Wednesday, February 23, 2005
Ensure that benefits and savings outweigh investment and upheaval of convergence
Ensure that benefits and savings outweigh investment and upheaval of convergence
Article I wrote about convergence and whether it's the right route for everyone. Full page in the printed magazine too.
Summary of the article: -
Three steps to convergence, non-converged, co-operative convergence and intelligent convergence.
Non-convergence is where a company has networks dedicated for different purposes, such as the internet, voice communications or a virtual private network. This can be inefficient as the company pays for multiple networks regardless of capacity used.
Co-operative convergence is the most common set-up today. Large corporations and public sector organisations work with carrier partners to tailor-make a set of metrics for all their network traffic. These ensure that business-critical data is prioritised over the shared network.
The in intelligent convergence, where the carrier's network will have the intelligence built-in and ascertain the type of traffic passing across it and treat it in an appropriate manner. They'll be "off-the-shelf" metrics.
The goes on about it's not all that simple and there may be large costs in re-engineering customer LANs to ensure they can maintain QoS metrics across their own infrastructure.
Article I wrote about convergence and whether it's the right route for everyone. Full page in the printed magazine too.
Summary of the article: -
Three steps to convergence, non-converged, co-operative convergence and intelligent convergence.
Non-convergence is where a company has networks dedicated for different purposes, such as the internet, voice communications or a virtual private network. This can be inefficient as the company pays for multiple networks regardless of capacity used.
Co-operative convergence is the most common set-up today. Large corporations and public sector organisations work with carrier partners to tailor-make a set of metrics for all their network traffic. These ensure that business-critical data is prioritised over the shared network.
The in intelligent convergence, where the carrier's network will have the intelligence built-in and ascertain the type of traffic passing across it and treat it in an appropriate manner. They'll be "off-the-shelf" metrics.
The goes on about it's not all that simple and there may be large costs in re-engineering customer LANs to ensure they can maintain QoS metrics across their own infrastructure.
