{"id":49889,"date":"2022-12-26T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-26T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.networkworld.com\/article\/3684176\/looking-ahead-to-the-network-technologies-of-2023.html#tk.rss_security"},"modified":"2022-12-26T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-12-26T11:00:00","slug":"looking-ahead-to-the-network-technologies-of-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/looking-ahead-to-the-network-technologies-of-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking ahead to the network technologies of 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"
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What\u2019s the single most important thing that enterprises should know about networking in 2023? Forget all that speeds-and-feeds crap you hear from vendors. The answer is that networking is now, and forever, linked to business applications, and those applications are linked now to the way that we use the Internet and the cloud. We\u2019re changing how we distribute and deliver business value via networking, and so network technology will inevitably change too, and this is a good time to look at what to expect.<\/p>\n

Growth in Internet dependence<\/h2>\n

First, the Internet is going to get a lot better because it\u2019s going to get a lot more important. It\u2019s not just that the top-end capacities offered will be raised, in many cases above 2 Gbps. Every day, literally, people do more online, and get more interactive, dynamic, interesting, websites to visit and content to consume. Internet availability has been quietly increasing, and in 2023 there will be a significant forward leap there, in large part because people who rely on something get really upset when it\u2019s not working.<\/p>\n

With \u201cgoodness\u201d will come \u201crichness.\u201d<\/p>\n

Adobe, which produces software that enriches the user experience online, had a great quarter in large part because the Internet is more important every day. That enrichment isn\u2019t going to stop in 2023.<\/p>\n

Enterprises will increase their dependence on the Internet, both as a conduit for sales and customer support and, increasingly, as a way for their own workers to access core applications. During COVID, one of the less-reported changes enterprises made was to start using the Internet to support work-from-home requirements. They then figured out that if they supported workers via the Internet, they could take their traffic directly into the data center and bypass VPNs. Thus, the Internet started to erode VPN traffic growth, and that\u2019s going to continue and accelerate in 2023.<\/p>\n

Pressure to tackle Internet latency<\/h2>\n

The growth in Internet dependence is really what\u2019s been driving the cloud, because high-quality, interactive, user interfaces are critical, and the cloud\u2019s technology is far better for those things, not to mention easier to employ than changing a data center application would be. A lot of cloud interactivity, though, adds to latency and further validates the need for improvement in Internet latency.<\/p>\n