Kedington MD, Matt Porter gives his predictions for 2015.
As many previously postponed network upgrade projects come back on stream, 2015 will see the demand for high level technical services in the networking sector continue to grow.
Wireless Demand Growth: The rate of adoption of wireless will increase significantly. The growth in the number of wireless clients accessing Wi-Fi networks will force upgrades in many first generation wireless networks. For an increasing number of organisations, we see Wi-Fi being viewed as a strategic part of the network when planning network upgrades and not just a “nice to have” add on.
We believe that high speed Wi-Fi (Gigabit 802.11ac) will become the dominant base technology for new Wi-Fi deployments.
Performance: Openflow (SDN) will not be the decisive factor in choosing network infrastructure in 2015 but it will be appearing as a requirement in request for proposals especially in data centre RFP’s. For performance, we think 40Gbit speeds will increase significantly in data centre projects and large enterprise backbones.
Mobility: Catering for mobility of users and the associated network/computer security requirements will continue to extend into more medium sized organisations in 2015.
Growth of Intelligent Buildings: Although our industry has talking about the ‘Intelligent Building’ for over 20 years, it is now possible and recent innovations have enabled us to link systems like never before, yielding a great ‘carbon reduction story’ and a better working environment. We expect the next generation of building projects from 2015 to heavily embrace this new model, enabling a win-win for all involved, owner and occupier.
