Software-defined networks create different business opportunities

Mehmet Özpolat
December 25, 2014

Although it has been launched recently, SDN has become popular rapidly and started to be used in our daily work life.  SDN architecture can meet an important necessity for more efficient networks with respect to flexible structure, administration simplicity and performance. Thanks to a common language established for device communication, all active network equipments have centralized administration and planning instead of conventional “hardware-dependant” approach. Therefore, very effective networks can be achieved with respect to flexibility, easy administration and performance. SDN concept starts to create different business operations in the sector by also considering operational costs and security advantages.

Corporate networks in Turkey has been developing and growing in recent years. These kind of structures should keep themselves always updated. They obtain many benefits with SDN solutions such as flexibility, security and operational costs. Organizations should prefer SDN-supported products for supplementary devices for new-established data centers or existing network products. Anyway, almost all manufacturers produce their products according to this. SDN seems to be a proper solution for the organizations that need consolidation in existing network structuring.

Conventional Approach is not Sufficient Anymore

Growing data centers and differentiated technologies showed that conventional approach is not sufficient for network management. Especially recently developed cloud information, visualization, mobility technologies have made network management integrable with more dynamic and new structures. Variety in applications operating under distributed architectural structure and new generation devices of the users using these applications emerged the need for easiliy managed network management without personnel support. Data centers have been growing and getting more complex day by day, performance management in such data center is another important issue.

More proactive solutions are now developed for network management in the world and in Turkey as well. Simultaneous proceeding is essential to catch up with rapidly developing and changing product and service variety and network management.  The companies which still implement conventional approach in this field should think about developing their systems by new network management technologies. Security, performance management and control are main topics in network management technologies. Network management approach out of these topics will cause failure in rapidly changing/growing product and service approach.