Manufacturing Industry
Cisco promoting "intelligent" IT networks.(INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY)
Manufacturing Business Technology, March, 2006
Cisco Systems' strategy for staying atop the networking-gear market revolves around building "intelligent" devices. That became apparent late last year with the unveiling of the Cisco service-oriented architecture, or SONA, model. According to Cisco, SONA offers a means of embedding the functionality needed to run an IT network--such as the ability to manage security, compress and cache data, and balance processing loads--inside devices such as routers and switches. Currently, these tasks are handled by server-based software.
Analysts say SONA, as well as Cisco's application-oriented networking model, differentiates the vendor in a competitive market. "If they merely continue shipping boxes, they're in the mode of selling a commodity," says Rick Sturm of...
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