5G holds promise to further society’s digital transformation, delivering solutions and applications for consumers and enterprises alike, and connecting the un-connected and under-served. 

While phase-1 of the 5G buildout in large-market countries has largely been completed, the future will reveal how far 5G technologies can take us to real digital transformation.

Building on the first two episodes of the Design Your Networks for the Internet for the Future podcast, IDG host Barbara Call and guest Tom Kennedy, Director of Product Management at Cisco, explore how 5G fits into the Internet for the Future and answer such questions as, do companies run the risk of making investments that will quickly be outdated?

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Innovative technologies are key to the network of the future – including pluggable optics. In fact, your investment in pluggable optics is critical to the customer experience you deliver and your company’s brand.

Building on the first episode of the Design Your Networks for the Internet for the Future podcast, IDG host Barbara Call and guest Pat Chou, Product Manager at Cisco, explore the growing importance of pluggable optics.

“Pluggable optics are these little metal modules that you need to connect switches, routers, and service together,” says Chou. “They’re basically optical transceivers which convert high-speed electrical signals into optical signals and vice versa, so we can use fiber optics cables for these connections.”

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Today’s networks are siloed and complex, a product of overlaying new technologies on top of old. But new technologies are emerging to help IT leaders and network administrators resolve these issues.

In this first episode of the Design Your Networks for the Internet for the Future podcast, IDG host Barbara Call and guest Gurudatt Shenoy, Sr. Director, Product Management, at Cisco explore why “everything you know about the Internet is going to change.”

“Let’s start by looking at the Internet itself and what’s happening,” Shenoy says. “First, raw bandwidth consumption continues to grow on unabated. Now think about what’s coming with 5G and its implications. 5G, as we know, is about more than just higher bandwidth for your cell phone. 5G unlocks fundamentally new enterprise use cases:  industrial IoT, automotive IoT, smart utility networks, etc.”

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