Analytics-Driven Networking: When the Computer becomes the Network
Inder Monga · 2020
As the era of 'human-managed networking' passes to 'analytics-driven networking', more and more data about networks, including the constituent flows, is being tracked and retrieved. With networks now needing to be an effective sensor, new methods are being proposed to create and manage this streaming telemetry. While collection of this telemetry is happening at an unprecedented scale, it is unclear if the data is of enough resolution to make real-time decisions needed for fine-grained control, or for the application of new machine learning/artificial intelligence techniques. New techniques are being developed to provide high-precision telemetry as new analytics to take advantage of that are being developed.