Networking
Your information life-line, a robust and secure network is mission critical.
Your ideal network supports secure, reliable, and high-speed connections throughout your enterprise. Ease of use, and ease of management are also key factors in its cost-effective operation. To achieve a balance among these often conflicting requirements, requires a comprehensive strategy to selecting your network core / closet.
A redundant high-speed core with dynamic routing and multi-gigabit uplinks should be the backbone of your network. This, coupled with spanning tree configuration (link loop detection) and port-based Network Access Control, is the foundation for a resilient, high-speed infrastructure.
The networking layer is the foundation for all applications across an enterprise. This foundation must be solid and secure. Considerations for quality of service (QoS), Up-time, and failover capabilities are important. However, it is not always about speed and performance. Most gigabit links go under-utilized by many organizations. Implementing QoS or layer 3 routing capabilities is not effective if layer 2 devices are not also addressed.
Wireless network strategies are also important considerations when choosing networking equipment. Major vendors have complete portfolio solutions:
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Aruba Networks
- Aruba is the leader in secure, reliable, manageable and scalable distributed enterprise networks.
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Cisco
- One of the world's leading manufacturers of network and security equipment. Cisco's primary business is in internetworking products, such as routers, bridges, and switches but they also have a complete selection of security and wireless solutions.
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Avaya
- A global leader in enterprise communications systems. (including Nortel equipment)
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Juniper
- Juniper offers a broad product portfolio, spanning routing, switching, security, application acceleration, identity policy and control, and management, designed to give customers unmatched performance, greater choice and flexibility while reducing overall total cost of ownership.
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Enterasys
- Enterasys network switching, routing and security solutions are used by thousands of customers in more than 70 countries worldwide to deliver business-oriented, identity-based visibility and control for voice, video, and data applications.
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Websense
- Websense is the leading provider of unified content security.
