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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.

67 per cent of network managers see a digital strategy as important to reduce threat from competitors, yet 49 per cent say legacy technology is holding them back:

Communications key to self-driving success

The Internet of Things (IoT) represents a significant commercial opportunity for communication service providers (CSPs), able to supply and manage the underlying network connectivity needed to link tens of billions of sensors and devices over the next three years, a large proportion of which will reside in connected cars.

http://www.cbronline.com/news/enterprise-it/it-network/legacy-systems-continue-slow-digital-strategies/

Automation has long been identified as a fast track to reduced operational expenditure and improvements in business efficiency, but emerging technology has broadened that scope by a considerable margin.