Enterprise Networks in 2006: Planning for Change
This Burton Group Inflection Point is a Catalyst Conference North America 2006 keynote by Research Director Dave Passmore
Length: 40 minutes
Enterprise, service-provider and residential/consumer networks are becoming increasingly affected by major industry trends, such as the deployment of IP Multimedia Subsystems (IMS), fixed mobile convergence, video as the next “killer app, ” and P2P applications and service providers competing with their customers. Internet substitution, the deployment of more “intelligent” networks and enterprise network maturity also shape the enterprise networking landscape. Burton Group Research Director Dave Passmore will provide a high-level overview of key networking industry changes, describing how they will likely change enterprise infrastructures and operations.
Issues this keynote will address include:
• MPLS and Internet substitution for traditional frame relay or ATM WANs
• The impact of new WLANs with hundreds-of-Mbps bandwidth and new fixed/mobile wireless broadband data services
• The impending integration of voice/telephony systems, videoconferencing and instant messaging/presence systems, and how they will affect organizations, users and applications
• WAN performance issues brought on by data center consolidation and distributed-service architectures
• Network security architectures driven by “inside-out” malware threats
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