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Network Design and Management Trends
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Every year consistently exhibits its extraordinary advancements in the network design and management sector that have enables the field make incredible walks in computerized arrange management transformation. A review of the ongoing advancements inside the most recent three years is an unmistakable sign that we remain at the edge of some major networking technology moves that will clear route for the molding of future networking environment in 2018 and beyond. To understand our current position in term of innovativeness in different areas of network design and management, I will review the trends in wireless, virtualization and software defined networking in the year 2016, 2017 and the current year.
Wireless
Among the greatest beneficiaries of technological advancement in field is the wireless method of data transmission. This has moved convenience of connectivity to to turning into a center prerequisite in organisations to suit the present technological patterns and the foreseen future needs. Real advancements in wireless connections have been founded on the kind of uses bound to run on the network with the most widely recognized being emails and other document exchange applications for authoritative correspondence.
In the year 2016, advancements was changed to represent new technology in organization correspondence and management. Which means the voice over internet protocol to deal with wireless voice and video calls that require higher transfer speed to guarantee quality of records sent isn’t degraded. This inactivity touchy are bolstered by network designed with high limit, dependability and speed.
In the year 2017, need for growth in the wireless network design raised which lead to development of wireless design with double number of access points as 802.11 b/g standards to exploit 5GHz wireless frequencies. The 802.11b/g led to a significant effect in the performance in the wireless network. Nevertheless, advancement will be produced under the idea
Another advancement in the year 2017 was Progressions of LAN technology that presented adverse security challenges of unauthorized access that can compromise the integrity and validity of organizational data. Wireless threats can be exploited from any point of accessibility considering the adoption of bring your own device strategy that can result in creation of rogue access points. Pervasive RF monitoring of the wireless LAN networks can facilitate the management of threats and risks by reporting or trying to prevent unauthorized access to network resources.
Currently in 2018, wireless network have presented a higher rate of growth in the entire technological domain. The wireless internet has been a huge global influx of people that is even more projected to rise further to more extreme number compared to the 3.5 billion people using the wireless internet today in the near future. Currently there is a broad spectrum of wireless technologies application that have stemmed its progression. Today there are several billion number of satellites in the space to beam signal to the receivers that operates within the infrared.
All together for the systems administration plan and administration fields to profit by remote framework take note of that advancements in remote systems can’t be dealt with autonomously as an island. Therefore, all the mechanical developments inclines in remote are very subject to the reinforcements of security foundations, LAN and WAN structures generally the advancements could be an exertion in uselessness.
Virtualization
Network design is one of the segments that have benefited from virtualization as it underpins all level business management operations. Small, medium and large sized organizations are little by little adopting virtualization in combination of other hybrid systems in ensuring operation cost reduction, management of network operation and business continuity (Albert, 2017). There is an extensive variety of advancements in virtualization ranging from virtualization monitoring to internal and external storage of resources to facilitate service delivery and different provisions for applications. There has been an increased preference of cloud based facilitating in comparison to physical accessibility of resources locally.
The serverless computing has made cloud to be accessible. The serveless are basically cloud-based scripting engine that enable easy access to various cloud-based services. To make serverless function one has to define a trigger to activate the serverless script which could be a file uploaded to the Amazon web services simple storage services among others. The triggers make servless more powerful than a batch of file for the cloud.
New hypervisors implemented on (x36) processors have expanded the usage of virtualization to small enterprise networks unlike in the past whereby virtualization was limited to mainframes that were expensive. The primary point of consideration is not in the cost but rather on migration of services to virtualization to decrease the dependency on Physical resources. The idea of green computing is being promoted by innovations like virtualization through reduced power consumptions as the amount of hardware implemented in virtualization is low. On the same idea, virtualization decreases the costs of maintenance due to low availability of devices for every installation of virtual machine. At the same time the costs of scaling are bound to decrease whereas the resource requirements of virtualization are low in terms of technicians required to troubleshoot issues in devices.
The storage virtualization through (VSANs) is gaining popularity as it offers security, scalability, ease of use and flexibility much in the same way as server virtualization. In addition to savings on investment costs it reduces the level of hardware redundancy
Software Defined Networking (SDN)
Software defined network has emerged as a promising network architecture in the past three years. SDN includes various technologies designed to make the network greater agile and versatile in assist of server virtualization and contemporary information centers storage infrastructure. The SDN architecture is a cost effective, dynamic, adaptable and manageable thereby making it the suitable solution to the dynamic nature of the networking applications with at least a higher bandwidths.
Some of the general trends include the software-defined WAN where WAN operations are improved. A couple of SDN products based on WAN were common in the past year as they were made to make management less complicated and more cost efficient. Network automation is
another trend that requires a great shift in networking thinking. This means that organizations
have to move carefully and cautiously on the automation regardless of the years’ experience in
virtualization of the computer resources (Morreale & Anderson, 2016).
Open networking and the SDN are in this together as they are driven by the demand for
more efficiency and flexibility. Thus this has led to traditional networking equipment’s using the
architectural features to make it a top-notch enterprise. This trend has been greatly adapted by
social networks such as Facebook where it provides the flexibility and scalability needed for
functioning. The technological improvements in software defined networking has allowed for diverse benefits to network designs and management i.e. automated load balancing, bandwidth provisioning, scalability of network resources in accordance with the data and applications requirements.
Network computing and storage are the areas that have been the biggest beneficiaries of virtualization and introduction of SDN has made the management of all the network resources easier. SDN has the potential of revolutionizing data centers through provisions of a centralized control of the virtualized networks. Software defined networking is critical in cases of carrier service providers as it provides on demand bandwidth that allows for carrier links to request for additional bandwidth in cases where it is required besides bandwidth calendaring and WAN optimization. For virtualized networks and cloud based centers, SDN provides higher turn around periods for the development of a segregated network. Use of software defined networking policies allows for network monitoring and access control experiences in managing enterprise networks.
Conclusion
With much focus in digitalization, we anticipate further progression in this field of network design and management. However, the advancements place unknown challenges especially with computer security which call for research to design network less susceptible to unauthorized access to curb and prevent the current trending cyber security challenge and at the same time deliver satisfactory technological services to the general public.
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