As the explosion in demand for network bandwidth continues, service providers must bring new approaches to how they design, deploy, and operate their networks or risk delivering poor customer experience. Technologies like SDN and NFV are designed to help deal with some of these pressures and now—with big data analytics and AI, it gets even better. By leveraging machine learning capabilities that help power network performance and optimization at superhuman speed and scale, service providers can make true intelligent automation possible, run their businesses smarter and much more efficiently, and adapt at a pace in line with customer expectations.