Enterprise IT departments are straining despite huge increases in network capacity in the past decade. There are growing concerns over bandwidth availability, interoperability and security, as online video, VoIP, social networking and on-demand application services proliferate. Network providers are trending toward an “everything over IP” strategy, as organizations in both the private and public sectors are working up blueprints and laying out pathways for rolling out a next-generation network infrastructure capable of meeting the soaring demands.
The Emergence of Next-Gen Networks, Part 1
Posted by: Andrew K. Burger June 21, 2007 04:00 AMEnterprise IT departments are straining despite huge increases in network capacity in the past decade. There are growing concerns over bandwidth availability, interoperability and security, as online video, VoIP, social networking and on-demand application services proliferate. Network providers are trending toward an “everything over IP” strategy, as organizations in both the private and public sectors are working up blueprints and laying out pathways for rolling out a next-generation network infrastructure capable of meeting the soaring demands.