Extreme Networks will set aside almost its entire R&D budget for research into software and applications for artificial intelligence (AI). In particular, the network specialist wants to use this software and applications to transform his three portfolio pillars towards a self-healing and self-driving network.
The announcement that the network supplier is going to reserve a large part of its R&D budget for software, among other things, is not really surprising. CEO Ed Meyercord recently told Techzine that this 95 percent is in software development and only 5 percent in hardware.
Development of self-driving networks
The reason for the current announcement is that Extreme Networks, like its many competitors, wants to offer end users more flexible, self-adaptive or intent driven highly secure network environments. In short, automation will play an even more important role in the strategy of the network supplier, it seems.
Therefore, it is now announced that the software and artificial intelligence solutions that are being deployed from this allocated budget will be rolled out within the entire portfolio of the three pillars SmartOmniEdge, Automated Campus and Agile Datacenter.
Features of software to be developed
The software and AI solutions to be developed must include a number of specific features. For example, the solutions will become part of an open ecosystem so that end users will be able to build the best architecture and applications that meet their specific requirements. In addition, cross-domain and closed-loop automation should enable them to optimize their network performance from endpoints to application servers.
Furthermore, a software-driven infrastructure, optimized with machine learning and artificial intelligence, will soon have to help end users to solve the demand for bandwidth and improve the user experience.
With various solutions for insights and analytics, end users will soon be able to monitor the behaviour of applications, end users and even the various IoT devices within their networks in real time. It also allows them to discover deviant behaviour and to solve it automatically, without the intervention of people. The network specialist emphasizes that all these specific components will soon be equipped with the latest security applications as standard.
Cooperation in the field of open source
Finally, Extreme Networks will also invest more in research and development centres around the world and will actively participate in various open source projects for standards for SDN implementations, such as the activities of the Open Networking Foundation around the Stratum project.
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