According to analyst IDC, the software-defined networking (SDN) market is set to take off, growing to $12.9bn by 2020. Much of this growth will come from webscale datacentres, cloud providers and telco operators.
But SDN is also being adopted by a growing number of enterprise datacentres across a broad range of vertical markets, according to IDC.
Rohit Mehra, vice-president, network infrastructure at IDC, said: “While networking hardware will continue to hold a prominent place in network infrastructure, SDN is indicative of a long-term value migration from hardware to software in the networking industry.”
