Enterprises hate it when the companies they buy gear from pass the buck when issues arise, over-hype their sales pitches, and don’t give a heads-up about new products.
Wider acceptance of private 5G will require expanding its uses among early adopters and finding suitable applications for it in other industries.
Single-vendor networking has an edge in enterprises, but SD-WAN and SASE are making a case for open white-box networks.
Network operators need help finding applications that demand fast data delivery in order to justify infrastructure investment.
To create better performing apps, avoid over-reliance on costly user-to-cloud and user-to-data-center network links.
Application workflows can have a significant bad impact on cloud costs and app performance that network pros could head off.
Networking teams need a say in architecting cloud-based applications from the outset to assure it’s even possible for the network and cloud services to adequately support the apps.
Enterprises need a single networking model that can support SD-WAN and virtual networking in order to get the most out of their cloud resources.
Virtual networking will drive NaaS evolution, and cloud-hosted security options will explode.
Enterprises that used cloud networking as part of their network strategy cut network costs 5% to 50%
