According to research from Ericsson, we’re on pace for 50 billion connected devices by 2020. Underpinning this Internet of Things ecosystem will be a sea of fixed and wireless networks that require the flexibility to deal with a huge diversity of use cases, network resiliency demands, and operating models. And yet the IoT represents just one of many applications that Software Defined Networking may well be called upon to address (and at the moment, the technology is still very much in an early stage of adoption).