What will happen in the networking industry in 2012? SearchNetworking.com sat down with five leading industry analysts to learn what they are predicting for the new year. Andre Kindness, senior analyst with Forrester Research, told us that network engineers will need to learn how to be software engineers. Also, application delivery controllers and WAN optimization controllers will converge, and Chinese vendor Huawei will compete heavily with Cisco Systems and HP Networking in North America for your business.

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