The SDN market is still forming, and the top market share slots will change hands frequently, but currently the segment leaders are Dell, HP, VMware and White Box, according to researchers. SDN will cross the chasm in 2016, with SDN in-use physical Ethernet switches accounting for 10 percent of Ethernet switch market revenue, researchers said. According to other market findings, SDN still spells opportunity for existing and new vendors. The leaders in the SDN market serving the enterprise data center will be solidified during the next 2 years as 2015 lab trials give way to live production deployments, the report said. Also, bare metal switches are the top in-use for SDN-capable switch use case and researchers expect SDN network virtualisation overlays (NVOs) to go mainstream in 2016.
