The Future X Network: Enabling a New Digital Era

We are at the dawn of a new era in networking that has the potential to define a new phase of human existence. This era will be defined by the digitization and connection of everything and everyone, with the goal of automating life and effectively creating time by maximizing the efficiency of everything we do and by augmenting our intelligence with knowledge that expedites and optimizes decision making and our essential routines or processes. This futuristic vision would, on the surface, seem to be the stuff of science fiction, rather than rational technological thinking and analysis. However, we are at a unique moment in time, in which there is a confluence of common technological elements and human needs consumer and enterprise that is driving a convergence of market segments IT/Web and Telecom/Networking and players, and the consequent emergence of new business models. In essence this is a classic supply-demand equation but one that is about to be rebalanced as the demand becomes increasingly common between consumer and enterprise, and is satisfied using a set of common, scalable technologies, so that an optimization of supply is possible to meet this demand with innovative new value propositions.