The year 2013 will be exciting for network administrators.
Task is to safely implement many new technologies into the company networks and
to deal also with new themes. What network technologies have long term - over
the next five years - the largest development potential.
Arne Ohlsen, Blue
Coat: "A stable and secure network is already Commodity Nevertheless,
the demands on the performance and security of the network, especially if the
acceptance of applications from cloud increases so Internet infrastructures are
more and more. Part of a corporate network that already has way more no clearly
definable boundaries.
Therefore, in our view, wins the asymmetric WAN optimization
in importance: the acceleration in the corporate data center. This is the set
screw on the corporate IT can rotate in order to speed up the delivery of
content from the Internet or from SaaS applications. "
Uli Brox, Brocade:
" Ethernet Fabrics and concomitantly, virtualization services are used
more and more by customers because they simplify network administration
enormously too easy expansion or scalability of the network by self-configuring
components in both the data center and in Campus networks lead to a rethinking
of many network operators worth it in any case, at an early stage to deal with
this issue.”
Tarik Erdemir,
D-Link: "Server virtualization in Germany is likely to slow heading
into a veritable rate of 60 percent, and by 2014 an increase is forecast at 75
percent of this increase, combined with the increasing capacity of server
systems, bringing the much-discussed jump to 40 GbE / 100 GbE in the data
center network in the budget. This step is inevitable, because the traffic
moving mainly between the servers (East-West, OW) and only the result to the
client (South-North, SN) is delivered. Currently this ratio is 75 percent / 25
percent (OW / SN).
The current hype around Software-Defined Networks (SDN) will
first complete the current trends Data Center Bridging (DCB) and switching
fabric in the data center, and later spread in the campus. The advantages in
the management and automation of networks with flexibility make SDN equally
attractive for data center and also for the campus. This development fits in
very well with the customer requirements in terms of higher efficiency through
industrialization of IT.
The Campus LAN will be the effects of virtual desktops
(VDI), desktop video applications and the increasing mobility
"result" and insert 10 Gigabit Ethernet in Access. Especially the
increase of mobile devices is the use of new wireless standard 802.11ac (also
called Gigabit WLAN) and requires new network concepts. Besides the quick
dissipation of the resulting mobile data on 10 GbE access switches number and
variety of mobile devices will be a challenge. A large number of users will
expect the best wireless connectivity on any device. This will come in the top
500 as well as to authorities, hospitals and hotels. From a security
perspective, here's a new use (equipment, profiles, user-based) is required -
without the "user experience" limit. In the future, more solutions
with a good value for money, offering attractive quality and reliability, make
the race. "
Olaf Hagemann,
Extreme Networks: "It is quite clear that the bandwidths continue to
increase 10GbE is now the default network connections. You do not need crystal
ball to predict that 100 GbE in core 2014 is increasingly prevail Terabit
Ethernet is though... still some way off, but as a synonym for the next stage
after 100 GbE already ubiquitous. A question will be the extent to SDN will
prevail in width. Here is still a lot of marketing in the game. However, there
are products without the SDN option and support for protocols like OpenFlow and
OpenStack have difficulty establishing them in the market. Extremes will
provide this option in any case for the customers. "
Mark Harden, F5:
"Networks need to be controlled from a cost point, as well but also be
agile in order to respond quickly and cost to the business claims to safety
requirements must be adhered to, what is in view of the flexible access of
employees, customers, partners and suppliers to corporate resources plays an
important role. In this way, each terminal can be used. This leads to improved
productivity, growth and customer satisfaction. "
Frank Pieper,
Juniper: "SDN makes for a great change in the networking industry for
Juniper, we believe that the impact of SDN are much stronger than expected by
many previously Theme networking is redefined, and we will have new winners
and.. losers in the market watch thank SDN, the networking industry that offer
extend to their customers around two critical services providers now have the
opportunity innovations to deliver faster, first, at the same time customers
can integrate them. Secondly, the cost of running a network is drastically
reduced. "
Ralf Koenzen, LANCOM:
"Generally speaking, particularly in our key focus areas of safety,
availability and bandwidth, we expect a lot of development potential. Thus,
vectoring for ADSL connections - if this trend continues and is introduced - at
low prices, much more bandwidth for many connections offer. Besides, the
increasing availability of fiber connectivity is significantly more performance
routers require, the ever-improving LTE network coverage opens the market for
more, equipped with additional features such as Wi-Fi "All-in-one"
devices. Moreover, new wireless internet ensure standards and a great interest
of mobile operators in the so-called "LTE offloading" (shift traffic
away from the cellular network) for a further proliferation of wireless
networks with seamless for the user changes the data traffic. "
Jรถrg Delete, Netgear:
"In the coming years, the penetration of 10 Gigabit technologies will play
a major role in the networks of small and medium enterprises Productivity and
competitiveness today together directly with the network infrastructure used,
which in turn demands on network security increased and administration of the
technologies used networking products must also be available at a adapted to
the SME Award. Thus, for example, 10-GBASE-T copper switches and affordable
storage systems in focus. Today's situation is such that it are dozens of
solutions that provide enterprise functionality, but mostly for medium-sized
companies are too expensive or too complex to manage, because the products were
designed primarily for enterprise networks and are then scaled for the middle
class., the need to change the network vendor, and that is why it has taken on
the task Netgear to develop products that are tailored in terms of technology
and price to meet the requirements of SMEs." (Hal)
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