Networking in 2017 encompassed far, far more technology than simply the pipes used to hold data as it moves from one location to another. It always has. In 2018, networking will evolve even more into software-controlled, artificial intelligence-fortified systems that will be thinking far ahead of humans as data moves through its veins.
Security is always a major factor here, but we’ll not focus on that aspect of networking in this article. We’ll have separate security prediction stories coming shortly here on eWEEK.
