Challenges Facing Enterprises
Today's enterprise networks have evolved into advanced platforms for the delivery of business processes and applications, making them a core competitive advantage. In this environment, enterprises that pursue global strategies must deploy processes for applying networked systems, the Internet and e-commerce to its market research, product development, technical excellence, quality control, supply chain, cash flow and product distribution systems.

In Asia, companies are moving to more sophisticated and service-rich network environments that embrace the integration of Internet access and WAN environments by leapfrogging other technologies and deploying wireless LANs, VoIP telephony and assorted collaborative systems over advanced data and communications networks. H3C addresses the most common challenges facing these enterprise network deployments – stability, security, quality of service (QoS), and different bandwidth and capacity needs of different applications.

Stability - As networks expand in size and evolve to include many more IP-based applications and wireless services, business continuity is a main concern of network managers. Business continuity requires the network to be stable. Networks need to employ infrastructures that eliminate single-point failures to reduce network downtime or service interruptions for IP forwarding, multicasting and other business processes.

Security - Network security is a critical issue for IT managers. Securing vital business information and communications is key to providing a stable network that is free from hacker attacks and viruses. Endpoint admission security is a critical area where malicious and criminal intrusions typically occur, but one that many enterprises do not pay enough attention to as they deploy network-based security measures.

QoS - Enterprise networks also require strong QoS capabilities to take advantage of the benefits of converged network technologies. Network tools that can offer a QoS guarantee is essential to maintaining application and service availability and performance levels. Traditional networks with no QoS or built-in security and no hierarchy for services and users are unable to meet the requirement for a converged network.

Capacity - The trend in network design is towards converged architectures that integrate video, voice and data communications onto a single network to improve coordinated development and business control. Network support for the capacity and availability needs of different converged Triple Play applications like VoIP, wireless LANs, and video conferencing should also be able to handle flexible user and service growth without additional expenditures.

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