Market sophistication is growing as technology progress has made these tasks simple and well understand. Customers are implementing complexity in the data centre, WAN and campus and the demand for progress in networking is high.

The concept of building “network services” is changing over the next ten years.

  • Ten years ago a network service was “connecting things together”
  • Today network services are defined by “speed, QOS, filtering, resiliency & redundancy”.

Networking Services include IP addressing, Domain Name System (DNS), primary domain email service, Internet access, web content filtering, security products such as firewalls, VPN termination and intrusion prevention systems (IPS), and the necessary tools and staff to support these services.