Mobile Operators are the Key to Making Edge Real

Network assessments are an effective way to demonstrate the value of your managed network services to prospects. Whether you charge for the assessment itself or simply use it as an entry to a managed service package, we’ll show you how to build network assessments into your sales and marketing plans for 2019. Join Steve Petryschuk, Director, Systems Engineering at Auvik on a one-hour walk-through on performing, reporting, and pricing network assessments, and get a free how-to guide and network report template.

Intent-based networking (IBN) is the catch-all term for the gradual shift from today’s manual network operations to a more hands-off automated ecosystem. Using AI, sensor-driven data flows, virtual abstraction and a host of other technologies, the idea is simply to define what you hope to achieve, then let the data environment itself configure the network in the most optimal way to suit those needs.

To achieve Internet and cloud speed and scale, enterprises must adopt solutions that are programmable and API-driven. And while storage, compute, and code have all been automated, data remains a rigid part of the stack that’s managed via slow and manual processes— bottlenecking everything from application development to cloud adoption.

While most data centers are prepared for current bandwidth demands and maintain up-to-date backbones, some enterprise networks are in danger of falling behind. Increased wireless traffic has already taxed many enterprise environments. Evolving IEEE 802.11 standards such as 802.11ac Wave 1, Wave 2, and 802.11ax — along with bring-your-own-device (BYOD) policies — encourage more Wi-Fi activity and place significant strain on existing 1000BASE-T systems. This demand has pushed network speed requirements beyond 1 Gb/s. Enterprise networks will fail to meet the growing demand for reliable network performance without the right cabling infrastructure in place.