Testing the 5G architecture: challenges and lessons learned

SD-WAN is emerging as a preferred platform for accessing networking and security services using a cloud deployment model. The market is attractive to service providers because of the potential to deliver value-added services that integrate networking, applications visibility, cloud app acceleration, and network security functions. This webinar will take a look at the approaches to deploying SD-WAN to enterprise customers.

With the progression of wireless communication networks from 4G to 5G, mobile networking is unlocking enormous benefits for businesses and consumers alike. Applications and business opportunities will soon become available that were previously beyond imagination. As the road to 5G and beyond presents significant challenges for technology providers, those who can offer timely solutions with the highest reliability stand to gain tremendous benefit and increase market share. This presentation showcases the past, present and future of mobile networking, and how the convergence of 5G, edge computing and artificial intelligence machine learning will change the industry landscape. Modeling and simulation will drive this revolution—particularly in combining the physics of electromagnetics, optical, thermal, mechanical, and materials. Additionally, digital twins for modeling wireless devices within virtualized, realistic, city-sized environments will reduce the need for costly prototypes and exploratory testing in physical installations.

Enterprise network infrastructure and operation needs to keep pace with business shifts and demand. An agile business needs an agile network operated to become a foundation for innovation. That means removing complexity, simplifying operations and embracing automation to provide a dynamic and responsive software-defined infrastructure.

Data Center networking is at an inflection point, where software defined is taking over hardware defined. Vendor churn, speed upgrades to 100 Gbps, hyper-converged infrastructures, micro-segmentation, multi-cloud hosting sites, and Ethernet based storage systems, coupled with automation and continuous operations are driving customers to think and design their networks differently. This webinar will walk you through networks of the past, many of the common pitfalls of these networks, and how the rapidly evolving software defined data center networking market, where your switching hardware becomes an open platform for software innovations, drives business value.