Network Planning and Network Management
Enterprise WAN Capacity Planning
| Title: | Enterprise WAN Capacity Planning (ID: ERS0802) | | Author(s): | Jeff Young (Burton Group) | | Origin: | Documents Contributed by ECAR, Research Studies (03/28/2008) | | Type: | Articles, Papers, and Reports | | Abstract: | Capacity planning or capacity management isn't just for networks anymore. In fact, while enterprise wide area networks (WANs) were once only optimized for transaction processing, it is now harder to find an enterprise WAN that hasn't been optimized in multiple ways to carry voice and video, Internet, and some mission-critical application that replaced a mainframe transaction system. With all of the new and interesting traffic types floating around in the WAN, it's a wonder anyone can keep things straight. Even Internet backbones, which should be application agnostic, are throttling certain applications to protect their own infrastructures. WAN capacity planning must evolve from an effort that network architects undertook alone into an effort that involves coordination among multiple infrastructure groups inside IT.
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Networking Research: Trends and Issues
| Title: | Networking Research: Trends and Issues (ID: NMD07008) | | Author(s): | Deepankar Medhi (University of Missouri-Kansas City) | | Origin: | Contributed by or Presented at Net@EDU (State Networks) (02/06/2007) | | Type: | Presentations/Speeches | | Abstract: | Networking research can be broadly categorized into two directions: understanding and improving current networks, and imagining future networks and related protocol/technology research and development. Significant research continually improves current features of the Internet, a prime example of a "future network" when it was envisioned over 30 years ago. External forces can also play a critical role in networking research (for example, the deployment of services that become popular overnight because current networks can support them). This phenomenon raises additional issues that can feed into either of the two broad directions. In this talk, I'll discuss a few historical examples and summarize the current trends and obstacles in networking research, addressing the need for both short- and long-term networking research directions. | | View this resource: | |
Sensible Design Principles for New Networks and Services
| Title: | Sensible Design Principles for New Networks and Services (ID: CSD3705) | | Author(s): | Kalevi Kilkki (Nokia Research Center) | | Source: | First Monday | | Origin: | Contributed by Organizations or Campuses (2005) | | Type: | Articles, Papers, and Reports | | Abstract: | The use of many complex technologies has been either much less or essentially different than what were the great expectations when development started. Based on an analysis about the reasons for past failures, we propose three rules for sensible network design process to avoid useless development efforts. First, the analysis of customer needs has to concentrate on practical uses that are likely to become everyday routines. Secondly, the development of a new technology must be based on well–defined, carefully selected core principles. Thirdly, during the development process the real experiences in real networks must be continuously taken into account. | | View this resource: | |
The Journey Toward 24 x 7 IT Monitoring
| Title: | The Journey Toward 24 x 7 IT Monitoring (ID: EDU04160) | | Author(s): | Thomas M. Sheriff (University of North Carolina at Greensboro) | | Origin: | Presented at EDUCAUSE Annual Conferences (2004) | | Type: | Presentations/Speeches | | Abstract: | Network operations centers (NOC) are secure master control centers where IT staff use a variety of tools to observe, analyze, and report on network infrastructure, servers, services, and applications for intrusion, availability, configuration, and performance. Learn how UNCG struggled through designing, building, and operating their NOC with limited staffing and budget. | | View this resource: | |
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