ABSTRACT
The essential vision For decades the evolution of network operations has been manifestly
slower than the growth in electronics and network technology, which
are largely driven by Moore’s Law. Network operations are comprised of
multiple dimensions: people, processes, platforms/tools and performance/
metrics, which we will collectively refer to as the “4Ps”. The coordination
and improvement of these dimensions is a complex undertaking with many
human factors that are notoriously slow to evolve; so it is little surprise that
the state of network operations lags far behind that of the technologically-
driven evolution of the network.
