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Longer-term, the research found there is a strong appetite among IT leaders for more innovative approaches to networking. This includes moving to the New IP, which is necessary to support the growing demands of mobile technology and cloud computing. Forty percent of respondents said they are planning to deploy Software-Defined Networking (SDN) within the next five years, with 30 percent of those likely to do so in the next three years. Thirty-four percent of organisations are looking to adopt Network Functions Virtualisation (NFV) within five years, with 27 percent keen to do so before 2018.

With the core network in place, Advent One has been moving ahead with its managed services for the cloud and has added new services such as virtual private networking, IP telephony, and virtual desktops to its offering.

The Sharjah Court was built in 2006, and since that time there has been a huge increase in the volume of transactions every day. With over 1000 people accessing legal services, 1045 notary service transactions, and 66 cases being filed per day, bottlenecks were beginning to develop in the network before the upgrade. MoJ’s system had experienced downtime and the applications running on it had become sluggish. Additionally, most of MoJ’s network traffic was being routed through a data center in Abu Dhabi which, from a networking point of view, was important to offload part of this traffic to the Sharjah site. All of this necessitated an overhaul of the data center.

"Allen Olivo is a Silicon Valley veteran and one of the preeminent brand and communications leaders in the tech industry. Brocade's continued ability to attract such high-caliber talent is an indication of the huge opportunity ahead of us as the industry transitions to the New IP. We are incredibly excited to add Allen to our team," said Christine Heckart, chief marketing officer.

To address these needs, Brocade has delivered software enhancements to the Brocade MLXe carrier-class routing platform, including support for OpenFlow 1.3 with significant features to help organizations deploy new application- and user-specific services in a secure manner. Delivered in unique Brocade MLXe programmable hardware, the Brocade OpenFlow 1.3 implementation provides fine-grained control for highly customized services at scale. The Brocade MLXe is the first carrier-class platform to support interworking between traditional routed networks and new software-defined networks, via Brocade Hybrid Port Mode.

"Networking must address the compounding forces of cloud computing, mobile and social, all of which have common characteristics of being on-demand and highly personalized," said Zeus Kerravala, Founder and Principal Analyst at ZK Research. "The realms of compute and storage have already adapted to these requirements. However the network remains as static and unresponsive as it was from its original design point in the old world of IP. The Brocade Vyatta Controller is one solution to help the network unlock innovation and adapt to the demand-driven world."

At Yahoo Japan, Brocade VDX Ethernet Fabric modular and fixed-port network switches replaced a legacy Spanning Tree Protocol-based network. The new automated network infrastructure connects hundreds of servers supporting thousands of nodes dedicated to supporting Hadoop analysts across the entire enterprise.

These capabilities will be essential for MNOs rolling out 4G/LTE technology across the billions of mobile devices deployed worldwide, led primarily by data networking requirements. This also establishes a firm technology foundation for MNOs as they begin the migration path to 5G technology in the coming years. The expected revenue for data traffic over mobile handsets will exceed $358 billion (USD) by 2018, representing the single largest source of revenue for MNOs over the next six years, according to industry research firm Analysys Mason.

"We've had a campus-wide WiFi network in place for the last five years, but many areas were speed-limited to approximately 20 percent of capacity due to bottlenecks caused by our previous switching infrastructure," said Adrian Burgess, Chevalier College's IT manager. "We wanted to increase capacity for students to be able to use their own mobile devices -- in addition to nearly 900 desktop and tablet devices the school operates for staff and students -- which meant we needed to upgrade our core and edge switches."

The federal government relies on one of the largest and most complex network environments in the world. Today, agencies are dealing with massive quantities of data on an infrastructure that is over 15 years old. Systems implemented before the full impact of the Internet, smart phones, and social media cannot support today's government needs. Network modernization, if implemented and managed effectively, can be a springboard for optimization of resources, smart decision-making, and technological innovation without adding cost to the taxpayer.