Table of Content

Table of Contents:
Executive Summary
1 Introduction
1.1 Topics Covered
1.2 Key Findings
1.3 Target Audience
1.4 Companies Researched
2 SDN Technical Brief
2.1 The Evolution of the Internet
2.2 The History of SDN
2.3 What Is SDN?
2.4 SDN Switches
2.5 Controller
2.6 SDN Applications
2.7 Deploying SDN
2.8 Network Function Virtualization
3 Standards and Open Source
3.1 OpenFlow
3.2 Open Source SDN Controllers
3.3 Open SDN Switches
3.4 Languages
4 SDN Trends
4.1 SDN Selling Proposition
4.2 SDN Restraints
4.3 Evaluating SDN Interest Level
5 Service Provider SDN Strategies
5.1 The Case for SDN
5.2 The Service Provider Dilemma
5.3 Service Provider Case Studies
5.3.1 AT&T
5.3.2 NTT
5.3.3 Orange
5.3.4 Telefónica
5.3.5 Other Service Providers
6 SDN Vendor Strategies
6.1 SDN Challenges Business Models
6.2 The Vendor Dilemma
6.3 The SDN Vendor Landscape
6.4 SDN Vendor Case Studies
6.4.1 Accenture
6.4.2 Nokia Networks
6.4.3 Big Switch
6.4.4 Brocade
6.4.5 Cisco
6.4.6 Dell EMC
6.4.7 Ericsson
6.4.8 Hewlett-Packard Enterprise
6.4.9 Huawei
6.4.10 IBM
6.4.11 Juniper
6.4.12 NEC
6.4.13 Nokia
6.4.14 Oracle
6.4.15 Other Vendors
7 Enterprise SDN Strategies
7.1 The Case for Enterprise SDN
7.2 Enterprise Case Studies
7.2.1 Facebook
7.2.2 Goldman Sachs
7.2.3 Google
7.2.4 Microsoft
8 SDN Market Outlook and Forecasts
8.1 Global SDN 2020 – 2025
8.2 SDN by Solution Type 2020 – 2025
8.2.1 SDN by Network, OS, and Application 2020 – 2025
8.2.2 SDN Network Devices 2020 – 2025
8.2.3 SDN Network Devices by Proprietary and White Box 2020 – 2025
8.3 SDN by Implementation Type 2020 – 2025
8.4 SDN by Deployment Model 2020 – 2025
8.4.1 Software Defined Everything 2020 – 2025
8.4.2 Software Defined Datacenter Market 2020 – 2025
8.5 SDN by Market Segment 2020 – 2025
8.5.1 SDN by Service Providers 2020 – 2025
8.5.2 SDN by Enterprise Vertical 2020 – 2025
8.6 SDN Markets by Regions 2020 – 2025
9 NFV Market Outlook and Forecasts
9.1 Global NFV Market 2020 – 2025
9.2 NFV by Solution 2020 – 2025
9.3 NFV by Deployment Type 2020 – 2025
9.4 NFV by Network (Core and Radio) and Customer Equipment 2020 – 2025
9.5 NFV by Market Segment 2020 – 2025
9.5.1 Carrier Grade NFV 2020 – 2025
9.5.2 NFV Markets by Industry 2020 – 2025
10 Migrating to SDN
10.1 Business Over Technology
10.2 Agile Migration
10.3 The Migration Process
11 Appendix
11.1 Research Methodology
11.2 Glossary

Tables:

Table 1: Comparing SDN Switches with Legacy Switches
Table 2: Comparison of Open Source SDN Controllers
Table 3 Downtime Costs for Carrier-grade and Enterprise-grade
Table 4: Global SDN 2020 – 2025
Table 5: SDN by Solution Type 2020 – 2025
Table 6: SDN by Network, OS, and Application 2020 – 2025
Table 7: SDN Network Devices 2020 – 2025
Table 8: SDN Network Devices by Proprietary and White Box 2020 – 2025
Table 9: SDN by Implementation Type 2020 – 2025
Table 10: SDN by Deployment Model 2020 – 2025
Table 11: Software Defined Everything 2020 – 2025
Table 12: Software Defined Datacenter Market 2020 – 2025
Table 13: SDN by Market Segment 2020 – 2025
Table 14: SDN by Service Providers 2020 – 2025
Table 15: SDN by Enterprise Vertical 2020 – 2025
Table 16: SDN Markets by Regions 2020 – 2025
Table 17: Global NFV Market 2020 – 2025
Table 18: NFV by Solution 2020 – 2025
Table 19: NFV by Deployment Type 2020 – 2025
Table 20: NFV by Network (Core and Radio) and Customer Equipment 2020 – 2025
Table 21: NFV by Market Segment 2020 – 2025
Table 22: Carrier Grade NFV 2020 – 2025
Table 23: NFV Markets by Industry 2020 – 2025

Figures:

Figure 1: Milestones in the history of the Internet
Figure 2: Primary SDN Function: Centralizing Control
Figure 3: Ethernet Switch Exterior
Figure 4: Coordination between SDN Controllers
Figure 5: Network Function Virtualization
Figure 6: Basic OpenFlow Messages
Figure 7: Virtualized SDN Router
Figure 8: Interest in Open SDN
Figure 9: Interest in SDN Vendors
Figure 10: Multi-level Networks with SDN Control
Figure 11: Facebook’s Wedge Switch
Figure 12: Network Topology with Centralized Control
Figure 13: Global SDN 2020 – 2025
Figure 14: SDN by Solution Type 2020 – 2025
Figure 15: SDN by Network, OS, and Application 2020 – 2025
Figure 16: SDN Network Devices 2020 – 2025
Figure 17: SDN Network Devices by Proprietary and White Box 2020 – 2025
Figure 18: SDN by Implementation Type 2020 – 2025
Figure 19: SDN by Deployment Model 2020 – 2025
Figure 20: Software Defined Everything 2020 – 2025
Figure 21: Software Defined Datacenter Market 2020 – 2025
Figure 22: SDN by Market Segment 2020 – 2025
Figure 23: SDN by Service Providers 2020 – 2025
Figure 24: SDN by Enterprise Vertical 2020 – 2025
Figure 25: SDN Markets by Regions 2020 – 2025
Figure 26: Global NFV Market 2020 – 2025
Figure 27: NFV by Solution 2020 – 2025
Figure 28: NFV by Deployment Type 2020 – 2025
Figure 29: NFV by Network (Core and Radio) and Customer Equipment 2020 – 2025
Figure 30: NFV by Market Segment 2020 – 2025
Figure 31: Carrier Grade NFV 2020 – 2025
Figure 32: NFV Markets by Industry 2020 – 2025
Figure 33: Full, Mixed and Hybrid SDN