Verizon today unveiled its corporate-wide strategy for moving to SDN, naming five key vendors that are its current partners in the effort and promising "meaningful" deployments across a converged wireless-wireline network by 2016. Citing scalability and flexibility for the Internet of Things world and speed to market of new services as its two big drivers, Verizon Communications Inc. VP-Network Planning Brian Higgins admitted his company's strategy is different from those announced to date because Verizon is working directly with Alcatel-Lucent , Cisco Systems Inc. , Ericsson AB , Juniper Networks Inc. and Nokia Networks in developing software-based solutions and strategies.
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