This is the third and final post on the market segmentation relevant to Software Defined Networking and so we’ll be taking a look at the Enterprise Market. For our purposes we’ll set the bottom limit on Enterprises as companies with at least 50 employees, anything smaller would be classified as an Small Businesses. One of […]
SDN Market Landscape – Service Providers
In the prior post, I talked about the cloud-scale SDN market, in this post we’ll take a look at the second market segment marching down the path (or at least checking the route on Google Maps) towards SDN – the Service Provider market. Service Provider solutions are themselves further delineated by their target application: Core Networks, […]
SDN – Market Landscape Part 1
In the previous post introducing Software Defined Networking and the philosophical camps which were influencing its evolution, I defined three theoretical points of view: The Purist, The Architect and The Establishment. These points of view, and the ways in which they blend together help us understand how the market players are motivated to improve and […]
Software Defined Networking – Introduction
Software Defined Networking means many things to many people, but there are three principle schools of thought that can be distilled from all the commentary: the Purists, the Architects and the Establishment. Each has distinct goals, which may or may not solve the needs of particular markets. These groups each have a distinct vision of […]