Research the speculations on where the state-of-the-art will be in the near future for one of the following technologies. Your paper should include a description of the state-of-the-art in your technology, a discussion of where the sources that you read believe the technology is heading in the near future, and a discussion of how this technology will affect the choices you would make if you were making purchase recommendations for a client. Although there is room for personal opinion in your paper, you must justify your conclusions.
- Network Administration Best Practices
- Networking Certifications and Careers
- Server Technologies
- IP Networking
- Network Hardware
- Network Management Software and Tools
- Network Performance Management
- Network Security Monitoring
- Mobile network technologies
- Firewall policies and methodologies
- Intrusion Detection and Prevention
- Routing protocols
- Wireless network quality of services
- Compare layer 2 wireless network with layer 2 wired-line network
- Comparing transport layer protocols more than TCP and UDP
- Network virtualization
- Video and Voice over Internet (VVoIP) or Voice over Internet (VoIP)
- Cellular network infrastructure
- Cloud Networking
- The Internet of Everything (IoE)
- IPv6
- Network management
- Disaster Recovery
- Quality of Services (QoS) at different layers
Note: Most of the listed topics are very broad, so you should narrow your research to some specific technical aspects related to the subject.
