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Networking Solutions
Today, more than ever, network reliability and efficiency are paramount to business success. A healthy network infrastructure lowers the cost of bandwidth,speeds service delivery, reduces response time in competitive situations,and positions a company to respond to new opportunities. Basically, it is a business necessity.
How does one manage this challenge while respecting the reduced spending and significantly higher ROI threshold that are characteristic of today’s IT world?
A well conceived network offering includes products that can equip main, remote or branch offices with products that easily allow interconnectivity, ease of management, and support for new converged technologies such as IP Telephony, video or wireless connectivity. D&A InfoTech partners with a selection of best-of-breed vendors that offer access routing, Ethernet switching, firewall/VPN and security, and advanced communications products that allow network managers to equip their network from the WAN to the desktop with well designed, affordable solutions capable of embracing future expansion and advanced technologies.
Convergence
Network convergence is defined as the integration of all traffic types – voice, data and video solutions – onto a single IP network.
Multiple data and traffic types are aggregated to coexist seamlessly. Additionally, a converged network must sufficiently handle multiple traffic types while exhibiting different behaviors to deliver consistent quality and reliability for the user.
For example, with a real-time Voice over IP (VoIP) application, a converged network must reliably route voice packets with minimum delay, limited jitter and without dropping or losing packets.
Also known as multi-service networking, a converged network can reduce costs for enterprises while providing enhanced functionality and increased flexibility.
Benefits of integrating all types of communications include more efficient communication services, extended access to corporate resources for mobile workers,a solid foundation for deploying more sophisticated, integrated and potentially revenuegenerating applications, and increased productivity levels overall.
As a result, enterprises that embrace convergence can experience increased profits and grow revenue to gain a competitive advantage.
Convergence deployments have yielded encouraging results in such areas as QoS, application bandwidth management, stability of vendors and their solutions, and return on investment(ROI).
Since today’s key solution areas — security, mobility and convergence — are all interdependent, enterprise decision makers should avoid locking into a proprietary architecture or one-dimensional solutions that cannot adapt to all application traffic needs simultaneously.
With the right strategy and an adaptive network architecture, enterprises can confidently and successfully create a powerful, standards-based multi-service network that efficiently handles a variety of traffic types simultaneously.
Getting it Right
D&A InfoTech can assist in proper network design and product selection which simplifies network administration and lowers the cost of network infrastructure. The right equipment converts any network into a flexible and cost efficient resource – one that accommodates these new technologies without forklift upgrades, and bridges your existing applications and systems to updated technologies.
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