Roundtables

Time to get flexible

Customer demands for greater flexibility and visibility are driving the growth of software defined networks, to the detriment of the big network operators.

25 October 2016

South Africa has seen a dramatic transformation of the wide area network space over the past decade, with Telkom’s monopoly whittled away by more and more network operators rolling out their own fibre-optic networks. With all this choice available to enterprise users, you’d think companies would have been looking at adopting new ways of managing their network infrastructure, but, according to participants in the recent Brainstorm roundtable, this is not the case.

Says Stuart Hardy, business develoment director of EOH Global Network Divison UK: “The improvements to provision over the last mile and the widespread deployment of fibre has increasingly changed the face of networking, but up until now, companies have continued to deliver and deploy networks the same way they have for the last 25 years. Only in the past year or two have we seen the emergence of what is the future of network management with the growth in software defined networks, and now the benefits of that approach are starting to become clear.”

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