Scaling Low Latency Networks Up and Out with Next Generation Arista 7130 Series

We bring you two perspectives on this topic. First, from the network assurance and performance monitoring point of view. Explain how a service provider could build their SLA’s from a quality perspective, but also how to measure the SLA’s in real-time with confidence. The second perspective comes from the data center context. We view how connection quality becomes one of the key elements when delivering services to different audiences through the cloud.

Moving into the cloud also poses a number of challenges that need to be considered as well such as deciding which workloads to run in the public cloud and which to run privately. Also multi-cloud strategies need to be considered, not to mention security, compliance and governance. However, many miss to consider the importance of a proper service quality assurance strategy in order to ensure that the user experience remains the same when accessing an application from the cloud compared to a private, on-site IT infrastructure.

The advent of 5G has opened a tremendous opportunity for enterprises to accelerate their digitization journey with IIoT to not only address transformation needs across their value chain, but also to drive innovation in their products & services. But such an organization-wide digitalization will lead to the generation of huge amounts of data that will need to be processed in real-time and then drive actionable insights. The existing Big Data processing technology uses cloud infrastructure to support the required storage and with 5G, the challenges related to latency will be minimized greatly. With most organizations realizing the business benefits of a 5G-based digital transformation and cloud adoption, we are at the cusp of a major cloud transformation. However, the complexities of cloud transformation can be challenging, and enterprises have to start looking for an E2E offering along with suitable partners, addressing needs both from a technology solution perspective as well as integration capabilities.

Compared to their predecessors, 5G networks will support services that provide high bandwidth, very high user density, and extremely low latency.  These disparate (and sometimes conflicting) characteristics can be met with network architectures that utilize the latest in containerized software technologies running on distributed, off-the-shelf IT infrastructure. To remain competitive, service providers need to be able to deploy these systems, and the services they provide to end users, rapidly and cost-effectively.