"NEC Corp..plans to generate more than 150 billion yen in sales from software-defined networking services in 2015... The global market for SDN services is expected to grow roughly 13-fold from 2012 levels to 1.3 trillion yen in 2015, according to NEC."
Source: NEC Aims For Y150bn In Sales From Software-Defined Networking
The Nikkei
July 11 2013