Silver Peak was acquired by Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) and is now part of its Aruba business. iStock
Time flies. It seems like it wasn’t that long ago that we experienced a major transformation of the enterprise access network.
Wi-Fi networks were introduced back in 1997 (only 24 years ago), but the introduction of the iPhone in 2007, followed by tablets in 2010, drove an inflection point. More workers and more devices connected over the air instead of jacking into Ethernet. Access networks shifted from primarily wired to primarily wireless. People were untethered, making it possible to work from anywhere, long before the pandemic made working from home the new norm.