Comparing the benefits of a cloud UC solution with the traditional premise-based deployment.
The market is in transition, and VMware's competitors are using that transition to gain some ground on it.
While many of the big box vendors may be pushing programmability, customers are more concerned with other aspects of SDNs.
A new keyboard could make softphone calling from the desktop more common.
While HP has made a little noise in the SDN space, Juniper's recent announcement is the biggest step into software-defined networking the industry has seen.
Another recent ruling favors Brocade in its legal battle against A10.
At CES 2013, Cisco's demonstration of Videoscape Unity gave us a glimpse of the future of internet-connected TV.
SDN, network monitoring, and RIM all have high hopes for 2013.
While most of the focus around SDNs has been the impact on layer 2/3 switch vendors, we still need to consider how it affects traffic visibility vendors.
In 2013, software-defined networking will see more development but will not reach mainstream status, while Cisco makes a big acquisition and Microsoft begins its resurgence.
