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A Self-Optimizing Fabric for the 5G era

As the industry prepares for the rapid and wide-scale deployment of 5G, Ciena’s Kaniz Mahdi outlines an initiative with ENCQOR focused on developing a self-optimizing fabric for the omni-connected systems enabled by 5G.

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Move over technology, it’s all about customer experience

At last week’s SDN & NFV World Congress, the event that ushered in SDN and NFV technologies back in 2012, it was acknowledged that software control and virtualization have matured to the point that they are now considered table stakes in today’s world of hyper-scale computing and networking.

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