Ray Motaof ACG Research and Sanjay Munshi of Brocade Communications discuss the role of analytics as a key enabler in the evolution of mobile network architectures and business models. Watch Sanjay make the case for analytics architectures to evolve alongside mobile architectures, citing a few leading use cases that highlight the benefits of NFV, SDN and dynamic policy control.
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