Data Center SDN Still Stuck in Trial Phase, IHS Says

Software-defined networking ( #SDN ) is having trouble moving beyond the trial phase. According to a research note by IHS Markit analyst Cliff Grossner from the 2016 Data Center SDN Strategies Global Service Provider Survey, only 22 percent of service providers are in live production of data center SDN. Meanwhile, 28 percent of service providers are in production trials and two thirds are still only conducting lab trials of data center SDN — down from three-quarters in 2015. The number of respondents that are either in production trials and live data center SDN deployment in 2016 was lower than expected based on the answers respondents gave last in 2015. Grossner expected that 89 percent of respondents would be in either lab or production trials of data center SDN and 60 percent would have live deployments by the end of 2016.
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