ACT-IAC White Paper: NS2020 A Perspective on Emerging Technologies

NS2020 A Perspective on Emerging Technologies
Developed by the NS2020 Working Group,  Networks and Telecommunications (N&T) Community of Interest
Date Released: September 2015

The ACT- IAC Networks & Telecommunications (N&T) SIG NS2020 Working Group submitted this paper to the General Services Administration (GSA) for the purposes of presenting consensus industry perspective on emerging technologies at play in the NS2020 Enterprise Infrastructure Services (EIS) procurement, including software defined networking (SDN), programmable service backbone (PSB), network function virtualization (NFV), bandwidth-on-demand, network access, convergence, integrated analytics & reporting, 5G wireless, and the continued evolution of cloud services.