Respondents to our InformationWeek Next-Generation WAN Survey are a highly connected bunch: 44% are tasked with connecting 16 or more branch or remote offices to headquarters or primary data centers, and more than half spend 11% or more of their IT budgets on wide area connectivity. So we weren’t surprised when one respondent asked an interesting rhetorical question: “Shouldn’t there be a Moore’s Law of WAN connectivity?”

At least, we think it was rhetorical.

IT’s frustration with the pace of service provider innovation is understandable. As with so many technology areas, from storage to app dev, user demand for WAN bandwidth is rising at a faster clip than what companies are willing to pay for, and providers moving slowly on upgrades isn’t helping.
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