ESnet Director Inder Monga’s keynote talk is among the events highlighted in a new video recapping the events at “Netwerkdag 2017 (Network Day 2017)“, a daylong meeting organized by SURFnet, the national research and education (R&E) network of the Netherlands. The event was held Dec. 14, 2017 in Utrecht under the theme of making connections.

In his talk about the future of R&E networking, Monga talked about the vision for next-generation networks that includes the increasing importance of software/software expertise in building networks, security and increasing the telemetry and analytics capability (including research in machine learning for networking) to tackle the growth in data as well as number of data producing devices.