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The SDN Balancing Act

March 21, 2013 | Phil Harvey |
What balance will service providers find with SDN?

As they embrace more flexible networks that offer more control to customers -- as software-defined networking (SDN) suggests is possible -- some interesting questions arise.

If service providers are able to deliver more bandwidth on demand, that allows enterprises to be more flexible. The enterprise won't need to spend the time planning for things it can buy easily on demand.

But if bandwidth on demand is so easy to turn on and off, will those same enterprises continue to pay for constant connections when they only use some of that always-on access some of the time?



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