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Converged Network Design Features

Overview Designing converged networks requires a comprehensive approach using multiple technologies and engineering disciplines. The design features for a converged network incorporate the open systems interconnection (OSI) model application and shared technologies for access, transport, and logical components. For the best definition of technologies and design features, this paper refers to a concatenated version of the OSI model.

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Publisher	Lucent Technologies	File Format	PDF, requires Acrobat Rdr 5
Date Published	May 2001	Downloads	8
Format	White Papers
Topics	Network Design

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