Data & Analytics for Customer-Defined Networking

As the industry moves closer to delivering network-as-a-service, the focus on on-demand and self-serve capabilities is starting to shift to the need for integration among enterprises, data center providers, cloud exchanges and next-generation communication providers, as delivered in a customer-defined (programmable) way. The success of these software-centric platforms, leveraging virtualized functions and cloud-centric applications, depends on the interconnectedness of the ecosystem, as well as evolving the technologist's skillset to develop and support advanced APIs and streaming analytics platforms. This course will examine the business impact of these technologies through customer use cases and how the workforce is changing to support the new model.