SDN and Commoditizing the Network

In a recent article, GigaOm’s Stacey Higginbotham writes about SDN (and more specifically, OpenFlow) and commoditization. She asserts the following:
“If 2012 was the year that software-defined networking sold out, then 2013 should be the year that the big players in the industry recognize that their efforts to neutralize the threat of OpenFlow and the coming commoditization of networking...