In all of today's application environment, if you want to improve the company's reputation and create new business opportunities, we must pay attention to the role of technology. Of particular note is the high-speed wired and wireless networking technology will lead the medium-sized companies into the Internet age, to help them achieve IP telephony and other new features, and provide the infrastructure to meet future requirements through extensions. This Design Guide will discuss business opportunities of the most striking, and provide recommendations to help mid-market integration by means of wired and wireless infrastructure to enhance application functionality.
Mid-market companies to achieve the basic requirements necessary for leading features include high-speed local area network (LAN) advantages in the wired environment transplanted from the hub to the switch, as well as increased flexibility, mobility, portability and scalability through a combination of wired and wireless infrastructure sex. This design guide will introduce major Cisco switching, wireless LAN (WLAN) and broadband product platform, with these platforms, mid-market will be able to meet the current and future build strong end network employee needs. In addition, the paper also cited the example of a network, the purpose is to introduce the actual deployment strategies to help mid-market enterprises to improve resource utilization, to obtain the maximum benefit from the network.
Mid-market network challenges and opportunities
In the development and maintenance to meet today's high-tech society and the global economy requires infrastructure in the process, mid-market companies face many challenges. In addition to meet regulatory requirements, midmarket must use appropriate technologies to strengthen communications and business practices in the rapid development of the Internet economy. Business leaders may understand technological developments, but limited human and financial resources and unable to provide the necessary technical services. Institutions in this market must also be used more and more limited human and financial resources to meet the growing technical requirements. Fortunately, the development of technology is to meet these needs. If switching technology and combines the advantages of WLAN, we can help midmarket companies with limited financial resources with limited budgets to achieve higher value and greater functionality. Just pay a reasonable cost, companies can implement to support multiple high-bandwidth infrastructure leading applications. These applications in turn can provide a variety of new features that make work easier and effective, and further reduce costs. Examples of such applications are as follows:
Convergence of voice, video and data applications - medium-sized companies can quickly integrate the latest networking technology to take advantage of the Internet and new integrated voice, video and data applications, such as IP telephony, interactive call center, unified messaging, e-learning, e-commerce, CRM and so on. With the integrated applications, mid-market companies will be able to market with the same level of productivity and customer awareness of different businesses to compete.
Process Automation - mid-market companies to make Web-based processes, and allows employees to internal users, external suppliers and customers to quickly share complex documents, thereby improving productivity. In fact, the entire process regardless of where employees, the company can be automated.
Online Content - in the mid-market environment, online content will soon become the norm. These contents (which may include product information, price and release date) is available online produce, manage, distribute and access.
Multimedia features - rich multimedia content is rapidly replacing reports, presentations and documents flat data files. Therefore, mid-market network must be strong enough to support voice, video, data and streaming media consolidation. These features can achieve critical business enterprise behavior, such as video-based training programs, videoconferencing staff meeting, broadcasting.
Provide new technology for the mid-market LAN
Meet the requirements of high-speed LAN
Even in integrated wired and wireless environments, mid-market high-speed wired LAN is the main LAN connection. Compared with wireless technology, wired LAN can provide higher transmission rates over short and long distances. However, it must take some action in order to achieve maximum performance as a wired LAN. For example, the network infrastructure must be able to provide sufficient bandwidth and by means of intelligent configuration optimization, so as to meet increasing traffic demands. In addition, you should also provide wired LAN:
Robust quality of service (QoS) - QoS bandwidth management can be enhanced to a higher priority on the network traffic can be given priority. Cisco Catalyst? LAN switches support Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 802.1p standard, which can be prioritized Ethernet traffic. In addition, Cisco also offers several other QoS features, weighted round robin sorting and strict prioritization. Switch allows administrators to specify the priority of each port. Smart client devices, including Cisco IP Phone 7960, to further ensure high-priority traffic can be given priority treatment.
Continuous network availability - LAN can make any business-critical high availability. Cisco recommends that network design should include redundant components and connections to eliminate or reduce downtime and performance degradation. When the primary uplink is interrupted, dual Gigabit uplinks can provide redundant uplink. With enhanced Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) merge function (including PortFast, UplinkFast and each VLAN Spanning Tree (PVST)), LAN switch enables redundant connections, but may increase the response time will not produce broadcast storms.
Convenient integrated Web management --Cisco to-end management solutions operate in a manner that can reduce management complexity. ? With the Cisco IOS intelligent network services, users can enhance the control of its network, because these services are not only able to provide the advanced features of IP routing, advanced QoS and security, but also allows users to take advantage of a powerful tool - Cisco Cluster Management Suite (CMS ) manages the entire LAN. Cisco CMS embedded in fixed configuration LAN switches, an IP address will be able to help our clients to view and manage multiple switches.
Security - the common infrastructure, must be limited and the protection of data and application access. Cisco stackable switches support port safety, security and access authentication and isolation between ports. Cisco security features can require end while protecting the privacy of sensitive data and sensitive network traffic, such as voice and the like.