It's a Hat Trick! VMware Named a Leader in Gartner 2020 Magic Quadrant for WAN Edge Infrastructure​

VMware SD-WAN continues to set the tempo in network and security! Read the 2020 Gartner Magic Quadrant report to find out more.

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Gartner Magic Quadrant for WAN Edge Infrastructure, Jonathan Forest, Andrew Lerner, Naresh Singh, 23rd September 2020  

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Positioned highest in Ability to Execute and furthest in Completeness of Vision, VMware continues to help customers conduct their network transformation. With our leading-edge VMware SASE Platform™, users can now take advantage of not only our powerful SD-WAN solution, but can deliver on future initiatives using our VMware Secure Access™, VMware Edge Network Intelligence ™, CASB partnerships, SWG partnerships, firewall services, and more!

  • 100+ VMware SASE Platform points of presence (PoPs).
  • Thousands of customers
  • Hundreds of service provider partners
  • Over 200,000 sites

The Vision for the Future

We believe that work is no longer just one place. Employees must be able to work from the office—wherever that may be—work from home, and work from anywhere. And they should also have access and quality of experience anytime. At VMware, we have always been focused on both customer concerns, such as an inconsistent user experience while working remotely, as well as IT Ops concerns, such as difficulty bringing up and managing the growing number of remote sites. COVID-19 and the move to work from home have only exacerbated these concerns and expanded the number of sites in a network.

Our SD-WAN solution addresses these challenges whether they stem from legacy architectures or a dramatically altered business environment. VMware SD-WAN delivers more than just network improvements. We have invested and continue to invest in our vision for the future.

Executing on Our Vision

Thousands of customers around the world have chosen VMware because of our product capabilities, ease of deployment and management, and our ability to deliver dramatically improved network and application performance. We have been recognized and selected in competitive situations for the following reasons:

  • Superior application performance, especially of real time applications like voice or UCaaS
  • Better visibility/control to manage even large complex networks from a single pane of glass
  • Gateway service provides a lower TCO, speed deployment time, and better SaaS/Cloud application access experience
  • Integrated, stateful firewall provides perimeter security
  • Better resiliency to compensate for bandwidth limitations
  • Reduction in downtime through redundant links
  • Dynamic Multipath Optimization™ (DMPO) technology that helps choose the optimal network path and implements on demand remediation if required, even on a single link
  • Seamless cloud on-ramp to Azure, AWS, Google Cloud Platform and Alibaba

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Hear what leading enterprises are saying about VMware SD-WAN.


Begin quotation After a thorough vendor evaluation process, Sprint determined that the VMware SD-WAN solution best aligned with Sprint’s focus on network agility, flexibility and cloud services enablement. End quotation

- Mike Fitz , Vice President , Sprint Global Wireline Business Unit

Begin quotation MetTel consistently strives to provide our customers with more flexible, secure, simplifying and cost saving solutions, and we believe that the VMware SD-WAN offering is highly compatible with our mission. End quotation

- Marshall Aronow , CEO , MetTel

Begin quotation Within the first week we had the VMware SD-WAN set up. Previously, we engaged in an evaluation of the VMware SD-WAN product, and were very satisfied with how the product worked, the ease at which it could be integrated into an existing network and the visibility and manageability it provided. End quotation

- Louis Schreier , Vice President , Deutsche Telekom

Begin quotation VMware SD-WAN delivered a rich feature set and worked better than the other two solutions we tried. It’s so brilliantly designed that our proof of concept took only 30 minutes from the time we unwrapped the boxes. It didn’t take long to realize what a great solution it is. End quotation

- Aaron Gabrielson , Senior Project Manager , Redmond

Begin quotation VMware SD-WAN enables us to deploy remote site offices rapidly, with automated use of one or more LTE services for the capacity and reliability needed. End quotation

- Shawn Partridge , Vice President of IT , Rockford Construction