Assignment: Emerging Networking Technologies

You are the network operation manager of an organization. The senior management team is aware of legacy applications running on the network infrastructure maintained by your team. To increase efficiency and reduce cost, you are considering a pilot move to a cloud-based platform. As a first step, you would like to brief the senior management team on the changing landscape in networking technologies, as well as opportunities and challenges brought about by the changes.

Create an 8- to 10-slide professional Microsoft PowerPoint presentation including the following:

• Compare and contrast software-defined networking
• Analysis of network function virtualization and cloud computing
• Examination of opportunities and challenges (e.g., security, cost, reliability, and availability)
• Videos, audio, photos, diagrams, or graphs as appropriate
• Substantial speaker notes to elaborate on the key points of your plan
• Audio narration within your presentation.