BRN Defined

Business Ready Networks

Businesses today demand more from their IP Network than ever before. Traditionally, Infrastructure has focused on achieving connectivity as its initial goal of networking. Now that simple connectivity has been achieved, business requirements have transcended the need for mere connectivity. IP based voice, wireless, and security represent a new breed of network-based applications that will position the infrastructure to tackle higher level complex problems and impact business productivity. The infrastructure must be advanced to a business ready level.

Until recently, the Networking Industry has treated network operations as ‘a sum of individual parts’ that have failed to operate holistically. Likewise, the same serial approach has been applied to solving business problems through the creation of individual products, uniquely designed to solve problems one at a time. These products, each with their unique design, have demanded an enormous amount of individual administration, management, maintenance, sparing, and optimization that has created challenging and expensive infrastructure.

The business ready network is one that is enabled by a truly networked system in which there is a dependency between the component parts that maintain relationships through time and change. It is a fully cooperating system that is flexible, stable, and predictable.

As a recent result of adding deterministic technologies to the IP Network, the Networking Industry has begun to take its first unified steps toward building a system of products that more fully cooperate in their mission of moving payloads across an arrangement of networks. This has forced the IP Network to evolve from route-specific performance to endpoint-to-endpoint performance, from route-level resiliency to service-level resiliency and from box-level management to system-wide management. Essentially, it is a network that is no longer comprised of connectionless, data centric islands, but a fully connected system primarily concerned with the performance of the payload that rides on this connection.

As the network is poised to take responsibility for higher-level functions, the complexity of these infrastructures, by necessity, will increase. As they do, the role of architecture, business process-mapping, policy decision making, implementation and ongoing service and support play increasingly important roles. INX has a history of working with leading vendors and businesses to intelligently deploy advanced technologies in a way that maximizes our clients’ investments. As one of the earliest entrants to VOIP integration and support, INX has successfully deployed and supported tens-of-thousands of end stations for a diverse customer base. We are a top provider of Advanced Technology solutions, both in terms of volume - the amount of these technologies deployed - and in terms of customer experience - the likelihood that you will be satisfied with your technology implementation decision. Our experience provides the ideal foundation for taking the next step toward building the business enabled network. To learn more about the three fundamental components of a Business Ready Network (BRN), click here.