Last year saw firms increasingly phase out multi-protocol label switching (MPLS) infrastructures, leading to the continued adoption of software-defined wide area networks (SD-WAN), along with the commensurate rise of its next evolutionary step, secure access service edge (SASE).
Another key trend of 2023 was the arrival of artificial intelligence (AI) into networking services, including not only collaboration and contact centre environments to boost user and customer experiences, but also to act as an essential assistant in assessing networking management and observability.
Yet there was another important geographic trend in 2023, namely the…

