ISE Magazine, October 2018
ISE ICT SOLUTIONS EDUCATION 28 Christopher Sigley Director of Network Planning Frontier Communications THE HUMAN NETWORK There are two ways I could interpret this data First Google and Facebook are newer companies so when they built their infrastructure they were able to automate due to not having legacy equipment regulation and technical debt This could be what enables them to have a higher revenue per employee However there is another way I could interpret this data The Terms and Condition Industry that can tailor advertisements to customers usage patterns is so much more lucrative than providing Internet service ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE As 5G must be placed very close to each other with large download capability there are two ways to manage the infrastructure Building a large infrastructure with little to no oversubscription or building a heavily oversubscribed network and manage the traffic This first option is heavily on capital expenditure and the second option is heavy on the expense dollars A I could help with the second option By having real time traffic classification and network optimization this could allow companies to reduce the capital expenditure without driving expense up This would also allow companies to more efficiently manage their traffic but also have higher network reliability As self healing and self learning A I is expanded the time to resolve an issue will greatly decrease as A I will be much faster than human intervention to resolve an issue Christopher creates network standards for ISP and OSP Engineering He is currently based out of Allen Texas Previously Christopher worked as Director of Video and Network Engineering He graduated from Tulane University with a Bachelors of Science in Electrical Engineering VIRTUALIZATION Cultural Transformation is the most import component to the migration to SDN NFV Even though this industry is fast paced in its evolution it has always been built around a hardware centric infrastructure Our organizations processes and mindsets are all built around a hardware concept As we move our organizational process from deployment of hardware to development of code how does the organization change and how is the reception That will be the crux of a successful implementation for a companys transformation to an SDN NFV based world n
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