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NaaS, Cloud, and the Future of 5G

By Jayne MillerJul 12, 2021

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Listeners know that we've covered middle mile and NaaS on this show. We've also touched on the various companies emerging around these issues.

Today, we're getting extra perspective from one of those companies.

Greg welcomes Dave Ward, PacketFabric's CEO, to discuss how these services are emerging in the enterprise network market.

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The discussion highlights the limitations of traditional carrier architectures and their inability to provide real-time, on-demand bandwidth and connectivity required by today's multi-cloud enterprise environments.

Dave Ward introduces Packet Fabric's platform as a solution, emphasizing its software-defined and cloud-native nature, which enables programmable bandwidth and network-as-a-service functionalities. The conversation also touches upon the role of 5G and edge computing in the evolving WAN landscape, suggesting a future where network capabilities are delivered through a programmable core powered by companies like Packet Fabric, often in partnership with traditional carriers.

What is NaaS?

Network as a Service (NaaS) is a cloud service model that allows organizations to consume networking infrastructure and services on demand, typically through a subscription-based or flexible consumption model.

Instead of owning, building, and maintaining their own physical network infrastructure, businesses can rent these services from a cloud provider.

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Greg Bryan

Greg Bryan

Greg is Senior Manager, Enterprise Research at TeleGeography. He's spent the last decade and a half at TeleGeography developing many of our pricing products and reports about enterprise networks. He is a frequent speaker at conferences about corporate wide area networks and enterprise telecom services. He also hosts our podcast, TeleGeography Explains the Internet.

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