Viavi Releases Its 14th Annual State of the Network Golbal Study
IT moves past the pandemic
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — VIAVI Solutions Inc. released the results of its 14th annual State of the Network global study of enterprise networking and security challenges. As the COVID-19 pandemic forces a global reset of how people gather and work, the survey provides key insights into how organizations are adapting. According to the results, 60% of respondents are looking forward to increased spending in 2021 to deploy new technologies — including SD-WAN (62%), private 5G (52%), and AI operations (45%) — while supporting a surge in use of unified communications (UC) and collaboration tools, spending more time in security threat detection and remediation, and reckoning with a skills gap.
Despite the disruptive challenges of 2020, the survey reveals that IT teams have adapted to managing end-user experiences in today’s work-from-home paradigm. Survey respondents now report spending at least 10 hours per week addressing issues related to UC and collaboration tools, such as WebEx, Microsoft Teams, and Zoom. The importance of network and application access has never been more critical, particularly as some organizations look to extend remote work indefinitely.