Thirty-year networking industry whiz Avi Freedman, co-founder and CEO of Kentik, gives a no B.S. guide to what’s really ahead for networks next year. Avi provides his take on questions such as:

• How can you tell the difference between networking hype versus reality?
• What has been promised this year?
• Where has the needle actually moved?
• And what seems likely for networking in 2019?

Topics include all the new “hotness” — from automation, CI/CD, and SD-everywhere, to BGP Validation, Edge Computing, Cloud Native, Streaming Telemetry, and killing SNMP.