Open Networking Is the Key to Future Connectivity

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From the days of slow video buffering, limited storage capacity, and signal coverage limitations to recording live TV with just the push of a button, who would have imagined from the times of waiting for days, even months for your favourite show to be telecasted on a single screen, you will now have on-demand content anywhere, anytime, and on any screen. We even have apps that make suggestions for us based on our streaming habits. Technology has transformed our lives massively. Wireless networks built in the past decades have got us here. But will they take us to the future? At the start of the 2000s, there were 740 million cell phone subscriptions worldwide. Now it has surpassed the 8 billion mark. Now, there are more cellphones in the world than people.

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Going forward, connected devices will reach almost 75 billion globally by 2025. These connected devices will generate approximately 79.4 zettabytes of data by 2025.

In the future, will the legacy networks be able to cope up with the demand posed by such humongous data?

Greater Efficiencies Will be Required for Networks of The Future

Future networks need to deliver only what we can imagine today. They must be scalable, automated, disaggregated, open and easy to manage, self-aware and self-healing. For instance, intent-based networking, built on the back of machine learning, software-defined networking and advanced automation, will have the potential to respond to a variety of network events and conditions.

Such networks must be conceptualised and built on a foundation of scalability and flexibility instead of compromise. Our current legacy networks are unable to adapt quickly enough to changing market conditions and customer needs. Legacy telco networks were proprietary, built from standards but not interoperable using black-box highly customised hardware. This proprietary approach drove costly “rip-and-replace” efforts to upgrade the network. For instance, CAPEX to switch even from 2G to 3G cost billions of dollars.