Huawei Recognized as a Customers' Choice Distinction in the Gartner^® Peer Insights™ Voice of the Customer for SD-WAN for 4 Consecutive Years

—— The Only Non-North American Vendor to Receive This Distinction, with the Highest Overall Rating (5/5 Stars) and 100% Customer Willingness to Recommend

[Shenzhen, China, March 11, 2024] Recently, Huawei announced that it has been named a 2024 Customers' Choice distinction in the Gartner® Peer Insights™ Voice of the Customer for SD-WAN Report. As of December 31, 2023, Huawei received a total of 81 customer reviews and got the highest overall rating (5/5 stars) and 100% customer willingness to recommend, differentiating Huawei from other peer vendors.

Huawei recognized a 2024 Gartner® Peer Insights™ Customers' Choice distinction

Huawei's SD-WAN Solution stands out with best-in-class networking capabilities, enabling various WAN-side interconnections needed for enterprises of all sizes and carriers. By supporting diversified uplinks such as 5G and wired uplinks, Huawei SD-WAN is an ideal choice for enterprises who look for diversified networking options and enhanced flexibility.

In addition, this solution implements unified cloud management across LANs and WANs, greatly simplifying service rollout and Operations and Maintenance (O&M) of myriad branches. Other highlights, such as intelligent traffic steering and application optimization, promise superior experience for key applications at branches.

On the Gartner® Peer Insights™ platform, 11 SD-WAN vendors around the world were comprehensively evaluated. Customers from various industries, such as finance, manufacturing, and public services, provided feedback on such vendors' SD-WAN products and solutions from multiple dimensions, including product functionality, sales experience, deployment and O&M, and service support.

The overall messages from customers who chose Huawei's SD-WAN solution are extremely positive. Below are some excerpts:

• "After Huawei's CloudWAN solution is deployed, branches communicate with each other through VPN technologies, improving the efficiency of service rollout in branches. Data is encrypted for transmission, ensuring data transmission security on the network. In addition, the SDN technology on the entire network greatly reduces network O&M costs and facilitates graphical user interface (GUI)."[1] — A customer in the construction industry

• "The SD-WAN is very smart, because we have different links in different branches, Huawei SD-WAN can always help us to select the best paths for our branches."[2] — A customer in the transportation industry

• "Huawei's SD-WAN solution is deployed between our company's branches and headquarters. Converged LAN and WAN management is impressive."[3] — A customer in the finance industry

"We are thrilled to be named a 2024 Gartner® Peer Insights™ Customers' Choice. We deeply appreciate the trust of global customers of our SD-WAN solution," said Wang Ping, Director of Huawei's SD-WAN Solution. "In the past few years, Huawei SD-WAN has delved into user pain points and requirements, and improved user experience of multi-cloud and multi-branch interconnections through non-stop innovation. Looking ahead, we will continue to strengthen R&D investment to provide users with more intelligent and secure SD-WAN offerings."

For more information about Huawei's NetEngine AR routers and SD-WAN solution, please visit: https://e.huawei.com/en/solutions/enterprise-network/campus-network/sd-wan

Source

https://www.gartner.com/reviews/market/sd-wan

Declaimer

Gartner, Voice of the Customer for SD-WAN, 29 February 2024

1. Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice constitute the subjective opinions of individual end-user reviews, ratings, and data applied against a documented methodology; they neither represent the views of, nor constitute an endorsement by, Gartner or its affiliates.

2. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in its research publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings or other designation. Gartner research publications consist of the opinions of Gartner’s research organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.