With Software Defined Networking (SDN), Software Defined Wide Area Networks (SD-WAN), Network Function Virtualization (NFV) and the overall disaggregation of networking from hardware, IDC’s view is that now is an exciting time for networking.
At the 2015 IDC Interop breakfast meeting the analyst firm forecast that the SDN market would reach $8 billion in revenue by 2018.Back in 2012, IDC forecast SDN to generate $3.7 billion by 2016.
From a larger macro perspective, IDC sees the emerging world for the Internet of Things (IoT) to be the largest opportunity on the horizon, generating a staggering $1.46 Trillion in revenues by 2020. IDC is also seeing growth in both private and public cloud networking related revenues which will have an impact on enterprise data centers.
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