Research the speculations on where the state-of-the-art will be in the near future for one of the following technologies. Your paper should include a description of the state-of-the-art in your technology, a discussion of where the sources that you read believe the technology is heading in the near future, and a discussion of how this technology will affect the choices you would make if you were making purchase recommendations for a client. Although there is room for personal opinion in your paper, you must justify your conclusions.

• Network Administration Best Practices
• Networking Certifications and Careers
• Server Technologies
• IP Networking
• Network Hardware
• Network Management Software and Tools
• Network Performance Management
• Network Security Monitoring
• Mobile network technologies
• Firewall policies and methodologies
• Intrusion Detection and Prevention
• Routing protocols 
• Wireless network quality of services 
• Compare layer 2 wireless network with layer 2 wired-line network
• Comparing transport layer protocols – more than TCP and UDP 
• Network virtualization
• Video and Voice over Internet (VVoIP) or Voice over Internet (VoIP)
• Cellular network infrastructure
• Cloud Networking
• The Internet of Everything (IoE)
• IPv6
• Network management
• Disaster Recovery
• Quality of Services (QoS) at different layers 

Note:  Most of the listed topics are very broad, so you should narrow your research to some specific technical aspects related to the subject.