siliconindia | | October 20198IN MY OpinionTRENDS IN NETWORKINGBy Vijay Bollapragada, CTO, CX APJC, Ciscoetworking started-out as a collection of computers sending commands to one other and is foundational for connecting people, enterpris-es, mobile networks, cloud and IoT. Networks typically operate behind the scenes and people general-ly don't think about them unless some-thing stops working. We are in the midst of unprecedented change that is happening at a pace that has not been encountered in our history. Imagine a world without the Internet, social media or mobile phones, we created more data in the last two years than the previous 5000 years of human history. The year 2017 saw more devices connect-ed to each other than the entire population of the world and this number is expected to hit 20 billion devices by year 2020. These technologies have impacted our lives and transformed our society both socially and economically. None of this would have happened without the Network! In this article I am attempting to highlight trends in networking technology that will help acceler-ate the digital transformation by making networks easier to man-age, enabling more bandwidth, pro-vide better security and a better end-user experience. IoT: The term Internet of Things (IoT) was coined in 1999 and refers to connection of devic-es to a public or private Internet, in 2018, the number of IoT devices has exceeded the number of people on the planet to about approximately seven billion devices. This number is expected to grow to 20 billion by 2020 and 22 billion by 2025. There are multiple technologies that connect these devices which are: Vijay is passionate about bringing Technology vision and Business expertise to achieve corporate goals and has 25+ years of experience in the IT industryIN MY OPINIONNVijay Bollapragada, CTO
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