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Jacob Chacko, Regional Business Head –
MESA at HPE Aruba
average, in 2020, we will see a rise in
the use of integration and orchestration
tools to better leverage these
technologies for better threat detection
and accelerated response.
availability and quality of service that is
promised by technologies such as 5G.
• Wi Fi 6 will be the preferred on ramp
to 5G for the majority of enterprise
Edge applications.
Wireless SD-WAN
Wayfinding is just the beginning
• In 2020, location services will continue to
advance and serve up more meaningful,
personalised experiences to users, inviting
them to engage with their environment
like never before.
• No longer just about wayfinding,
location services will enable a new host
of services based on proximity and
preferences, delivering value to both
the provider and the user in the form
of customised offers for the user and
consumer insights for the provider. Entire distributed enterprises managed
from a single pane of glass
• With all layers of the distributed enterprise
managed from a single platform, complex
WAN management activities for all
branches and head-ends (data centres
or public clouds) will be greatly simplified
in 2020. IT teams will also be able to use
these same platforms to unify policy and
management, as well as networking and
security, for LAN traffic. Throughout the
LAN and WAN, a single pane of glass
will monitor and manage corporate
applications for all users, gateways,
access points, switches and other network
elements, including IoT devices.
If you build It, they will come
• Despite the fanfare, the introduction of
Wi-Fi 6 this year was met with cautious
optimism, with sceptics citing that the
increased bandwidth enabled by Wi-Fi 6,
though impressive, will not necessarily be
put to use very soon.
• As a result of continued Wi-Fi 6
innovation, Aruba predicts that 2020 will
usher in a new swath of Wi-Fi 6-enabed
services that will deliver the performance,
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Cloud connectivity becomes more
seamless and ubiquitous
• In 2020, organisations will increasingly
leverage cloud-based services from
branch offices to support mission-critical
applications while reducing exposure
to malicious users and other sources of
cyberattacks. Virtual gateways will better
integrate with network services provided
in public clouds to greatly simplify and
accelerate this trend. New SD-WAN
features will enable IT to better monitor
and manage applications from public
cloud infrastructures.
Public Internet continues to replace
MPLS at remote branches
• In 2020, organisations will increasingly
utilise public Internet services, which is
more widely available and costs up to
100x less than legacy MPLS, for SD-WAN
remote office connectivity. This trend
is being driven by next-gen SD-WAN
solutions which use ML-based analytical
tools to improve performance and
utilisation. Additionally, these solutions
automatically reroute traffic to minimise
network disruptions which further
increases confidence in public Internet
services as a primary transport vehicle.
In conclusion, it is hard to grasp the scale of
innovation with the dynamic nature of the
tech industry and the pace at which changes
are happening. The list of predictions
highlights some of the technology trends
that we at Aruba believe CIOs and IT
managers should take note of, but it is far
from exhaustive. It will be interesting to wait
and see the exciting innovations that 2020
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