New techniques are needed to manage QoS across a set of independent management domains. This session will examine several options for solving a challenging management problem. This track will examine some of the greatest challenges facing administrators and planners today. The good news is that there is a growing number of options. The bad news is that there are many choices to consider and evaluate.
Advocates debate the best way to manage traffic effectively.
Learn how vendors are offering carriers the promise of more dynamic and scalable networks, and how carriers in turn are promising network managers unparalleled flexibility. As firms move from the glass house of legacy IT to the collocated data centres of the Internet economy, it becomes increasing critical to build for performance, availability, security and scala-bility. The emerging data centre environment consists of myriad providers offering a variety of services alongside sophisticated infrastructure equipment that helps to mitigate the best-effort nature of the Internet. Data centre developments are fraught with peril and complexity. The Internet Data Centre Track will give you the background to understand the issues and make pragmatic decisions about technology and implementation.