Investor-backed startups are propelling the push to software-defined networking. Since the start of 2012, SDN-related companies have raised over $850M across more than 50 deals.
Funding to the SDN ecosystem has certainly grown including notable $30M+ financings to firms including Cumulus Networks, backed by Battery Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz and Sequoia Capital, as well as go-it-alone Sequoia investment vIPtela.
It’s no secret that mobility, big data, and cloud computing have changed the way we work, interact, and access data. Today’s workforce has more tools to do more things from more locations than ever before. But what if I told you that it was all built on a foundation ill-equipped to handle the job?
The unfortunate reality is that the underlying infrastructure – the way the information we receive, send, and consume is transmitted – is being stretched beyond its capabilities and that some of the promises of a better future are pinned on technologies that have yet to (and might never) fully emerge.
