The software-defined networking (SDN) market will grow
sixfold during the next five years, fueled by cloud computing, according to the
Dell’Oro Group.
According to the firm's Data Center Disruptors Advanced
Research Report, the majority of this market will be composed of Ethernet
switches and network security appliances, which are projected to represent 75%
of total sales revenue in 2013.
"The data center portion of the Ethernet Switch market
that sells into enterprises is plateauing," Alan Weckel, vice president at
Dell’Oro Group, said in an email interview. "But the surge [in] cloud
deployments is causing the overall data center portion of the Ethernet switch
market to grow. It is likely that SDNs biggest impact over the next several
years will occur in the cloud -- both public and private -- and not in
traditional enterprise data centers." Read more.
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