A major market for telcos will be the enterprise adoption of SDN. They will be able to harness the SDN/NFV innovations from the telco industry, and apply the technologies within their data centres, as well as using new telco services that they enable.
As SearchDataCenter describes NFV offers the potential to unify the data center, and will be driven under an overall umbrella of SDDC – Software Defined Data Centre.
VMware explains Why Enterprises are Ready for Network Virtualization, and positions their NSX technology as a platform for SDDC. Example use case scenarios are being pioneered such as Virtual Customer Edge – the ability to virtualize the customer edge either through creation of a virtualized platform on customer premises.