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Packet Design Releases Results of Cross-Continent SDN Survey
SANTA CLARA, Calif. --(Business Wire)--
U.S. and European service providers share similar SDN business drivers
and challenges, but Europe has a lower deployment rate and is more
concerned about reducing costs as well as managing the technology. These
are the main results of a Packet
Design survey of more than 200 network service providers on both
continents. The company polled more than 100 service providers and
equipment providers at the 2014 MPLS SDN World Congress in Paris last
month (more than half of the respondents were based in Europe). This
adds to the results of the survey
of 100 service providers Packet Design (News - Alert) conducted at the 16th annual
MPLS/SDN International Conference in Washington, D.C. last November.
Key Findings:
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More than 90 percent of the 200+ survey respondents are exploring SDN
in some way. However, only eight percent of EU-based respondents said
they currently have some production deployment compared to 20 percent
of the U.S. survey respondents.
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Both geographies indicated the same SDN business drivers: support new
services, increase business agility, and improve productivity. Europe
is more concerned about reducing expenditures: More than one-third of
European respondents said reducing operational (19 percent) or capital
(13 percent) expenditures is the top business reason for investigating
SDN. In the U.S., it is 13 percent and four percent, respectively.
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Service providers on both continents agreed that complexity is their
number one concern about SDN (Europe: 46 percent; U.S.: 57 percent).
They also agreed on other top concerns: vendor lock-in (25 percent
average), cost to implement (25 percent average), and lack of
management visibility (22 percent average). An average of 11 percent
said SDN is not worth the effort and cost. (Respondents were able to
list more than one concern.)
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Europeans are even more concerned than their stateside counterparts
that some of their existing management tools will not work with SDN
(85 percent versus 71 percent in the U.S.). Most also agree that SDN
creates new management challenges that require new tools (average of
83 percent). About one-third of the 200+ surveyed are depending upon
their network equipment vendor(s) to supply the SDN management tools
they need.
"The survey results show that service providers have the will to move to
SDN, but Europe is being a bit more conservative deploying it," said
Steve Harriman, senior vice president of marketing for Packet Design.
"The complexity and new management challenges the respondents called out
provide good reason for caution, since traditional management and
device-centric methods and tools will be inadequate in an automated
network. Whether building their own or waiting on vendors to develop SDN
management tools, service providers and enterprises alike need real-time
intelligence to gain visibility into and control of the SDN environment
before it can be widely adopted."
For the full survey results, visit the Packet Design blog at: http://www.packetdesign.com/blog/comparing-and-contrasting-sdn-across-the-pond
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About Packet Design
Founded in 2003, Packet Design has pioneered the complex science of
route analytics to address today's network management challenges. The
Route Explorer System monitors network-wide routing and traffic,
providing operational alerts to failures and anomalies. Analyses and
DVR-like replay capabilities speed troubleshooting, and routing and
traffic modeling helps network planners predict the impact of changes
and new workloads. Packet Design's unique real-time routing intelligence
will be a critical enabler for the programmable and dynamic software
defined networks of the future. The world's largest telecommunications
companies, mobile operators, MSOs, service providers, enterprises and
government agencies use the Route Explorer System to improve network
availability and performance while maximizing the return on assets.
Visit http://www.packetdesign.com
for more information.
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