Alphabet Soup: The Truth about Emerging Network Technologies and Next-Generation Courseware

SDN, NFV, SPB: networking has never been more crucial to the strategy of a university and the successful delivery of next-generation courseware. This panel session will discuss the implication for university CIOs of considering the many new emerging technologies and directions. Are these acronyms critical to your future student relationship, or is it just one big alphabet soup? Together with a technical review of these technologies, in the education context, this session will give good recommendations for your future decisions.

OUTCOMES: Understanding what new networking technologies to explore and how they relate to a next-gen education model * Get ideas and strategies that will lower the total cost of running a next-gen teaching environment * Understand how to embrace these strategies institution-wide and how they will benefit the greater mission of a teaching institution