Like the whole of the IT business, the networking sector saw its share of continuous evolution in 2017.
For example, last year witnessed the first shipments of 400G technologies into the wide-area network via solutions from AT&T and Vodafone New Zealand; the increased deployment of software-defined networking; and an early example of augmented reality go viral with Pokémon Go. New virtual reality applications came into use that reshape the way we interact with the world around us.
