The shift to remote working and our increasing reliance on the cloud and digital services have fueled significant changes in the way enterprises demand connectivity and consume bandwidth. More businesses across a variety of sectors require high-speed, always-on connectivity for a greater range of services – everything from video conferencing and HD video streaming, to cloud-hosted business applications, augmented reality and industrial automation.
Cloud and virtualization
To address our digital-everything world, communications service providers (CSPs) are investing in a variety of software-centric technologies, including very dynamic and reconfigurable transport (SDN), overlays (SD-WAN), RAN (5G cloud RAN) and cloud-native NFV.