Even in times of limited capital spending, intelligent networks are being deployed to drive new business, revenue and consumption models, enable new customer and employee experiences, and drive efficiencies.

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As important and substantial as these first baby steps are toward intelligent building energy networks, they are just a beginning.

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Oscar also served as President of both the Enterprise Solutions division and the Intelligent Internet division at Nortel Networks.

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The challenge is deploying networks flexible and intelligent enough to do this nimbly.

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Running on these mobiles, and also on home and wide-area networks will be increasingly intelligent software, able to learn behaviour, predict needs and integrate with a growing number of databases, such as transport updates from major providers.

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That's why they've turned to Bigfoot Networks for a high-performance, intelligent wireless solution you can take wherever you go.

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Using social media interfaces, any human is capable of having intelligent, bi-directional conversations with social media enabled networks, systems, or applications.

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Large networks of debit and credit cards can now be intelligent, measurable channels to specific consumer segments.

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Software-defined networks will provide some of this flexibility by separating the control function from data forwarding, but there are additional capabilities emerging, he says, such as intelligent switching of wavelengths, the ability to mix dedicated bandwidth with best-efforts networks, and application layer network traffic optimization, e.g.

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