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Trends and Challenges in Transport and Datacenter Networking

#routing #Switching #Data Center #Transport

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Listen to Gurudatt Shenoy, Cisco, and Ray Mota, PhD, CEO, principal analyst, ACG Research, discuss market trends and challenges in transport and datacenter networking.

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