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An "Industrial-Strength" Internet?(Company Business and Marketing)
Business Communications Review, November, 2000 by Passmore, David
There's no question that the Internet is a tremendous network resource. But would you put all your organization's communications--voice and data--across the public Internet, or even across a typical ISP's network? Very few people would say "yes." Given today's Internet performance and security, it simply is not reliable enough to meet the demands of most enterprises.
As a result, enterprises continue to rely heavily on traditional leased lines and frame relay. Even when companies outsource the hosting of applications to ASPs, the most popular access service is frame relay, not native IP. This is despite the fact that Internet services typically cost far less on a price per unit of bandwidth basis. VPNs were supposed to address many of the...
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