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Convergence: Preparing the enterprise network protecting investments with the HP procurve adaptive EDGE architecture

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Overview This paper is designed to help customers prepare for convergence by looking at trends, business needs and technical advantages that optimize their networks to carry voice, video and data traffic over one Ethernet/IP infrastructure. HP ProCurve solutions offer unparalleled traffic prioritization to provide traffic type coexistence and quality of service (QoS) functions that virtually eliminates the need for custom network design architectures while ensuring support of current and future voice, video and content delivery applications. Equally important, HP ProCurve delivers data, voice and video connectivity over an affordable and easy-to-manage infrastructure.

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Publisher	Hewlett Packard	File Format	PDF, requires Acrobat Rdr 5
Date Published	January 2003	Downloads	6
Format	White Papers
Topics	TCP - IP

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