Network Management: Managing Radical Network Changes

Bank Technology News, June, 2006 by Glen Fest

It's been six years since Cabletron Systems left the network switching/router business to the Ciscos of the world. Another dot.com-era telecom equipment maker, Bay Networks, became part of the Nortel family during the Clinton Administration. The equipment these long-gone companies sold years ago probably belongs in a museum, but some of it is still chugging along in today's banking networks.

Support is scarce, if non-existent, as IT managers struggle to track and update the crucial configurations that govern use, capabilities and security. And that's only if the administrators know what they have. Many are vexed by mystery legacy equipment inherited from a merger or after a departing network expert takes the configuration knowledge with him. Increasingly complex security and...

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