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Are You Business Ready? Protect, Optimize, And Grow Your Business Through Cisco System Networking

Overview Encompassing the data center, campus, full-service branches, the WAN, and more, the enterprise network should facilitate secure communications and business processes-empowering users to attain optimal productivity and organizations to protect, optimize, and grow their business. The elements and benefits of a Business Ready systems strategy are discussed, with a focus on the foundation IP infrastructure, network system intelligence, and embedded application and storage services that make up the Cisco Business Ready Data Center. Also discussed is the increasingly important role intelligence plays in today's network infrastructures and Cisco's vision of intelligent networking.

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Publisher	Cisco Systems	File Format	PDF, requires Acrobat Rdr 5
Date Published	August 2004	Downloads	9
Format	White Papers
Topics	Wide Area Networks (WAN), Network Design, LAN - WAN Standards, Network Operating Systems, Data Center

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