Juniper Networks Commissioned IDC Study Finds Majority of Large Enterprises in India Set To Deploy SDN in 2016

A Juniper Networks commissioned study by IDC titled “Understanding SDN is the key to transformation”, surveyed 171 IT decision-makers from over 151 organizations across various industries, to find out more on their plans to deploy SDN in their networks. The study found that a majority of large enterprises in India were planning to deploy Software Defined Networking (SDN) technologies as part of their network architecture by 2016.

Highlights from the study:

63% of large enterprises in India plan to deploy SDN as part of their network architecture in 2016.

22% of the respondents were “users,” defined as organizations that have deployed SDN in the pilot stage while the rest of the respondents were “intenders” who were planning to deploy SDN in the near future. Among the “intenders,” 40% were planning to deploy SDN within the next year, while the other 60% were aiming to deploy SDN after two years or more.

59% said they understood the concept of SDN or understood the technology completely.

42% of intenders and 34% of users do not have a specific budget assigned to the purchase of SDN solutions.

19% of intenders and 28% of users are willing to consider more than 7% of their IT budget for SDN implementation.

Key concerns around SDN adoption: Although 86% of respondents projected that enterprise networks of the future will be a combination of SDN and traditional networks, they also cited initial concerns like difficulty in integrating SDN with already deployed or available infrastructure, security concerns, technical skill gap, total cost of ownership, and lack of management.