The adoption of software-defined networking (SDN) is expected to rise in 2016 as service providers and enterprises show more interest in this technology solution.
This is according to Huawei officials, who say over the years, SDN has been moving very fast and has become critical because enterprises are looking to get more value from their investments, networking and data centres.
Speaking at the 2015 Huawei Cloud Congress in Shanghai, Swift Liu, president of Huawei's switch and enterprise communications solutions, said SDN is critical because data centres are growing at an alarming rate and enterprises need to move with the times.
Liu explained that enterprises and service providers will adopt SDN as they see it as a way to make their private cloud work better for them. SDN has become an inevitable plan from a practical and professional perspective, he noted.
"The cloud is growing bigger and bigger, and traditional networking cannot satisfy the requirements," he said. "SDN is the future trend because it provides much more power and allows enterprises to do many things, which can't be done today."
According to Liu, SDN is the paradigm that can scale up and allow enterprises to keep up with data centres. "The traditional network is not adequate because it is the hardware-defined network; however, software can change the whole network."
As a result of the expected increase in adoption of SDN, Liu explained Huawei is moving faster with SDN in 2015, as the Chinese firm unveiled its Open Cloud Fabric (OCF) architecture for SDN.
"The OCF is a big step in networking because the cloud and networks become fully open so that businesses can control their networking resources on demand based on their applications," Liu added.
Huawei says its data centre network has an annual growth rate of 137%. The company expects to grow even faster as the whole industry is moving into cloud and SDN.
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