This year was exciting for the telecommunications industry, but 2018 will be unlike any other. As service providers grapple with forces the pace of innovation, the network is moving expeditiously to becoming automated and intelligent enough to make decisions on its own; an increasingly important requirement to handle ever evolving bandwidth demands. In the new year, the fundamental drivers for more bandwidth – continued growth in Internet of Things (IoT), mobility and other high-bandwidth services – will remain strong.
Here are three areas we predict to be prevalent in our industry as the autonomous, programmable network takes root in 2018:
