Dell: SDN won't turn enterprise switches into commodity gear for 3-5 years

Software-defined networking won't turn enterprise switches into an inexpensive commodity until three to five years from now, according to Arpit Joshipura, the former Force10 Networks executive who now manages Dell's networking products.

The original promise of SDN (software-defined networking), which puts most higher-level network functions into software, was to make switches into mere forwarding engines that may be interchangeable and cost far less than they do now, said Joshipura, head of product management and marketing at Dell Networking, at a press briefing on Thursday.

Source: http://podcasts.infoworld.com/d/virtualization/dell-sdn-wont-turn-enterprise-switches-commodity-gear-3-5-years-201427?source=rss_virtualization

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