Enhance Your Network
Optimise your network performance
While the productivity-enhancing applications that you need to deliver to users should ideally simplify their modes of communication, the demands on the network continue to increase.
From a networking perspective, CCT is agnostic. We will design, implement and support around a preferred vendor or recommend the optimised solution for you based on your stated requirements.
Below are some of the key networking topics that you might like to consider when defining a UC-enabled business. We've selected whitepapers from Cisco, HP and Avaya.
Improve Network Access Control
Avaya Identity Engines Portfolio solutions enable businesses to control who accesses a network, when, where, and how the network is accessed, and which devices will be allowed on the network.
The Avaya Identity Engines portfolio is standards-based, vendor-agnostic, scalable, easy to use and cost effective. It integrates into your current infrastructure — no need to upgrade, no matter your vendor — supporting heterogeneous networks and delivering investment protection.
Read more (Avaya Brochure: 2nd Generation Network Access Control, PDF)
Threat Management
Because nearly every company has an Internet connection, its network is opened up to potentially millions of users throughout the world. If even a small percentage of those users choose to launch attacks, they will cause considerable damage.
However, securing your network has never been more difficult or more crucial to companies’ success.This design guide explains threat management concepts and helps you plan a threat management solution that can protect your network against internal and external threats.
Read more (HP Whitepaper: Threat Management Design Guide, PDF)
802.11n Wireless Networking
With the growing demands on enterprise wireless networks, including an increase in users, a wider variety of client devices accessing the network, more mission-critical and multimedia applications traversing the network, and wireless being deployed in more challenging RF environments, 802.11n delivers the next generation of wireless connectivity.
Read more (Cisco Whitepaper: Next Generation of Wireless Networking, PDF)
Network Virtualisation
Network virtualization is a solution that allows a network administrator to create multiple isolated network partitions overlaid on top of a common physical network infrastructure. This model helps enable customers to create multiple networks, without the additional investment in hardware
Network virtualization addresses business challenges that range from simple to complex.
Simple scenarios include enterprises that want to provide Internet access to visitors (guest access).
Complex scenarios include enterprise IT departments acting as a service provider, offering network services to multiple enterprise "customers" that need logical isolation between them. What makes the solution complex is when there is an additional requirement to support shared services (for example, Domain Name System [DNS], Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol [DHCP]) across multiple customers. This requirement can also be achieved using network virtualization.
Read more (Cisco Whitepaper: Managing Network Virtualisation, PDF)
De-risk Application Deployments, Optimise Performance
Businesses rely on enterprise applications to help ensure efficient operations and gain competitive
advantage. At the same time, IT is challenged with managing application delivery in an environment that is dynamic and distributed. The number of business applications is growing, application architectures are increasingly complex, application traffic is proliferating, and traffic patterns are difficult to predict.
This demands integrated application and network visibility to successfully deliver disparate applications in a complex IT environment.
The Cisco® Network Analysis Module (NAM) suite of products offers unparalleled visibility into application and network performance to help ensure consistent and efficient delivery of applications and services to end users. It helps you to ensure consistent performance levels, optimal use of network resources, and a minimal impact on business during such undertakings.
You can also anticipate any infrastructural changes by analyzing resource usage and traffic trends. As a result, Cisco NAM helps enhance IT agility to changing business needs.
Read more (Cisco Brochure, Network Analysis Module Overview, PDF)