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THE ADAPTIVE NETWORK
With network operators under increased pressure to maximise efficiency and
scale up to meet the ever-growing bandwidth demands, Virginie Hollebecque, Vice
President and Managing Director for Western Europe and Middle East at Ciena, tells
us how the autonomous network enables cost savings and increases in efficiency.
W
ith the imminent arrival of high-
speed 5G networks, the advent of
the Internet of Things, Artificial
Intelligence and Big Data analytics, network
operators in the Middle East are under
increased pressure to maximise efficiency
and scale up to meet the ever-growing
bandwidth demands.
The gathering momentum behind Software
Defined Networks (SDN), Network Function
Virtualisation (NFV) and individual Virtual
Network Functions (VNF) is helping mobile
network operators move out of rigid
proprietary environments. The resulting
automation of network-related processes
enables cost savings and increases in
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efficiency. The autonomous network is a
trend that has been building for some time.
They run with nominal human intervention
and can configure, monitor and maintain
themselves independently. This is ideal from
a cost-saving perspective but is less useful
from an innovation standpoint.
To enable innovation, networks must also
be adaptive. An adaptive network enables
service providers to evolve their current
infrastructure into a communications
loop that relays information from network
elements, instrumentation, users and
applications to a software layer for review,
analysis and action, rather than bogging
down the network itself.
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THE ADAPTIVE
NETWORK
MUST SCALE
FROM BOTH
CAPACITY AND
OPERATIONAL
PERSPECTIVES.
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