AE Natarajan

Essentially is the way you build networks to interconnect.

And there are different parts of the network.

There are core networks which interconnect globally.

There are edge networks.

There is access networks where you bring in customers.

There's aggregation networks that you have.

And then there is networks in the customer premise.

There is networks in the data center.

So architectures vary with each one of those things.

Some of them have similar architectures.

Most of these networks are built for scale, connectivity, growth, and ability to adapt to new things that come about.

It traces back in history, if you really want to go through it, towards the late 90s, early 2000s, we called it the internet boom.

And the whole idea behind that internet boom was to try and get everybody online.

It's not just people, it's things, people, IoT, all of those devices.

And then we embarked into a different era in networking, which was cloud.

Previously, we used to have client server based applications.

We moved over to cloud where the applications actually got pushed into a cloud because the applications demanded dynamic compute and growth.

And cloud was an easy way to actually push that over to the cloud so that your applications can actually grow to the dynamic demands and growth.

And then we said that was not enough.

Not just you move the applications around in the network and globally, I'm going to move the users around.