22 Apr 2024 U.S. Carrier Managed SD-WAN LEADERBOARD

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Comcast Business ascends to #1 rank on 2024 U.S. SD-WAN LEADERBOARD; Ranks change for four of the six leading Managed SD-WAN providers

BOSTON, MA, April 23, 2025 – Vertical Systems Group announces that six companies qualify for a position on the 2024 U.S. Carrier Managed SD-WAN Services LEADERBOARD as follows (in rank order based on site share): Comcast Business, AT&T, Verizon, Lumen, Hughes and Windstream. Each of these service providers has four percent (4%) or more of the billable Carrier Managed SD-WAN customer sites installed in the U.S. as of December 31, 2024.

“The U.S. SD-WAN market continues to expand despite a number of challenges for service providers and customers. These include ongoing platform updates, deployment of multiple SD-WAN solutions, and the confusion around SASE and SSE offers,” said Erin Dunne, Director of Research Services of Vertical Systems Group. “SD-WAN service providers who managed these complexities and effectively scaled their offerings drove the shifts in the LEADERBOARD rankings.”

Eight companies attain a Challenge Tier citation for year-end 2024 as follows (in alphabetical order): Aryaka, Cogent, Cox Business, Fusion Connect, MetTel, Spectrum Enterprise, TPx, and Zayo. Providers in this tier have between one percent (1%) and four percent (4%) share of U.S. Carrier Managed SD-WAN sites.

2024 SD-WAN Research Highlights

  • LEADERBOARD positions shifted for four of the top six U.S. Managed SD-WAN Service Providers.
  • Comcast Business ranks #1 on the 2024 U.S. SD-WAN LEADERBOARD for the first time. The company has steadily ascended in this market segment from the #8 position in 2018.
  • AT&T moves to the #2 position, following its hold on the top LEADERBOARD rank for the last six years.
  • Lumen advances to rank #4, which moves Hughes to the #5 position.
  • Roster of the 2024 LEADERBOARD decreases to six companies from seven as Zayo drops into the Challenge Tier.
  • The top four U.S. LEADERBOARD companies have MEF 3.0 SD-WAN Service Certification: Comcast Business, AT&T, Verizon and Lumen. Spectrum Enterprise is the only Challenge Tier provider with MEF 3.0 SD-WAN Certification.

Market Players include all other providers selling Carrier Managed SD-WAN services in the U.S. with site share below one percent (1%), including global network providers that manage U.S. customer sites. For 2024, the Market Player tier includes the following companies (in alphabetical order): AireSpring, Alta Fiber, American Telesis, Arelion, Astound Business, Bigleaf, BT Global Services, C Spire Business, CentraCom, Colt, Consolidated Communications, Conterra, Crown Castle, DQE Communications, Epsilon, Everstream, First Digital, FirstLight, Flo Networks, Frontier, GCX, Granite Telecom, Great Plains Communication, GTT, Hunter Communications (including InfoStructure), Intelsat, Lightpath, Logix Fiber Networks, Meriplex, Midco, Momentum Telecom, NTT, Orange Business, PCCW Global, PS Lightwave, Ritter Communications, SDN Communications, Segra (including UPN), SES, Shentel Business, Silver Star Telecom, SingTel, Sparklight Business, Syringa, T-Systems, Tata Communications, Telefonica, Telstra, Uniti, US Signal, Virgin Media Business, Vodafone, WiLine, Ziply Fiber, and others.

Carrier Managed SD-WAN Service Definition

Vertical Systems Group defines a Carrier Managed SD-WAN Service for segment analysis and share calculations as a carrier-grade offering for business customers that is managed by a network operator. Required components and functionality for these offerings include an SDN service architecture that provides dynamic optimization of traffic flows, a purpose-built SD-WAN appliance or CPE-hosted SD-WAN VNF at each customer edge site, support for multiple active underlay connectivity services, automated failover fast enough to maintain active sessions, and centralized network orchestration with traffic and application visibility end-to-end. Security is the most essential additional managed SD-WAN service capability that may be provided or integrated based on specific customer requirements.

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