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 Unified Networks |
Over the past few years applications have become both more network-centric and more complex, and now need to run across not just wired infrastructure, but on multiple classes of wireless networks (from WLAN to WWAN) as well.
Modern enterprises needs networks to be often built from many physical layers and include elements such as RFID, Bluetooth and other wireless personal-area networks (WPANs), and cellular technologies grouped under the general heading of wireless wide-area networks (WWANs). The fact that these WWANs are under the control of carriers can make their inclusion in an enterprise network solution all the more complex. Regardless, modern network-centric IT solutions will have components of personal, private, and public services as core elements.
It would be hard to imagine an application environment where the centralized-services approach would not be appropriate. Indeed, we believe that all mobile applications, including those in healthcare, education, retail, manufacturing, financial services, field service, and general enterprise applications and access will benefit from QuantM's Unified Network Solutions. Some of the key applications that have been pushing Unified networks to innovate newer technologies:
- Collaboration : A common service delivery platform allows network services to integrate with one another.
- Asset tracking and RFID : RFID is used extensively in manufacturing, logistics, transportation, retail, and many other industries.
- General enterprise applications : Enterprise solutions are increasingly being constructed so as to operate across several different networks with diverse capabilities.
That's why QuantM designs (and build and operate) network solutions built from a variety of wired and wireless components as a single unified structure.
At QuantM while designing the present day Unified networks the most common challenges that are addressed are:
- Throughput : Traffic performance will vary based on the fundamental capabilities and limitations of a given network itself, along with instantaneous loading and traffic service demands, and the ability of the network to support, via appropriate protocols and sufficient headroom, time-bounded traffic.
- Capacity : Throughput alone is an insufficient consideration in successful application deployment. As most networks will be required to support multiple users and multiple applications simultaneously, in the case of both private and carrier-based networks, we provision sufficient capacity to support successful application execution, and that services be defined to manage this variable as well.
- Availability : Not all networks will be present in all locations. The exact mix of networks cannot always be determined in advance, thus we understand and ensure that networks are designed with flexibility in mind.
- Cost : And finally, the costs associated with using different networks can also vary dramatically. This introduces the requirement for least-cost routing in terms of financial cost.
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