Session Abstract:
As we talk about achieving the full potential of IoT, we realize that network connectivity is the backbone that makes IoT possible. So, is connecting everything within the enterprise enough for the success of IoT use cases? The answer to this depends on where lies the devices that need to be connected. IoT devices and traditional enterprise end devices can be required anywhere – outdoors in extreme temperatures – thus causing the need to extend connectivity far beyond air-conditioned spaces. For instance, warehouses require ruggedized networking products due to dust, heat, cold, and dampness. Automation, visibility, and security are the other essential pillars that make enterprise IoT applications successful. Intent-based networking in the enterprise industry is the way to go as a policy-based security platform and for automated network management. The intent-based network continuously monitors and adjusts to ensure alignment with business intent through a closed-loop system, including network analytics and machine learning. Network-based automation helps to achieve operational results faster and reduces downtime. With time being critical and expensive, new devices and services need quick and remote deployment. Applications that can manage multiple sites remotely allow the network engineer to centrally manage the inventory of network devices and define security policy once, which gets pushed to each site. Routers, switches, and wireless access points comprise the physical components of a logical entity, fabric, a self-contained network entity that provides routing and security for the end devices attached to it. Connection to this fabric edge or extended node can help deploy a network service. Join this session in IoT Live Slam’23 for insights into the right solutions and the requirements to extend networks anywhere to meet the true potential of enterprise IoT use cases. The session will highlight the software solutions that can design, define policy, secure, and provision the network infrastructure.
Speaker:
With a Master of Technology in Networks and Networked Systems, Richa Daga is as technical as you can get. She is working as a Software Engineer at Cisco and has vast work experience in the telecom and optical networking domain. Prior to this, she worked at Ciena and has developed cutting-edge products supporting data traffic up to terabits of speed. Her passion lies in technologies and chipsets that connect the world.
Richa won the Global Conference Speaker of the Year Award at the WomenTech’22 Conference across multiple countries. She is a global technical speaker at various industry platforms such as the international IEEE Smart Cities Week, ClueCon Conference, SubOptic Conference, Women Who Code Conference, Women In Telco Conference, and IEEE Woman in Engineering International Leadership Conference.
Richa spearheads diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives and leads the India chapter of Women in Science and Engineering, (WISE) Community of Cisco. She was the chairperson of the IEEE Women in Engineering group of her alma mater and is a core member of the ‘She Speaks Bureau’ global initiative to elevate female speakers. Richa is a technical author at global Enterprise Viewpoint Publication, IEEE Newsletter for their Smart Cities special edition, and has authored her journey in an Amazon best-seller as a global woman changemaker. Richa believes in investing in knowledge and sharing it with other technical communities globally. She is based out of New Delhi, India.
