A smarter way for electronic components to send and receive data, one that catches up with all the advances that have been made in cloud computing. "More of the intelligence moves to the software layer, equipment becomes programmable, and network services get virtualized, leading to an ecosystem of networking platforms and applications that is likely to replace the legacy world of insular, vertically integrated, and manually configurable equipment," Goldman's Simona K. Jankowski and Kent Schofield write.
Source: Goldman Sachs