The significance of SDN deployment in developing countries

If you haven't been to Brazil, you should go there if you have the chance. In this newly industrialized country, IT geeks are almost the same as their American counterparts. Even without decades of IT foundation, they are actively promoting SDN to accelerate economic development.

SDN deployment: truly realizing IT-driven innovation

For many countries, investing in IT is now a smart move that can boost GDP. This is not the old, soft government-driven hardware refresh, but IT-driven innovation that truly demonstrates business value. Companies are investing for a second or third time based on proven results, not just speculative investments. They are actively seeking new solutions.

In these countries, new IT technologies mean new opportunities, and they are often willing to think about, discover and try new technologies, which gives new technologies such as SDN a unique advantage, and they are not biased against them.

Brazil's infrastructure, especially in some of the larger cities, is a tangled mess of cables and equipment. There are probably more fibers, switches, and routing equipment. It's obviously dynamic, and service providers have countless spare media in circulation to quickly adapt to new circuit requests.

Reduce losses caused by infrastructure

Often, the biggest barrier to adopting new technology is old deployment habits, especially when it comes to networking. We worry about reliability, cost, security, and of course, we worry about getting fired. But because today's networks have changed relatively little in nearly three decades, we're willing to try anything, like deploying SDN, which will fundamentally change the foundation of service delivery.

However, developing countries don't have to worry about millions of miles of wires, engineers don't have to manage data centers, and executives don't think of NetWare or IPX when purchasing. They can skip 10G and go straight to 40G fiber. They prefer to think of the network as a universal service rather than a hardware facility that is only associated with traditional operating methods.

For administrators born in the age of hypervisors, networking has seriously regressed, and they are looking for remedies. Software-defined networking (SDN) and other technologies can help overcome labor and budget constraints. No operator wants to haul boxes by the truckload anymore, and enterprise architects need more adaptable products from service providers.

SDN is worth the wait

Next year will see a surge in SDN deployments, especially in countries where IT is less mature. There will finally be enough SDN products for enterprises to choose from. There will also be training and communities that administrators have always relied on, as well as some localized certifications. In the short term, the total amount of SDN adoption in developing countries is likely to exceed that in more mature IT countries.

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