For the first time in history, the demand for bandwidth will exceed the economical capacity of the next generation of network switching equipment. The time-tested solution of adding more and more raw bandwidth will not work. What’s needed is a new resilient network architecture that minimizes latency by allocating bandwidth selectively to specific applications, ensuring a high-quality user experience for real-time applications. This network also needs to be far easier to manage and maintain than legacy networks, freeing IT staff from the day-to-day struggle to deliver acceptable levels of application performance to users.