The Complementarity of Next Generation Networks And Virtualization Projects

"Virtualization is a huge subject and business imperative for corporates seeking to transition their datacenter and IT resources to a real time infrastructure. Virtualization projects will deliver greater business agility, responsiveness, resilience and cost benefits. But trying to achieve this with a legacy network infrastructure is as futile as turbo-charging a 1980's sports car .... "

The premise of this paper is simple enough; that there exists a natural ‘complementarity’ between the wide variety of virtualization projects (VPs) and the built-in super-versatility of Next Generation Networks (NGNs). The two technologies fit together like hand in glove to offer enterprise IT managers a fluid and dynamic Real Time Infrastructure (RTI) with the control and flexibility over their network environment that does not exist with ‘legacy’ communications and data networks.

The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate how the rich tapestry of tools and features offered by the core NGN platform enables and enhances the scope, performance and utility of any VP, thereby delivering a truly versatile real-time infrastructure (RTI) at a lower cost point than legacy networking infrastructures. We argue the case that the ‘virtualized network infrastructure’ offered by a NGN topology complements the virtualized IT environment with major operational and cost benefits whilst delivering a true RTI.

The corollary is that legacy networking technologies - Frame Relay, ATM & Fibre Channel are 20+ years old; they are out-of-time, not fit for purpose and lack the advanced feature set and cost metrics to compete with today’s NGNs for complex VPs supporting a mission-critical business goals and services.

A 'fluid and dynamic' NGN infrastructure will deliver much greater control and flexibility to your VP with:

• A secure universal, global LAN environment

• Multiple degrees of network separation for different services and applications, geographic and departmental domains - building networks within networks - 'virtualized LAN environments' we refer to interchangeably as VPLS instances

• The ability to re-prioritize total network bandwidth

• The ability to switch bandwidth up-and-down instantly to meet demands

• Switch in real time between distributed and 'virtualized' computing resources

• Business resilience - 24/7 uptime for mission-critical applications supported by robust and consistent SLAs

• A transparent 'plug-and-play' infrastructure

• Harness the power of subsets of processors or desktops

• Easily configure secure domains for remotely distributed clusters

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