Assessing the benefits of Network-as-a-Service (NaaS), through an enterprise lens
NaaS typically includes integrated hardware, software and licenses delivered in a subscription-based offering. Credit: Dreamstime
The day is coming when enterprise IT professionals will be able to order network infrastructure components from a menu of options, have them designed to fit their business needs, and have the whole thing delivered and running in perhaps hours.
The concept is called Network-as-a-Service (NaaS), and it has been around in a number of different forms for a few years, mostly in the service provider arena.
For enterprises, the as-a-service concept took hold as companies started to embrace cloud computing and its model of consumption-based capacity. In the infrastructure space, for example, more than 75 per cent of infrastructure in edge locations and up to 50 per cent of data centre infrastructure will be consumed in the as-a-service model by 2024, according to
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