Encompassing the data center, campus, full-service branches, the WAN, and more, the enterprise network should facilitate secure communications and business processes-empowering users to attain optimal productivity and organizations to protect, optimize, and grow their business. The elements and benefits of a Business Ready systems strategy are discussed, with a focus on the foundation IP infrastructure, network system intelligence, and embedded application and storage services that make up the Cisco Business Ready Data Center. Also discussed is the increasingly important role intelligence plays in today's network infrastructures and Cisco's vision of intelligent networking.
Did you find this white paper useful?
22 out of 50 users found this white paper useful
Related white papers
Quality of Service Requirements for IP-SAN Networks
Storage Area Networks (SANs) enable direct connections between heterogeneous storage devices and servers. This capability offers data centers greater flexibility, enhanced management, and increased system throughput. IP-SANs extend SAN benefits beyond the...
Comparative Approaches in Implementing Wide Area Satellite Networks
Tremendous growth has occurred in the assimilation of the Internet into everyday business operations over the past 18 months. Furthermore, greater demands have been placed on traditional LAN/WAN connectivity methods for higher...
Transparent LAN Service (TLS)
Transparent LAN service enables service subscribers to seamlessly integrate their wide area network (WAN) into their local area networks (LANs) through high-speed interconnection, quality of service, transparent performance characteristics, and...
Transparent LAN Service as an Alternative to Frame Relay
Transparent LAN service is gaining ground as a popular alternative to frame relay. Transparent LAN service is a high speed, LAN interconnection service that hides the complexity associated with WAN...
Transparent LAN Service: Definition and Example of a Money-Making Service Offering
This document describes transparent LAN Service and demonstrates how a forward-thinking service provider can simultaneously solve its customers problems and create new revenue opportunities. Each site has a fast Ethernet network....
Multi-Megabit Access Options
As the need of bandwidth for wide area network access grow beyond the T1/E1 level, service providers and enterprises are faced with an increasing myriad of technology choices for multi-megabit...
Data Backup Over Distance
To provide a reliable, high performance storage infrastructure to support data backup and recovery, many businesses are turning to storage area networks (SANs) built on Fibre Channel technologies. Optimized for...
