SDN and Openness

For enterprise networks to be compliant they must encompass two things: standards that define how networks are configured and ensuring those standards are enforced rigidly and uniformly across the network, whether it is physical, virtual, or cloud.However, today’s modern and exploded network infrastructure includes a multitude of edge devices such as switches, routers, firewalls, load balancers, and with the addition of cloud-based services it’s only getting more complex. Effective management of the network in a holistic manner is crucial for operational consistency. Regardless of your network size or type, constant configuration changes to infrastructure components based on business and technical requirements are inevitable and organizations need a modern approach to ensure configuration compliance across all network devices and services.

There is currently a surge in business investing in various types of analytics to solve their business challenges and achieve competitive advantage. The best analytic insight requires large amounts of data from multiple sources, which can then be feed through AI, ML, and analytics processes to garner new insights and make better decisions, as the amount of analytics storage highlighted in the chart below.

When it comes to cloud security, consistency is everything – your cloud controls should mimic your on-premise implementations, so you have complete consistency of security policy enforcement across environments. Cloud security breaches have not been the result of brilliant criminal masterminds. Rather, they have been the result of self-inflicted errors that are often caused by faulty migration and deployment practices – particularly when the right security personnel are excluded from the process.

Network operators today are planning for the networks of tomorrow. Despite the fact that 5G network standards are in development, there are practical steps service providers can take today to evolve network architectures to support the traffic and use cases anticipated by 5G standards, speed 5G roll out, and improve current network performance and efficiency. In this webinar, Casa Systems’ Head of Wireless Strategy, Leigh Chinitz, will explore 5G network and architecture requirements and the 5G use cases that are driving these network requirements to design the mobile network of the future.