America Europe Asia-Pacific SMBs

First launching it’s SD-WAN solution in 2018, Zyxel states that they “believe that this type of technology should be for everyone”. This ethos has determined their market focus, as Zyxel SD-WAN primarily targets small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), as well as catering to Managed Service Providers (MSPs).

For Managed Service Providers, Zyxel SD-WAN creates new service opportunities by allowing them to deploy multiple endpoints across client sites to create high-availability network clouds.

Zyxel has been awarded the “VPN Champion,” “Network Firewall Best in ROI,” and “Network Firewall Champion” from Security Solutions Professional User Rating 2025 in Germany and, whilst these aren’t specific to their SD-WAN solution, it does highlight Zyxel’s expertise in networking and security – both of which are the core of SD-WAN functionality.

Bigleaf Networks

Unranked North America Europe SMBs

Founded in 2012, Bigleaf Networks have since grown significantly, now offering an extensive backbone with multiple points of presence. The latest edition for these came in 2021, where an eleventh worldwide PoP was delivered in Denver, Colorado – meanwhile, data centers in Seattle, Los Angeles, Dallas, Chicago and New York highlighting Bigleaf’s ability to cater to SMBs.

This makes Bigleaf ideal for businesses that lack extensive IT resources and personnel but need reliable internet connectivity for cloud-based applications, especially when considering that Bigleaf peers with over 150 different cloud, content, and carrier networks.

Whilst Bigleaf does not meet the criteria to gain a Gartner magic quadrant status, Businesswire recognised Bigleaf Networks as a leader in the SD-WAN market, winning multiple G2 Winter 2025 Awards for categories such as Best Estimated ROI, Fastest Implementation and Best Usability.

Checkpoint Software Technologies

Unranked North America Latin America Europe Middle East & Africa Asia-Pacific Large Enterprises

In 1993 Check Point Software Technologies were well-known for initially introducing FireWall-1, the IT industry’s first stateful inspection firewall technology. However, it took until February 2023 for Check Point’s Quantum SD-WAN solution be released.

Much was made of this fact, however, Check Point had previously considered acquiring an SD-WAN vendor but ultimately walked away due to concerns over the quality of the technology and the belief that the integration with both their firewalls and networking code would be far stronger when built from the ground-up.

This delayed entry into the SD-WAN market represents Check Point’s strategic decision to prioritise security integration over speed to market, which should be viewed positively by enterprises that are concerned with security capabilities of a chosen SD-WAN solution.

Further to this, Check Point’s Quantum SD-WAN supports more than 1,000 applications and is positioned as part of a complete SASE package, when combined with their Harmony Connect (SSE) product – extending the range of security features that the solution has to offer.

Cloudflare

Unranked North America Latin America Europe Middle East & Africa Asia-Pacific Large Enterprises

Cloudflare doesn’t offer a traditional SD-WAN solution, but rather an alternative called Magic WAN. Magic WAN is a software-defined underlay built on the company’s private backbone network. While SD-WAN typically relies on physical or virtual appliances at each site, Magic WAN minimises on-premises hardware requirements by leveraging Cloudflare’s global edge network.

Magic WAN forms part of Cloudflare One, their complete SASE platform, integrating with other security features such as Magic Firewall for enforcing network policies at Cloudflare’s edge.

FlexiWAN

Unranked North America Latin America Europe Middle East & Africa Asia-Pacific Open-Source Market

FlexiWAN is the industry’s first open-source SD-WAN solution, removing vendor lock-in and enabling both dynamic third-party applications and integrations with cloud security SASE solutions.

Officially launched in April 2019 at the MPLS+SDN+NFV World event in Paris, FlexiWAN offers a hardware-agnostic model that works on a variety of open computing platforms. This makes it a cost-effective solution, enabling the use of a variety of hardware resources and allows the scaling of small deployments (2 CPU cores and 4 GB RAM) to large servers and cloud platforms.

Since its launch, flexiWAN has grown significantly, with more than 4,000 accounts created on the platform, as of 2025, and with the addition of Adtran’s SmartWAN capabilities, FlexiWAN now brings several AI-driven features to improve performance and reliability for businesses.

Netskope

Leader North America Latin America Europe Middle East & Africa Asia-Pacfic Remote Workforces

In July 2024, Netskope debuted as a Leader in the 2024 Magic Quadrant for Single-Vendor SASE, which includes both Netskope’s Borderless SD-WAN and their Intelligent SSE (Security Service Edge) solution.

Netskope’s SD-WAN journey began with the acquisition of Infiot in 2022, which led to the introduction of Netskope Borderless SD-WAN. Netskope’s NewEdge network, which is where their SD-WAN services reside, spans 71+ regions worldwide, supporting both the hybrid and cloud-first enterprise markets.

Netskope’s approach allows customers to make best-of-breed security and networking decisions without trade-offs, supporting over 75,000 applications with context-aware policies.

Zscaler

Unranked North America Latin America Europe Middle East & Africa Asia-Pacific SMBs

At Zenith Live 2023, Zscaler introduced its first networking appliance as part of its Zero Trust Branch Connectivity product, which moved away from their previous enteries into the SD-WAN market – which had been not as a vendor but as a security partner for existing SD-WAN solutions.

Since then, Zscaler has broaden their solution into a full SASE solution and has become a significant player in the SASE market. Zscaler are now the overall leader in the SASE market, extending their market share to become only the second vendor (after Cisco in Q3 2019) to achieve 20% or more revenue share.

Managed Telco SD-WAN Providers

AT&T

Cisco Catalyst Vmware VeloCloud HPE Aruba EdgeConnect FatPipe Fortinet Palo Alto Prisma North America

AT&T offers a range of managed SD-WAN services, partnering with multiple vendors including Cisco Catalyst, VMware VeloCloud, HPE Aruba EdgeConnect and FatPipe. Providing fully managed and co-managed SD-WAN options, AT&T’s own network-based SD-WAN platform offers features such as direct cloud on-ramps and extensive interoperability. AT&T also offers a self-service SD-WAN option for SMBs through AT&T Business Wi-Fi with Cisco Meraki, providing simplified network management with cloud-based controls.

Since 2022, AT&T has offered its next-generation SD-WAN service to deliver up to 10 Gbps speeds with improved orchestration, allowing customers to run multiple virtual network functions.

AT&T has consistently been recognised as a leader in the managed SD-WAN space, ranking first in the 2019 U.S. Carrier Managed Leaderboard report for SD-WAN Services by Vertical Systems Group.

BT

Versa Networks Cisco Catalyst Cisco Meraki Nuage Networks VNS Palo Alto Prisma Fortinet VMware VeloCloud Europe

BT partners with Cisco Catalyst, Cisco Meraki, Nuage Networks VNS, Palo Alto Prisma, Fortinet, and VMware VeloCloud for its managed SD-WAN services. For businesses with a focus on security and network performance, BT has launched a global managed service with Cisco, as well as security-focused SD-WAN through Fortinet. Their Agile Connect SD-WAN solution, which utilises Nokia Nuage Networks, provides pre-built gateways for businesses requiring regional performance optimisation.

BT is listed in fourth place amongst the top companies for managed SD-WAN services according to Vertical Systems Group’s Global Provider Carrier Managed SD-WAN Leaderboard.

Lumen Technologies (CenturyLink)

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Previously known as CenturyLink, Lumen Technologies delivers fully managed SD-WAN solutions, including partnerships with VMware VeloCloud, Cisco Catalyst, Cisco Meraki, Versa Networks and Fortinet. Lumen integrates AI-driven analytics and automation, also offering co-managed solutions with improved network visibility and control. One of the key benefits of utilising Lumen is their Sovereign Secure SASE solution with Versa, which significantly improves security at the network edge for more rigorously regulated industries – such as financial services.