H3C Registers Fastest Sales Growth in China’s SD-WAN Infrastructure Market in 2021: IDC Report

H3C became the best performer in China’s software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) infrastructure market in 2021 with a 147.8-percent year-on-year growth in annual sales, significantly higher than the average sales growth rate in the market, and a market share of 21.7 percent, the second largest in the market, said a report titled “IDC China SD-WAN Tracker” recently released by International Data Corporation (IDC).

China’s SD-WAN market expanded 89.9 percent year on year to a size of $190 million last year, signaling a stage of wide application, according to the report.

Over the past two years, the COVID-19 pandemic has speeded up the digital transformation of many industries and fields. As more and more enterprises move their workloads to the cloud, pain points and challenges confronting traditional branch networks, including inadequate active operation and maintenance (O&M) capability, difficulty with upgrading and expansion, closed and rigid architecture, and high costs, become increasingly prominent.

In order to reduce costs and increase efficiency, many multi-branch enterprises have employed SD-WAN to improve business agility, enhance support for cloud applications, and raise efficiency in network resource scheduling.

Upgraded H3C AD-WAN Solution Boosts In-depth Integration of Cloud, Network, Security Capabilities

As a leader in SDN solutions in China, H3C has rolled out Application-Driven Network (AD-NET) solution, which always gives priority to meeting customers’ business needs and evolves continuously according to the needs of different scenarios. In WAN scenarios, H3C’s Cloud & AI-Native Application-Driven Wide Area Network (AD-WAN) solution has constantly pursued innovations and explorations in the five major fields of technology architecture, business experience, security monitoring and control, O&M management, and business model, in a bid to help customers build SD-WAN that supports cloud deployment and functional decoupling. Through cloud-native unified architecture, H3C AD-WAN solution realizes end-to-end business collaboration and improves users’ business experience. Meanwhile, the solution provides users with one-stop services covering every link from endpoint access to security cloud, and ensures smooth business operations by establishing three-dimensional defense system covering cloud, network and terminal. H3C also makes active efforts to explore NaaS models, gathers pace in building an open ecosystem, and provides customers with complete secure access service edge (SASE) service networks and solutions.

This year, H3C AD-WAN solution, which has been constantly evolving to better meet the needs of different industries and application scenarios, has completed major upgrades. With five important new features, including operation mode, WAN optimization, multi-cloud connection, end-to-end SRv6, and SASE business automation, the solution can provide better application experience and security capabilities and is more capable of satisfying the diverse needs of different industries.

The upgraded AD-WAN solution supports managed service provider (MSP) mode and cloud management mode and has been deployed on UniCloud, significantly reducing the deployment costs and increasing test efficiency. It offers ultimate user experience through WAN optimization and automatic connection among multiple clouds. The solution’s unified WAN and end-to-end SRv6 can satisfy the customer needs in the carrier and finance sectors, among others, for end-to-end management, control and O&M. In addition, the new feature of SASE business automation can help provide nearby security cloud services for enterprise branches.

H3C AD-WAN solution has been widely applied in industries including finance, retail, government, manufacturing, the Internet, and electric power. In an effort to meet differentiated needs, H3C, by strengthening core technological capabilities, has developed tailored and scenario-based SD-WAN solutions for various industries.

Against the backdrop of enterprises’ every-growing needs for digital transformation, costs reduction and efficiency improvement, the SD-WAN market is embracing a new stage of booming development. Sticking to its Cloud & AI Native strategy, H3C will continue ramping up efforts to help customers build intelligent WAN that covers all scenarios, domains, and the entire life cycles of their business operations, thus giving a much-needed boost to the digital transformation of various industries.