Pervasive Services

What do the new breed of networked technologies like security, data management, voice and Wi-Fi all have in common? In the Business Ready Network, each one of these technologies is also a pervasively available Service, one that is available to and needed by most resources on the network. A network that provides more efficient and flexible use of the resources attached to it is one that is more closely tied to, aware of, and responsive to the needs of its applications and devices. This is the goal of the second phase of the Business Ready Network.

Today, service-level innovation baselines include; IPv6, quality-of-service (QoS), multicasting, security and management. Each of these services exists to provide an extension throughout the network that globally supports your organization’s data management, wireless, and IP Communications initiatives. Moving beyond device-level cooperation, services must be pervasive throughout the infrastructure, working as a ‘network-dial tone’ to better support and enable system-wide performance controls. Following is a brief look at some of the system-level services that will better support dynamic resource utilization, driving ‘virtualization’ at the resource level.