Network Infrastructure White Papers

WHITE PAPER: With so much riding on the availability and performance of the network, businesses of all sizes need a reliable infrastructure that eliminates downtime and is highly efficient, and flexible to handle the challenges of ever-increasing bandwidth. Read this paper to learn what you should look for in a solution and how to choose the proper vendor.

Posted: 15 Jun 2010 | Published: 15 Jun 2010

WHITE PAPER: While many companies understand the benefits of virtualization and cloud computing, they struggle to prepare their data center for such a transition. Discover how to avoid a “rip-and-replace” approach by utilizing a phased network architecture upgrade that helps control risk and costs.

Posted: 11 Jun 2010 | Published: 11 Jun 2010

WHITE PAPER: To succeed in tough economic times, a business must be able to make strategic plans for growth while running a lean operation. The following paper presents seven primary areas where businesses can maximize IT opportunities and describes how Cisco can help build a sustainable network infrastructure to help you realize your strategic vision.

Posted: 26 May 2010 | Published: 01 May 2009

WHITE PAPER: This document describes the Green Operations and Characteristics of the Cisco® Catalyst® Series Switches. These Cisco Catalyst switch families offer the latest technologies to enable organizations to meet the green requirements of today while providing flexible architectures to address the necessities of tomorrow.

Posted: 26 May 2010 | Published: 01 Mar 2009

WHITE PAPER: Your network must deliver non-stop services to support business operations and be highly scalable to support future growth. It must also address multiple communications needs cost-effectively and flexibly. The communications network must meet the demands of a dynamic business-critical environment. Read this white paper to learn more.

Posted: 20 May 2010 | Published: 20 May 2010

WHITE PAPER: Using a simple Return on Investment (ROI) approach, enterprises can quantify the value of best-in-class connectivity. What are the tangible financial drawbacks when you experience outages or latency? How do you measure your risk and then mitigate it? This paper addresses all the factors associated with being able to calculate your own ROI.

Posted: 06 Apr 2010 | Published: 06 Apr 2010

WHITE PAPER: Borderless Networks, a Cisco® next-generation architecture for agile delivery of services and applications, delivers a new workspace experience, connecting anyone, anywhere, using any device, to any resource: securely, reliably, and seamlessly. Read this paper to learn more about the Cisco Borderless Networks architecture.

Posted: 23 Mar 2010 | Published: 23 Mar 2010

WHITE PAPER: Learn how HP is combining the best new standards-based technologies with a modular architecture that fully optimizes virtualized resources, while meeting business requirements for low total cost of ownership, faster time-to-service, and critical requirements for reliability, IT governance, and compliance.

Posted: 04 Mar 2010 | Published: 01 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: The advent of 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE), Data Center Bridging (DCB), and Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE)offers enhanced performance and throughput for connecting networked storage to servers. Whether using the Internet SCSI (iSCSI) or Fibre Channel protocols, organizations have a clear path for unifying a network fabric in 10GbE environments.

Posted: 23 Feb 2010 | Published: 01 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: Juniper Networks was founded on the vision of connecting everything and empowering everyone. Establishing a relationship with a network partner like Juniper can help IT organizations reap the benefits of cloud computing and increase network effectiveness to meet current and future technological and business requirements.

Posted: 11 Feb 2010 | Published: 11 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: Aging network systems and old habits have dictated how businesses spend their IT budgets. As a result, too many IT dollars are being spent on just barely remaining competitive with emerging companies and their newer IT infrastructures. Read this white paper to learn more about a new family of solutions that reduce IT expenses and free up budgets.

Posted: 10 Feb 2010 | Published: 10 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: Read this paper to learn about being connected building planning requires tightly integrated, well-coordinated cross-functional communication and project management across four functional phases: organizational alignment, technology strategies, network design considerations, and financial analysis.

Posted: 28 Jan 2010 | Published: 28 Jan 2010

WHITE PAPER: In this paper, you'll learn that UPI-based solutions provide superior business value, helping customers keep pace with technology innovations and build a smarter, unified business foundation.

Posted: 28 Jan 2010 | Published: 28 Jan 2010

WHITE PAPER: This paper describes how any small business can benefit from the advantages of a server-based network. Putting a fast and well-equipped server to work increases your productivity, enables smart backup and archiving, and vastly improves the security of your data.

Posted: 10 Dec 2009 | Published: 10 Dec 2009

WHITE PAPER: This whitepaper discusses the issues involved in sharing files between Macs and Windows servers and compares the options for successful integration. It is intended for systems administrators, technical evaluators and decision-makers who are considering upgrading or purchasing a Mac/Windows integration solution.

Posted: 27 Oct 2009 | Published: 27 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: This IBM white paper describes how Virtualization is an important element of a dynamic infrastructure and expands on the areas of server, storage, application, network, and client virtualization and the IBM technology and benefits from each.

Posted: 02 Oct 2009 | Published: 01 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: With so many new technologies, sticking with the status quo for your virtual network infrastructure is probably not your best option. In this month's issue, take a closer look at all the possibilities available now for interconnecting both virtual and physical networks.

Posted: 01 Sep 2009 | Published: 01 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: An understanding of the effect of factors such as resolution, frames per second, video codec, packets per second, and bit rate on bandwidth requirements will enable network operators to correctly design communications infrastructure networks that will support video applications. Read on to learn more.

Posted: 21 Aug 2009 | Published: 21 Aug 2009

WHITE PAPER: Even the smallest business can live large with a business communications system from Cisco. Why switch to a small business communications system from Cisco? Because when you combine voice, video, and data in a single network, you can cut costs and get more done.

Posted: 14 Aug 2009 | Published: 14 Aug 2009

WHITE PAPER: For small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), networks can do more than simply connect machines. They also deliver voice (telephone) and video, and connect functions such as sales and bookkeeping to make business more efficient, collaborative, and profitable. Read this paper learn about core network components and benefits.

Posted: 14 Aug 2009 | Published: 14 Aug 2009

WHITE PAPER: Juniper Networks proposes to change the current economic model of networking by delivering a new family of solutions that reduce capital and operational expenses, freeing up IT budget dollars and allowing businesses to invest in innovative technologies that will reduce the cost of doing business while improving the bottom line.

Posted: 17 Jul 2009 | Published: 17 Feb 2009

WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to learn how the Dell™ Management Console Powered by Altiris™ from SymantecTM centralizes multiple aspects of systems management into a single easy-to-use tool.

Posted: 19 May 2009 | Published: 19 May 2009

WHITE PAPER: Telephony design requires a solid understanding of the drivers for Voice over IP, corporate policies for infrastructure design, and telephone components.

Posted: 10 Dec 2008 | Published: 10 Dec 2008

WHITE PAPER: Build a basic foundation of knowledge about routers, the devices that allow you to move packets between networks, by reading this white paper.

Posted: 10 Dec 2008 | Published: 11 Oct 2008

WHITE PAPER: This white paper describes the innovative approach introduced by the Cisco MDS 9000 Family to support an end-to-end virtualized SAN environment that is flexible, secure, scalable, and mobile.

Posted: 24 Oct 2008 | Published: 24 Oct 2008