5.12: The Changing Network Environment Network Trends
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- Ly-Huong T. Pham, Tejal Desai-Naik, Laurie Hammond, & Wael Abdeljabbar
- ASCCC Open Educational Resources Initiative (OERI)
New Trends
As new technologies and end-user devices come to market, businesses and purchasers must keep on acclimating to this ever-evolving condition. The job of the network is changing to empower the connections between individuals, devices, and data. There are a few new networking trends that will impact organizations and purchasers. A portion of the top trends include:
- Bring Your Own Device (BYOD)
- Video communications
- Online collaboration
- Cloud computing
Bring Your Own Device
The idea of any device, to any content, in any way, is a significant worldwide trend that requires huge changes to the manner in which devices are utilized. This trend is known as Bring Your Own Device (BYOD).
BYOD is about end users having the opportunity to utilize individual tools in order to get to data and convey over a business or campus network. With the development of customer devices and the related drop in cost, representatives and students can be relied upon to have probably the most progressive computing and networking tools for individual use. These individual tools can be laptops, e-books, tablets, cell phones, and tablets. These can be devices bought by the organization or school, bought by the individual, or both.
BYOD implies any device, with any possession, utilized anyplace. For instance, previously, a student who expected to get access to the campus network or the Internet needed to utilize one of the school's PCs. These devices were commonly constrained and seen as instruments just for work done in the study hall or in the library. Expanded availability through portable and remote access to the campus network gives students a lot of adaptability and opens doors of learning for the student.
Online Collaboration
People want to connect with the network, for access to data applications, in addition to team up with each other.
Collaboration is characterized as "the demonstration of working with another or others on a joint venture." Collaboration tools, give representatives, students, instructors, clients, and accomplices an approach to quickly interface, connect, and accomplish their targets.
For businesses, collaboration is a basic and vital need that associations are utilizing to sustain their competition. Collaboration is additionally a need in training. Students need to work together to help each other in learning, to create group abilities utilized in the workplace, and to cooperate on group based projects.
Video Communication
Another trend in networking that is basic to the correspondence and joint effort exertion is video. Video is being utilized for interchanges, cooperation, and amusement. Video calls can be made to and from anyplace with an Internet connection.
Video conferencing is an incredible asset for speaking with others from a distance, both locally and worldwide. Video is turning into a basic necessity for successful joint effort as associations stretch out across geographic and social limits.
Cloud Computing
Cloud computing is another worldwide trend changing how we access and store information. Cloud computing permits us to store individual files, even backup our whole hard disk drive on servers over the Internet. Applications, for example, word processing, and photograph editing, can be accessed utilizing the Cloud.
When it comes to businesses, cloud computing expands IT's capabilities without requiring interest in new infrastructure, preparing new faculty, or permitting new software. These services are accessible on request and conveyed economically to any device on the planet without trading off security or capacity.
There are four essential Clouds: Public Clouds, Private Clouds, Hybrid Clouds, and Custom Clouds. Snap each Cloud to find out additional.
Cloud computing is conceivable because of data centers. A data center is an office used to house PC frameworks and related parts. A data center can consume one room of a building, at least one story, or the whole thing. Data centers are commonly over the top expensive to manufacture and keep up. Therefore, just huge associations utilize secretly fabricated data centers to house their information and offer users assistance. Smaller associations that can't afford to keep up their own private data center can lessen the general expense of ownership by renting server and capacity services from a bigger data center association in the Cloud.