Intranets have altered network traffic patterns. The use of LDAP, IPv6, and other technology solutions to address address control, availability, and maintenance presents challenges. Carriers, as well as enterprise IT professionals, have tough choices to make in adopting new technologies and capabilities such as RSVP, QoS, IP Tunneling, and so on. Systems and network-level management and support tools are newly vital. IT managers are increasingly focused on supporting and empowering the content development and creation process.
Content directly affects Intranet performance.
Multimedia content requires different infrastructure-level support than pure data. IT may or may not control the purchase. The convergence model of CTI, or integrated voice, video, and data, means IT and telecomm manager responsibilities start to overlap at the infrastructure level. Multicast solutions may be key to empowering Intranet communication and information distribution.