Enterprise networks are taking a swing and reshaping towards more advanced and secure framework. Today we are seeing advanced and scalable design practices in industry to make networks autonomous and elastic to cater the requirements of globalization and IFEA (internet for everyone). Automation becomes the part of every digital business and around the world businesses are demanding this digital transformation. With so many things around us like cloud, IOT, Ai, wireless & mobility, web apps and cyber security, the spectrum of internet and related technologies becomes immense. And with this much complexity, human capability to manage today’s infrastructures also become difficult and therefore we are experiencing hardship in finding skilled techies.

A new wave which we are seeing in today’s networks is pretty much new to a lot of business owners. According to a report of 2020 published by Cisco, some key figures are as below.

• 700 Million Hosting containers will be appear by 2021
• 50% of workload will be set up outside of enterprise DC by 2021
• Industrial IOT load of devices will touch 14B figure by 2022
• Mobile traffic will also experience a huge growth by 42% in upcoming 2 years
• With all these incredible figures, cyber security threats also going to increase by 53%

 

• We should follow some guidelines and strategies to overcome these advance complications. As a network engineer you should make strategies and plans to execute errors. A step-by-step structural chart is a good example to build up execution plans and templates for each of your network domain area for your team so in occurrence of a bad situation or incident, one must know what to do which eventually turn up into a successful approach.
• Upgradation is also another key factor which we should keep in mind while designing. You cannot expect an obsolete/EOL/EOS product to deliver what your business actually need.
• With this evolving cycle of transformation, your technical team must have those management and technical skillset which give them a confidence boost while handling advanced network architectures.

 

From autonomous to controller based networks, each one has its own ups and downs. But as in today’s intent based networks, Ai based software controller stationed networks are gaining attention. Cisco Predicts that by 2025, organizations will shift towards intent based networks in almost every networking domain. Its impact is already showing us some great discoveries in result of SDN and SD-WAN. Our data centers become much more intelligent following new protocols and structures like overlay/underlay network.  With this intelligent software based automation, networks will work in a very systematic way by providing us complete visibility on all layers, ease of escalation and optimization. These advantages will obviously assist us in a very powerful way to understand better and will open more ways to expand our wings.