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Network World Special Report:
The New Wireless LAN Architecture
This Special Report creates an outline of a Wireless LAN
architecture that tightly integrates with the existing LAN architecture and
which greatly enhances the agility of the network organization.
The New Wireless LAN Architecture
Network World Special Report:
The Adaptive WAN
The Three Components of Optimizing WAN Bandwidth
There are two fundamental truths that characterize an enterprise Wide Area Network (WAN). The first of those fundamental truths is that an enterprise WAN brings indisputable value to business of all types. Because of this business value, the amount of traffic that transits an enterprise WAN has historically increased at around thirty percent per year. However, a number of business and technology factors has caused an acceleration in the use of wide area networking. In particular, the amount of traffic on the typical enterprise WAN is currently increasing at around forty to forty-five percent per year. At this rat of increase, the traffic on an enterprise WAN will double every two years.
The Three Components of Optimizing WAN Bandwidth
Business Continuity Disaster Recovery Planning
Disaster recovery and business continuity planning are not new topics. Both have been around for a number of years. However, while the concepts have been around for a long time, they were not that widely implemented. In addition, the catastrophes that were envisioned in most disaster recovery or business continuity plans were somewhat narrow in scope. As one financial firm in New York City explained: "We had business continuity planning prior to September 11. One part of that plan was to fly our traders to London where they would be as functional as they had been in New York City. Who knew that they would shut down all of the airports?"
Business Continuity Disaster Recover Planning
Introduction to the Telecommunications Marketplace
In this paper we examine the multiple components of the telecommunications industry. We will review the history of telecommunications in the US in order to understand how today’s competitive market evolved. In addition, we will examine the various types of service providers. A focus will be placed on the Competitive Local Exchange Carrier and the Internet Service Provider and the services that they provide.
Telecommunications Marketplace
The Path To Convergence
The goal of this paper is to reduce the gap between the enthusiasm of the networking vendors and trade publications for the topic of convergence and the reluctance on the part of enterprise users to implement it. As a first step towards that goal, we must agree as to what is meant by convergence.
The New Age MAN -- The Architectures and Services
**Published in Network World October 2001**
Part 1 of 2
While there are a large number of service providers offering MAN services, there are more differences amongst the approaches taken by these service providers than there are similarities. This article is the first of a two article series intended to help the reader choose between the wide range of choices currently available in the marketplace.
The New Age MAN -- The Architectures and Services
The New Age MAN -- The Marketplace Requirements
**Published in Network World October 2001**
Part 2 of 2
As mentioned in the first article of this two part series (The New Age MAN -- The Architectures and Services), the authors worked with a broad range of MAN service providers to perform a reality check on the current status of the often-hyped MAN services marketplace. This article will focus on the market place demand and positioning of these services, as well as other key issues that determine if these services are indeed ready for production networks.
The New Age MAN -- The Marketplace Requirements
The Rapidly Changing Enterprise: WAN Marketplace
In order to quantify the dynamics of the rapidly changing enterprise WAN marketplace, Ashton, Metzler & Associates (AM&A) worked with NetWorld + Interop to create a web-based survey (The Survey). In June and July of 2001, approximately 500 network professionals completed The Survey. The analysis of the responses to The Survey indicate that there is more of a mandate for making fundamental changes to the enterprise WAN than AM&A has seen in a decade.
The Rapidly Changing Enterprise: WAN Marketplace
Enterprise Security: A Status Check
Enterprise security has long been an enigma. For years, industry press and analysts have discussed the need for enterprise security, and this need has been reinforced repeatedly by well-publicized security breaches. However, the conventional theory has been that while enterprise IT organizations talk the talk of security, few have taken adequate measures to implement effective security.
Creating the Business Case for Value-Added Services Over DSL
As we enter the twenty-first century, there are a number of significant changes occurring in the Service Provider marketplace. Perhaps the most fundamental of these changes is that over the last few years narrowband access services have become a low cost commodity. In order to remain profitable in this challenging environment, Service Providers must deploy new, higher value-added services. Luckily, there is a large and growing set of viable new services that Service Providers can deploy.
The Path to Convergence
The goal of this paper is to
reduce the gap between the enthusiasm of the networking vendors and trade
publications for the topic of convergence and the reluctance on the part of
enterprise users to implement it.
As a first step towards that goal, we must agree as to what is meant by
convergence.
Personalized Internet Services: Bringing Content and Subscribers Together
There are a number of fundamental shifts currently taking place in the Service Provider marketplace. In particular, the margins that Service Providers have enjoyed from the provisioning of access services and access devices are rapidly diminishing. However, at the same time that the contribution that access services and devices makes to the bottom line of a Service Provider is being sharply reduced, there are both the technologies and the market place demand for new services. These new services provide a double advantage to the Service Provider in that they both provide for higher margins, while simultaneously allowing the Service Provider to control the customer relationship. Those Service Providers that either do not see these changes coming, or who are unable to adapt to them, will loose market share and risk extinction. This paper will detail steps that service providers must take to ensure that they successfully transition their business to include these new services.
Personalized Internet Services doc
Is Usage Based Billing A Winning Strategy?
Networking budgets are under attack. They are not rising anywhere near as quickly as the demands to support more users, more applications, and larger files. In their attempt to control the cost of networking, network managers have two variables they can manage - the number of units of traffic on the network and the unit cost. Historically, network managers have focused on the unit cost. However, the recent development of technology to enable usage-based billing raises a f fundamental question. Can a network manager deploy usage-based billing and better control the amount of traffic that rides the network? The answer to that question involves a lot more than just evaluating the technology.
The Mandate to Deploy Wirespeed Switch Routers
For many companies, the deployment of Wirespeed Switch Routers is very timely. In particular, over the next couple of years, most companies will see their traffic volumes double and the need for routing capacity increases as much as an order of magnitude. Given the constrained budgets that exist in most companies, it is not possible to meet these demands using the traditional approaches to networking. It is precisely this gap between the rapidly increasing network requirements and the sharply constrained network budgets that is creating the mandate to deploy Wirespeed Switch Routers.
Leveraging Vendor Websites: Bringing Websites into Management Solutions
Some vendors are making significant strides in leveraging their Web sites to facilitate Network Management. Click here to download more information on the tools that are becoming available to effectively track and audit your web site.
Baselining the Bottom Line
Build it and they will come. That sort of freewheeling philosophy is fine for big-budget Hollywood productions. But the frugal folks who run corporate networks will want to get a tad more granular. How many end-users are likely to show up? How much will it cost to service each one? What's the best way to contain those costs without sacrificing response time and reliability?