Friday, May 7, 2010

High Performance Branch Networks

More than 80% of all workers are located outside of corporate headquarters yet require the same access to business systems and applications that their corporate counterparts have. Access to these services by branch personnel must be reliable and secure. Therefore the network infrastructure that delivers them must responsive, stable and impenetrable to malicious behavior. Additionally, the networks and branch systems must be fully capable of centralized management.

IT organizations are looking for integrated solutions to reduce the number of network appliances in the branch and will need to apply their own business applications and features to optimize and/or customize their functionality. For these reasons, IT organizations operating dispersed branch office networks will look for solutions from vendors who offer robust products that support multiple networking and security functions. This will reduce the number of hardware platforms and points of failure. Naturally, the multifunction, integrated nature of these platforms requires a single operating system, further reducing the complexity of the network and operational concerns. Tight coupling of the hardware and the operating system along with open system development tools will allow the networking components to be tailored to the needs of the individual, branch centric business.

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