Network Operating Systems

The Digitalk carrier-class enhanced switching and services platform was specifically designed to meet the profitability and business challenges faced by today's carriers. The multiservices platform ensures that carriers can deploy enhanced services and business applications more easily, more quickly, more flexibly, and more profitably. These benefits are due to the dramatically lower cost of service and greater flexibility of an open standards-based platform using Intel Architecture. tech news

Network service providers seeking Cisco Powered Network Program membership must meet rigorous application requirements that, among other things, include network performance, network security, and customer support. Designation also requires an annual program compliance review that guides the Cisco Powered Network Program member toward best practices in the area of overall network design and operations. In the course of working with service providers around the world on these technical reviews, Cisco has developed a criteria and checklists to determine program eligibility. This Data Center White Paper is useful to those constructing or managing data centers with stringent performance and service requirements. Enterprise and commercial customers seeking to purchase Web hosting, applications hosting, call and contact management, or content delivery-type services may also find this guide helpful in evaluating a service provider's data centers. tech news

E-government initiatives aim to respond to the challenges of meeting the growing demands of their citizens and businesses for more efficient service delivery. But e-government projects will never reach their full potential without an efficient underlying network infrastructure. This infrastructure has to securely transmit sensitive information, and deliver mission-critical applications at the same high speed to big, central organizations as well as smaller user groups at the network edges. It must offer sufficient flexibility to add new features in a nondiscretionary fashion, protecting existing network investment. This paper describes how the Cisco Full Service Branch solution provides a crucial tool to help increase the effectiveness of any e-government initiative. tech news

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. tech news

View the .pdf file above to see how a Dell consultant provided a comprehensive on-site network assessment and implemented a solution that helps safeguard the company's data and makes the network more accessible. tech news