Only a couple decades ago we were happy just to be able to make a cellular phone call; today many of us can’t wait to install the next new, wacky application on our smartphone or iPad.

Add to that billions of sensors, new kinds of wirelessly connected gadgets, and the growing hunger for advanced apps— some of them bandwidth guzzlers, others low-latency tree-huggers—. Then mix in rising demand for “mobile clouds” on top of that. And what you’ve got are some huge networks challenges….

For further reading, please open the following link :

IEEE Technology Time Machine 2012: Networks in 2020 Will Be “Cloudier”