1SDN in Early Stages While Video Conferencing Goes Mainstream
by Jeffrey Burt
2SDN Adoption on the Way Up
More than one in five organizations—22 percent—will have deployed SDN this year, and that will grow to one in three by the end of 2015. Still, 68 percent of respondents said they have no plans to implement the technology.
3What Is SDN, Anyway?
Thirty-four percent of respondents said they thought SDN was about the automated provisioning of network resources. Another 37 percent said it was undefined, like a trip without a road map.
4SDN Still in the Early Stages
Twelve percent of network engineers and managers said they need SDN now, but 53 percent of engineers said they’ll wait to see how the market unfolds. Almost half of managers—47 percent—have no plans to implement SDN.
5Justification for SDN
The top three reasons for adopting software-defined networking center on the need for greater agility in the face of such trends as cloud computing, virtualization, BYOD and big data.
6UC Hits the Mainstream
Seventy-one percent of respondents said they’ve adopted voice-over-IP (VOIP) while 63 percent are implementing video conferencing. Businesses also are using enterprise instant messaging (49 percent) and Web collaboration applications (46 percent).
7Video Conferencing a Priority
The adoption of video conferencing has been rapid. Over the five years between 2009 and 2014, video conferencing implementations have more than doubled, from about 25 percent of survey respondents to 63 percent.
8UC Picture Is Cloudy
More than half of the survey’s respondents said the lack of visibility into the user experience is the top management challenge regarding UC.
9Hunger for Bandwidth Grows
Twenty-five percent of organizations expect their bandwidth demand to grow 51 percent to 100 percent by 2015. For 12 percent, the growth will be more than 100 percent. Sixty-three percent will see increases of up to 50 percent.
10Looking to 40G bps
Twenty-five percent of businesses will have implemented 40G-bps data rates in their enterprise networks by 2015.
11Where’s the Trouble Coming From?
By far (74 percent), the top application troubleshooting issue is determining whether the problem is being caused by the network, system or application.
12Businesses Going Mobile
By the end of 2015, 62 percent of organizations will have adopted policies for mobile devices and BYOD.
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