{"id":5382,"date":"2016-03-04T15:34:31","date_gmt":"2016-03-04T15:34:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.telecomstalk.com\/?p=5382"},"modified":"2018-06-06T09:59:51","modified_gmt":"2018-06-06T09:59:51","slug":"exponential-e-exposes-lack-of-understanding-surrounding-sdn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.telecomstalk.com\/?p=5382","title":{"rendered":"Exponential-e Exposes Lack of Understanding Surrounding SDN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Survey highlights lack of understanding of new networking controls <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Software Defined Network (SDN) is being labelled as the future of networking for its ability to deliver greater efficiency and automation. However, research from British cloud and network provider, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.exponential-e.com\/\">Exponential-e<\/a>, has revealed that 86 per cent of businesses do not understand SDN and 95 per cent do not know what benefits it could bring to their enterprise. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn an innovate or fail society, an agile and responsive network is central to driving competitive advantage,\u201d explained Chris Christou, Director of Engineering at Exponential-e. \u201cProviding a business with the ability to manage and control their Network themselves enables them to support their business internally in their drive for increased revenues.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>SDN effectively allows organisations to reconfigure network services on-demand. Enterprises are no longer subject to change controls, service tickets or related support and management fees. Instead they can adapt the services that network providers deliver, through a simple self-service interface.<\/p>\n<p>Given the IT difficulties being faced by businesses in 2016, more organisations need to take advantage of SDN to eliminate the bottleneck of human intervention and provide a central system to manage the services required, and monitor the associated activity. In total, nearly a third (32 per cent) of respondents are battling escalating software and hardware costs, 21 per cent admitted that there is a lack of internal control over the network and 17 per cent said that infrastructure was unable to cope with growth. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cSDN increases efficiency and supports the flexibility demanded by fast moving organisations that are tasked with responding to unexpected outages and breaks in service. Using the database as a master A-Z then it\u2019s possible to map the optimum route to instantly reconfigure networks, reduce latency and meet peaks or troughs in demand,\u201d concluded Christou. \u201cSDN effectively removes the impenetrable barrier between a customer and network provider, providing a more flexible and agile way to manage network configurations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Exponential-e surveyed 100 UK business and IT leaders online from the 5th January 2016 to the 9th January 2016. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><em>Survey highlights lack of understanding of new networking controls <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Software Defined Network (SDN) is being labelled as the future of networking for its ability to deliver greater efficiency and automation. However, research from British cloud and network provider, Exponential-e, &#8230; <span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telecomstalk.com\/?p=5382\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1719,1718],"class_list":["post-5382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-chris-christou","tag-exponential-e"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.telecomstalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.telecomstalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.telecomstalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.telecomstalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.telecomstalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5382"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.telecomstalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5383,"href":"http:\/\/www.telecomstalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5382\/revisions\/5383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.telecomstalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.telecomstalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.telecomstalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}