The next big thing? SDN

What's driving Software Defined Networks?

A number of trends are driving the need to re-think network architecture:

• The rise of cloud services. On-demand access to applications through the cloud is now the norm for both consumers and businesses.
• Growing number of endpoints. The surge in consumers using their own mobile devices for work purposes requires networks to be far more flexible and secure.
• Changing traffic patterns. Applications are consuming data stored and processed in disparate cloud servers requiring extremely flexible traffic management and access to bandwidth on demand.
• ‘Big data’ requires more bandwidth. Handling the increasingly common mega datasets requires massive parallel processing that’s fueling a constant demand for additional capacity and any-to-any connectivity.