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LOS ALAMITOS, Calif., Nov. 25, 2014 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- Software-defined networking will give administrators unprecedented flexibility, increasing control of network traffic and applications and taking management down to a granular level. The promise of SDN is so great that IDC estimates that the global market for SDN will increase eightfold to US $8 billion by 2018.