LESS HARDWARE CENTRIC: The New IP has virtualised and software-based network services running on ordinary hardware.
Legacy networks that were designed for an era of ‘best effort’ services and non-mission critical applications, have remained unchanged for the past 20 years and have significant limitations.
They have slowed-down efforts to meet ever-growing social business, cloud, mobile and big data compute requirements, where virtualisation is the norm and agility is the currency of the day.
