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Discover how NetOps can help CSPs support agile IP service delivery | Nokia
How CSPs can use NetOps to speed up service delivery The move to the cloud and subsequent rise of webscale providers ushered in a new approach to compute and application operations, known as DevOps. The key foundation for DevOps is a cultural one that transforms the way IT developers, testers and operators collaborate during the development and delivery of IT changes.
Planned Outages? Where we’re going, we don’t need planned outages | Nokia
Recently the Nokia IP Routing team announced the Nokia 7730 SXR, a new family of service and aggregation routers for CSPs and mission-critical network builders that’s powered by a new silicon processor, the Nokia FPcx and running the SR Linux Network Operating System (NOS). In this follow-up blog, which borrows its title from a line from "Back to the Future", we'll focus on one of the key benefits that the new FPcx and SR Linux bring to IP routing, in-service upgrades.
Preparing for a Permanent Teleworking Environment
In the second and third quarters of 2020, we saw the acceleration and near mass adoption of teleworking in response to the global pandemic. Fortunately, the older remote-access virtual private network (VPN) technologies that were in place for road warriors held up well and generally provided a solid foundation. As the world enters the second wave in late 2020, however, enterprises are contemplating remote working as a permanent situation.
The CDN Era Requires New Network Visibility Standards
Content delivery networks (CDNs) aren’t just for websites and streaming media anymore. They are essential for many businesses. In fact, more than ninety percent of content traffic we see today comes from a CDN, be it commercial or purpose-built. It's essentially impossible to build a content service with a noteworthy user base without using a CDN. Social networks, streaming services, gaming services, and the like: Anything that conveys reach and heavy or performance-sensitive data requires a CDN.
IoT Drives Partnerships between NetOps and Operational Technology Groups
More than half of the enterprise network infrastructure teams that provide connectivity to Internet of Things (IoT) initiatives have formed close partnerships with their counterparts in the operational technology organization. As part of our biannual Network Management Megatrends 2020 report, Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) surveyed 350 IT organizations about the impact of IoT on the network team. Overall, 76% of companies have IoT devices connecting to their corporate networks.
Making your WAN Application-Aware
It's important to look back at the key networking advancements of the ‘teens, a decade where networking was dominated by the change to a Software-Defined Networking (SDN) architecture. SDN has ruled the enterprise network infrastructure migration in two domains: the early part of the decade, it was the virtualization of the network within the data center; in the latter, it has been the use of SDN to virtualize the enterprise WAN with SD-WAN.
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