5 Things You Need to Know about Software Defined Networking

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Software-defined networking (SDN) is rapidly being adopted by many businesses across our region. According to IDC, the SDN market in the Asia Pacific region (excluding Japan), consisting of spending from the enterprise and cloud service provider segments, is set to grow from \$US6.2 million in 2013 to over \$US1 billion by 2018. There's a reason for that explosive growth.

The challenges and opportunities associated with the explosion of cloud, mobility and big data are growing dramatically, putting immense pressure on networks. A software-defined network can successfully alleviate a lot of that pressure.

But SDN is still a relatively new concept, and understanding is not high. Before you embark on deploying SDN in your IT environment, here are five things you and your company must be aware of:

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