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- Predict User Mobility in Enterprise Networks: Introducing a Design Pattern for Predicting User Movement
- With the advent of high-speed, high-bandwidth mobile radio technologies and low-power, high-computing mobile devices, enterprise-application users are becoming increasingly mobile, rather than remaining fixed or nomadic. To migrate existing real-time applications of such users to these high-mobility networks, knowledge of user movement is essential. In the absence of this knowledge,...
- Tags: Design Pattern, Mobile, Mobility, Enterprise Network, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing
- White papers 2008-06-10
- MPLS ENT - Enterprise Networks over Service Provider MPLS
- View Available Dates and LocationsAs MPLS-based networks become more competitively priced, migrating from Frame Relay connections to MPLS backbones makes sense. To optimize and take full advantage of the MPLS-based backbone, you must understand the full implications of the migration including BGP requirements and Quality of Service...
- Tags: MPLS, Enterprise Network, Network Technology, BGP, Networking
- Training 2008-01-01
- Leveraging MPLS to Enhance Network Transport Capabilities
- As global internetworking infrastructures continue to evolve to support higher usage levels and the convergence of disparate types of service, network architects must increasingly wrestle with the challenges of efficiently routing/switching heterogeneous traffic across complex network structures. Service providers and enterprise network administrators both need maximum flexibility to de fine...
- Tags: MPLS, Network, Enterprise Network, Extreme Networks, Networking
- White papers 2008-01-01
- The Foundation for the Evolution of Enterprise Networks: Ciena's Approach to Optical Networking
- The competitive environment in commercial markets is driving rapid change among large enterprises. New initiatives and market changes require organizational agility and competitive superiority through shortened time-to-market for new and innovative offerings, including new IT initiatives and applications and ongoing improvements in IT performance. These changes require networks to serve...
- Tags: Optical Networking, Network, Enterprise Network, CIENA Communications, Ethernet, Data Centers, Networking, Performance Management, Storage, Network Technology, Hardware, Data Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management
- White papers 2007-11-01
- Control and Compliance Critical for Enterprise Network Security at DSM
- DSM is active worldwide in nutritional and pharma ingredients, performance materials and industrial chemicals. DSM needed better protection from malicious network attacks, viruses and unauthorised access. ISO and IXO compliance was critical, as well as the ability to monitor and report on all network traffic. In order to establish which...
- Tags: McAfee Inc., Network, Compliance, Enterprise Network, DSM, Intrusion Prevention, Networking, Security
- Case studies 2007-10-01
- Addressing Enterprise Network Access Requirements
- The truth is that Network Access Control NAC has become an essential piece of security enforcement and network infrastructure. NAC also is critical to the business as it enables new global business processes that can drive revenue, improve productivity, and cut costs while enhancing security. The time for NAC-based spin...
- Tags: Security, Network, Enterprise Network, Truth, Networking
- White papers 2007-08-01
- Integrating SIP Trunks in Enterprise Networks for Next-Generation Unified Communications
- The adoption of Unified Communications within the enterprise is well underway. The major benefits of this transformation include gains in both employee productivity and operational efficiencies. This paper is the first in a three-part series that discusses the evolution and adoption of Unified Communications trunking services in the enterprise, and...
- Tags: SIP, Unified Communications, Enterprise Network, Cisco Systems Inc.
- White papers 2007-08-01
- Five Building Blocks to Optimize Your Enterprise Network
- Rather than talking about how many subscribers are on the network, one needs to increasingly address how many devices are connected to the network. One is moving toward an era where anything that can be connected to the network will be connected. One is rapidly approaching the state where the...
- Tags: Network, Enterprise Network, Networking
- White papers 2007-05-17
- Correctly configure the Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP) to build an effective, scalable enterprise network
- CCNP Self-Study: Building Scalable Cisco Internetworks: Authorized Self-Study Guide, 3rd Edition is a Cisco-authorized, self-paced learning tool for CCNP preparation. In this sample chapter from the book, study Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol EIGRP, which in both present-day and future routing environments offers benefits and features over...
- Tags: Self-paced Learning, IGRP, Enterprise Network, Cisco Systems Inc., EIGRP
- Book chapters 2007-01-24
- Pragma FortressSSH 5.0: Secure Connectivity Software to Build a Secure Enterprise Network With SSH
- Pragma Fortress is a comprehensive secure connectivity product that provides a highly secure encrypted framework to build a secure network environment for enterprise. Pragma Fortress provides access from a wide variety of platforms. Fortress clients are available for any Windows operating system (Windows Vista/2003/XP/2000), PDAs & Mobile Phones (Pocket PC,...
- Tags: SSH, Enterprise Network, Pragma Fortress, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software
- White papers 2006-10-23
- Virtual Disk Based Centralized Management for Enterprise Networks
- The rapid advances in hardware, software, and networks have made the management of enterprise network systems an increasingly challenging task. Due to the tight coupling between hardware, software, and data, every one of the hundreds or thousands of PCs that are connected in an enterprise environment has to be administered...
- Tags: Software, Disk, Association For Computing Machinery, Enterprise Network, Roi/Tco, Tools & Techniques, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Management
- White papers 2006-09-15
- Benefits of the Virtual Desktop on Enterprise Networks: Introducing Enterprise Desktop Virtualization
- The personal computer revolution is far from over, but enterprises are rightfully questioning the high maintenance costs, endless replacement cycles and security vulnerabilities that plague the standard networked PC. A breakthrough in thin computing now promises to end the PC monopoly on the desktop while giving users improved access to...
- Tags: Desktop Virtualization, PC, Benefit, Enterprise Network, Wyse Technology Inc., Personal Computer Revolution, Desktops, Hardware
- White papers 2006-08-01
- Design a virtualized enterprise network
- This sample chapter from Network Virtualization defines the technical requirements needed to virtualize a network. Then, based on these requirements, it looks at the architectural framework required to successfully support concurrent virtual networks VNs over a shared enterprise physical network. The chapter also discusses the importance of maintaining functionality...
- Tags: Chapter, Network, Enterprise Network, Cisco Systems Inc., Virtualization, Networking, Hardware
- Book chapters 2006-07-25
- The Essential Guide to Deploying MPLS for Enterprise Networks
- MPLS has received broad market attraction in service provider networks and now enterprises are increasingly connecting the distributed and extended enterprise via MPLS-based Wide Area Networks WANs or deploying their own private MPLS networks. MPLS brings the benefits of circuits to packet based IP communications providing consolidation, control, and network...
- Tags: MPLS, Network, Enterprise Network, Networking, Network Technology
- White papers 2006-05-01
- Best Practices for Enterprise Network Security
- Enterprises continue to invest heavily in perimeter security. Firewalls, Intrusion Detection Servers IDS, Intrusion Prevention Servers IPS, Virtual Private Networks VPNs, and other security products continue to be widely deployed. But even as perimeter defenses become more sophisticated, network security becomes more problematic, as users adopt new applications, communications channels,...
- Tags: Enterprise Network, Best Practice, Vernier Networks, Security
- White papers 2006-04-19
- Enterprise VoIP Security: Best Practices
- The opportunity to migrate telephony and voice applications from TDM circuit-switched networks to IP packet-switched networks offers many advantages for enterprise network managers. The current state of Voice over IP VoIP technologies allows companies with dedicated WAN resources to leverage their infrastructures for voice and data applications, and realize cost...
- Tags: Network, Juniper Networks Inc., Enterprise Network, Best Practice, VoIP Security, Telephony, VOIP, Telecommunications, Networking
- White papers 2006-04-01
- The Business Implications of Implementing IP Telephony on Enterprise Networks
- By all accounts, carriers, service providers and enterprise network architects are adopting IP Telephony at a brisk pace. The upshot is that IP Telephony is becoming ubiquitous - in carrier and service provider networks, and in enterprise networks. The proliferation the digital telephony technology will pave the way for true...
- Tags: Tolly Group, Telephony, IP Telephony, IP, Enterprise Network, Upshot, VOIP, Telecommunications, Telecom & Utilities, Networking
- White papers 2006-02-01
- Making Sense of the Wireless Hype: Comparing Wireless Building to Building Solutions for Enterprise Networks
- Leased lines or fiber? When you're given no other choices it often comes down to an unhappy compromise. On one hand, adding telco circuits is convenient enough, but then you're looking at years of costly lease charges for less bandwidth and reliability than you wanted. Fiber on the other hand...
- Tags: Enterprise Network, Fiber, Wi-Fi, Wireless
- White papers 2005-09-17
- Design better enterprise networks by analyzing business goals and constraints
- When designing computer networks, the better your analysis and planning, the more likely your project will successfully meet the client's needs. This sample chapter, taken from Cisco Press' Top-Down Network Design, 2nd Edition, explains the following:How to use a systematic, top-down process when designing a networkHow to analyze you client's...
- Tags: Chapter, Network, Enterprise Network, Cisco Systems Inc., Networking
- Book chapters 2005-06-14
- Cisco explains threats to enterprise network security
- This sample chapter, taken from Cisco Press' Designing Network Security, 2nd Edition, gives critical information on a variety of network security threats, including: Port scanning, unauthorized wireless access, default route impersonation, denial of services DoS attacks, TCP/IP session hijacking, and others. Each section provides a detailed attack description and risk...
- Tags: Security, Chapter, Enterprise Network, Cisco Systems Inc., Networking
- Book chapters 2005-05-23
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