Indian Enterprises Moving Forward - The SDN Way

- Chitresh Sehgal

Having created quite a buzz in recent times, SDN is today on the cusp of becoming mainstay for enterprise with large network of operations. With high speed data connectivity becoming a basic demand across verticals mandating a major haul of existing networking technologies. This is further fueled by significant evolution in the way enterprises function today. With increasing awareness of the myriad business benefits offered by the Digital, today, well-equipped IT Teams headed by dynamic CIOs are collaborating endlessly with technology providers to enhance their digital presence and capabilities. The move towards cloud-based service delivery architectures and increasing use of automation in enterprise functions has made Software-Defined Networks (SDN) an area of great potential for enterprise to adopt in the days to come.

The global SDN market too compliments this with a true blueprint of the growing numbers. As per a recent industry report, the global SDN market for the enterprise and cloud service provider segments grew from $960 million in 2014 to over $8 billion in 2018, representing a strong CAGR of 89.4%. The report bases this on the increasing deployments across the SDN ecosystem which includes in-use physical network infrastructure, controller and network-virtualization software, SDN network and security services and related applications, and SDN-related professional services.