US telco AT&T identified the white box as the future of network design last year and has since committed to installing over 60,000 of them in its 5G mobile network towers and small cells over the next few years.
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David Millar, services director at Axians UK.
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In today’s world of dynamic corporate networks and ever-developing security threats, traditional network security can be imagined as an ancient castle. In this modern connected world, those ancient structures are crumbling.
David Hughes is chief executive officer at Silver Peak, the broadband and hybrid wide area network (WAN) company that has done much to foster wider adoption of software defined wide area network (SD-WAN) technology in enterprise branch offices over the past couple of years.
Advanced persistent threats and other forms of covert malware can be detected by better network monitoring.
It's always important to take analyst forecasts with a pinch of salt. Predicting the future is difficult at the best of times (see our article on predictions in ITProportal) and a single unexpected geo-political event (Brexit anyone?) can scupper the most meticulously prepared financial projection overnight.