Future of Networks: Modern Communication Infrastructure (網路的未來：現代通訊基礎設施)

本書全面討論了網路轉型趨勢，朝向智慧型網路的發展，以及未來通訊基礎設施的前景。作者揭示了塑造產業的技術與技術知識之間的相互作用。深入探討網路基礎設施從靜態到動態及智慧型的演變，本書探討了這些進步如何提升用戶體驗、推動企業的數位轉型，並徹底改變世界的連結方式。涵蓋網路技術趨勢、系統單晶片（SOCs）的進展、雲端網路、自動化、網路洞察（遙測與可觀察性）、容器網路、網路安全及人工智慧基礎設施等主題，讀者將獲得有關塑造通訊基礎設施的尖端技術的寶貴見解。無論您是資深的行業專業人士還是新進者，本書都是理解網路技術最新進展和未來方向的寶貴資源。

Dhiman Deb Chowdhury is a high-tech industry veteran with 25+ years' experience with progressive career in data and telecommunications industry. He is currently leading Distributed Services Switching (DSS) product lines at Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE). Prior to joining HPE, Mr. Chowdhury served as the head of product management and strategic marketing for time and frequency division at Trimble, Inc where he defined products, oversaw product innovations, technology accumulation and managed product marketing. At IPInfusion, Mr. Chowdhury served as Vice President of Product Marketing and Business Development. As the technology leader and executive of the firm, Dhiman defined technology and product roadmap and engaged with leading industry forums to advocate network disaggregation and open innovation in the high-tech field. He extensively travelled around the world to present network disaggregation technologies and its application to building smart nextgen network infrastructure invarious technology conferences and tradeshows. At Delta Electronics, Dhiman led the formation of Agema System, a technology venture where he defined open networking technology and product roadmap. He was at the forefront of the whitebox and open networking movement during his tenure at Delta. Prior to Delta, Mr Chowdhury managed R&D at Allied Telesis, created Industry's first VoIP products at Netgear and Nortel. At Nortel, Dhiman was instrumental to Nortel's QoS architecture specification and definition of industry leading hybrid VoIP Routing systems. He holds a BSEE in Telecommunications and Electronics Engineering, MBA from Liverpool University and studied Doctor of Business Administration at The Robert Gordon University. Mr. Chowdhury has authored a number of books in technology and management sciences and wrote numerous scholarly papers. He is also an avid blogger and a philanthropist, founder of HRCBM an international NGO in special consultative status with ECOSOC of the UN.

Dhiman Deb Chowdhury 是一位高科技產業的資深專家，擁有超過 25 年的數據和電信行業經驗，並在職業生涯中不斷進步。目前，他在惠普企業（Hewlett Packard Enterprise, HPE）負責分散式服務交換（Distributed Services Switching, DSS）產品線。在加入 HPE 之前，Chowdhury 先生曾擔任 Trimble, Inc. 的時間與頻率部門產品管理和戰略行銷負責人，負責定義產品、監督產品創新、技術積累及管理產品行銷。在 IPInfusion，Chowdhury 先生擔任產品行銷和商業發展副總裁。作為公司的技術領導者和高層主管，Dhiman 定義了技術和產品路線圖，並參與主要行業論壇，倡導網絡解耦和高科技領域的開放創新。他曾廣泛旅行於世界各地，在各種技術會議和貿易展上介紹網絡解耦技術及其在建設智慧下一代網絡基礎設施中的應用。在台達電子（Delta Electronics），Dhiman 主導了 Agema System 的成立，這是一個技術創業公司，他在其中定義了開放網絡技術和產品路線圖。在台達任職期間，他在白盒和開放網絡運動中處於前沿。此前，Chowdhury 先生在 Allied Telesis 管理研發，並在 Netgear 和 Nortel 創造了行業首個 VoIP 產品。在 Nortel，Dhiman 對 Nortel 的 QoS 架構規範及行業領先的混合 VoIP 路由系統的定義起到了重要作用。他擁有電信和電子工程的學士學位（BSEE）、利物浦大學的 MBA，並在羅伯特·戈登大學（The Robert Gordon University）攻讀商業管理博士學位。Chowdhury 先生著有多本技術和管理科學的書籍，並撰寫了多篇學術論文。他也是一位熱衷於寫作的部落客和慈善家，創立了 HRCBM，這是一個與聯合國經濟及社會理事會（ECOSOC）具有特殊諮詢地位的國際非政府組織。