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Don’t Let The One-Percenters Drive Your Network Architecture

Six Use Cases That Hamper Networking Automation Adoption

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Updated Oct 08, 2025

Summary

Networking pros are getting sucked in by a warped set of requirements that do little to address the immediate networking needs they’re facing. Vendors cite flashy use cases like networking for AI and IoT, but Forrester has found that, in practice, these are driving overengineered networks — and worse, they’re superseding more important investments. This report highlights some of the challenges this has caused and the areas that infrastructure and operations (I&O) professionals should focus on to meet their digital transformation goals.

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