Ciena, a US-based network solutions company, has revolutionised networking with Adaptive Networking. If autonomous networking (network that runs independently, without human intervention) wasn’t enough, Adaptive Networking makes networks more dynamic & adaptable to changing business needs & markets.
The Adaptive Network comprises 3 important aspects: Programmable Infrastructure, Analytics & Intelligence & Software control & Automation
The changing bandwidth demands require a highly agile, automated, flexible & programmable infrastructure. Interpretation of real-time data to make decisions whether be it routing traffic to a link that is down or investigating a broken link is one of the major benefits of a programmable infrastructure. It also helps in optimizing performances by giving real insights by feeding real-time data to analytics.
That brings us to analytics & intelligence. The capabilities of networks to pull big data and small data today are immense. Any sort of predictive or adaptive action can be managed by Adaptive Network promptly and accurately. Right from big data needs like adjusting to traffic patterns and identifying vulnerable parts of the network to small data needs like immediate customer help or queries, Adaptive Network is flexible and quick to address changes.
Human error is the main cause of network failures and so automation, today, has become inevitable. With new services & software-defined networking, multi-domain orchestration will only help. Networks built on single vendor also can suffice but such networks are rare; mostly multiple APIs are used to move data to and fro.
Adaptive Network is the turning point in the world of networks and clearly foresees the need for data & its expansive transmission across the world. It promises operational & service agility.
