To grow and remain competitive, businesses must consider lucrative opportunities like 5G, business services, cloud, edge compute, and moving fiber deeper. To do this, businesses must shift toward a more scalable, less operationally complex network from access to metro—one that lays the foundation for the Adaptive Network™. This is an exciting time to master routing and switching skills.
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