IoT is a Cloud Network

Cloud Native, SDN and SOA are all techniques not technologies. IoT is not a technique it is a use case that needs to use the above mentioned techniques to enable a mesh of connections that is manageable, secure and most of all just works. IoT could use any infrastructure including the carrier network but it is most likely end up using the cloud as a IaaS. IoT is a cloud networking problem that needs some connectivity middleware to sit on top of a virtual network. IoT is an application designed using SOA that will provision its network using SDN and will use ephemeral compute threads that have preexisting binding to the language runtimes.