Solving Wi-Fi Performance Problems with Cloud-Managed Services - Jan 28 2014

Network slicing deployment can start now with 4G and further evolve with the introduction of 5G systems. The ultimate goal is end-to-end network slices applied to a mix of use cases. However, getting the technology base in place for end-to-end slicing requires leveraging existing 4G capabilities, to build both deployment and business experiences and knowledge, while evolving into 5G.

Depending on the organization, as much as 95 percent of network changes are still performed manually by enterprise IT. At the same time, IT is also responsible for digitizing their business, so IT groups have become increasingly constrained by this manual burden. Additionally, enterprise networks are often made up of devices from dozens of vendors which have been deployed over many years creating what’s often called “technical debt” – complicating matters even more.

As digital transformation of business operations and our personal lives accelerates, Data Center capacity needs to keep up. At the same time pressure is mounting to grow capacity in an environmentally responsible way. Data Center operators must mobilize plans that include energy optimization, reductions of waste, restrictions on water usage and minimized greenhouse gas emissions. A holistic plan will cover the lifecycle from Data Center design, construction and operation. We will discuss how companies can respond to the drivers of sustainability with a holistic environmental Data Center sustainability strategy including metrics to use, ways to measure, planning and designing software, sustainable hardware solutions and the portfolio of sustainability services available.

Watch F5 senior leaders and Heavy Reading Research Director Jim Hodges discuss the evolution to cloud-native network functions (CNFs) during this on-demand webinar.CNFs address multiple pain points to reduce CapEX and OpEX costs and unify cloud infrastructure to support both Telco and IT workloads. The webinar highlights two key use cases for Gi LAN consolidation for VNFs and CNFs, and 5G Core Kubernetes security.