{"title":"Planning enterprise networks to meet critical business needs","authors":"M. Weinstein","doi":"10.1109/ENM.1997.596865","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ENM.1997.596865","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a set of analyses that start from the business goals of the enterprise and map them to a set of technical network design requirements (as well as a corresponding set of applications requirements) as well as verifying the correctness of the derived architecture. To do this, one must start by interviewing key business and technical decision makers to understand their drivers, their views of the role of technology in the enterprise, and their views of each other and their roles in the decision making process. In many cases this may in fact, be the first time that the business and technical management have had a formal discussion or interchange about enterprise networking. Following these interviews, a six step process can be followed to derive both an enterprise architecture and the products and services necessary to implement it: (1) determination/quantification of key business drivers and goals; (2) determination of networked applications supporting the business goals; (3) network requirements quantification; (4) network architecture development; (5) product and service selection; and (6) verification of the design. This paper focuses on why and how to link enterprise network requirements to core business needs and provides an overview of key analyses for determining enterprise network requirements. These analyses lead to the successful deployment of an enterprise network that truly supports the enterprise rather than simply connecting it.","PeriodicalId":357045,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of IEEE Enterprise Networking Mini-Conference (ENM-97) in conjunction with ICC 97","volume":"282 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122952224","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An integrated multimedia communication system for enterprise networks","authors":"B. Maaref, S. Nasri, P. Sicard","doi":"10.1109/ENM.1997.596870","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ENM.1997.596870","url":null,"abstract":"Recent advances in high performance computers and high speed broadband networks have opened the realms of exciting new enterprise wide multimedia applications. Broadband multimedia applications over enterprise networks requires appropriate communication protocols and enhanced networking infrastructure to provide sufficient quality of service. Our paper presents an architecture of a communication system for manufacturing multimedia applications. The architecture guarantees better quality of service for real-time multimedia applications. It is based on an ATM intelligent network interface board based on a processor and a field programmable gate array components. The board implements flexible high-level real-time data services and relieves the host from networking load. The board implements a manufacturing message specification (MMS) multimedia application service element.","PeriodicalId":357045,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of IEEE Enterprise Networking Mini-Conference (ENM-97) in conjunction with ICC 97","volume":"172 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124181342","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Next generations enterprise networks: architectures, challenges, policies and technologies","authors":"B. Khasnabish","doi":"10.1109/ENM.1997.596864","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ENM.1997.596864","url":null,"abstract":"This paper discusses emerging directions of enterprise networks (ENs). Technological, policy-related, and architectural viewpoints are used to discuss the evolution of the ENs. Various phases of life-cycle of the ENs are then reviewed. An integrated, reliable, high bandwidth, scalable and multimedia transport net based architecture is envisioned for next generation ENs (NGENs). The users of NGENs would have more direct control over the configuration and quality of service they subscribe to.","PeriodicalId":357045,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of IEEE Enterprise Networking Mini-Conference (ENM-97) in conjunction with ICC 97","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129503208","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
H.C.M. Andrade, A. Loureiro, J. Nogueira, C. Machado
{"title":"Towards service management with the SIS distributed platform","authors":"H.C.M. Andrade, A. Loureiro, J. Nogueira, C. Machado","doi":"10.1109/ENM.1997.596876","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ENM.1997.596876","url":null,"abstract":"We discuss the trend in integrating management systems and resources in order to achieve real business needs. We discuss why these demands come around, the solution proposed based on the System for the Integration of the Supervision (SIS) platform and how it is dealing with these requirements. The initiative represented by the current work has several impacts both in business and in the technical areas. The solution implemented could meet and fulfill the initial objectives of automating completely the most important service requests of a telecommunication services provider in a fast and reliable way.","PeriodicalId":357045,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of IEEE Enterprise Networking Mini-Conference (ENM-97) in conjunction with ICC 97","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123902043","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Use of multilevel traffic contracts for admission optimization of multimedia connections in enterprise networks","authors":"A. Marefat","doi":"10.1109/ENM.1997.596873","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ENM.1997.596873","url":null,"abstract":"New networking protocols and encoding techniques are making possible the use of distributed multimedia applications in enterprise networks. However, these flows remain very sensitive and have to be handled by more efficient mechanisms in the network. ATM provides adequate service categories to this end but, to provide these applications with a convenient level of QOS, a large amount of resources have to be allocated. The drawback of this method is the limitation of the number of connections accepted by the network. In addition, variations in the charge of the network can not be taken into account once a connection has been established. To deal with this problem multilevel modeling of QOS and traffic contract is proposed. At the first stage such a model enhances the probability of the call acceptance. At the second stage, dynamic mechanisms to adjust (manage) connections, rather than renegotiating them, could be built into these models, to take into account the global charge in the network. Such a mechanism is proposed to optimize the interconnection capacity in enterprise networks. The world of enterprise teleworking is changing. Applications, such as collaborative and distance working, need to be offered different quality of service (QOS) for the duration of the session. The result of this evolution is a higher level of requirements in the transmission and processing capacities. Furthermore, more efficient mechanisms are needed to achieve a higher degree of performance, to reduce the cost of these new services. Reservation is one solution to offering a convenient level of QOS to multimedia applications.","PeriodicalId":357045,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of IEEE Enterprise Networking Mini-Conference (ENM-97) in conjunction with ICC 97","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114451939","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Extending the corporate intranet","authors":"S. Prakash","doi":"10.1109/ENM.1997.596867","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ENM.1997.596867","url":null,"abstract":"This paper focuses on identifying issues in the emerging segment of the market referred to a extranet. The motivations for extranet are discussed along with the general requirements in extranets. Issues relating to security, addressing, and connectivity are identified. The paper discusses commonly used extranet configurations and identifies the need for carrier provided extranet services.","PeriodicalId":357045,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of IEEE Enterprise Networking Mini-Conference (ENM-97) in conjunction with ICC 97","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130108718","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Performance and manageability design in an enterprise network security system","authors":"Jingsha He","doi":"10.1109/ENM.1997.596874","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ENM.1997.596874","url":null,"abstract":"The design of an enterprise network security system presents a great challenge because of the complexity of networking environments and variation in design objectives. The design of a high performance and manageable enterprise network security system presents an even greater challenge. Such a system, however, would not only reduce the overall cost of system administration and user management, but also enhance the effectiveness of the security mechanisms due to the decrease in the number of mistakes that the security system administrators might make. Systems too complex and too cumbersome to manage achieves only part of the objectives for an enterprise network security system at best. We present the design of an enterprise network security system developed in MCI to protect network elements from user access in which performance and manageability are among the most important criteria that measure the success of the development. We describe the environment, the requirements and the design considerations as well as the mechanisms used in the design and development to achieve the objectives. A number of specific design decisions are discussed that help make the security system easier to manage and, at the same time, improve the performance of the security operations.","PeriodicalId":357045,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of IEEE Enterprise Networking Mini-Conference (ENM-97) in conjunction with ICC 97","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132649146","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A study on a common service-providing architecture for future telecommunications","authors":"Sun-Moo Lang, Hyun-Sook Lee, Bu-Ihl Kim, Y. Cho","doi":"10.1109/ENM.1997.596866","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ENM.1997.596866","url":null,"abstract":"The new trends in the service area cause a change on the service providing architecture and scheme. The most obvious differences are multimedia services and multiparty communications. The existing service providing schemes can hardly catch up with these new trends. A few years ago, multimedia service was not applicable to the public networks, because of the shortage of transmission bandwidth. Nowadays, the transmission capabilities of the public networks have been continuously changing. Moreover, developing ATM technology is the most powerful driving force towards a B-ISDN era. The essential components which constitute the traditional schemes have been defined in the characteristic categories of transmission, terminal and switching. We define an additional component for the new B-ISDN services on public networks. We proposed a service-providing architecture to be implemented on an ATM-based switching system as a uniform service platform called service node system (SNS) for public telecommunication networks. The SNS will provide a high degree of efficiency for providing a variety of new services on ATM based telecommunication networks. We define various functions of the architecture and describe interaction schemes among its function modules. Also, some performance issues, such as network grade of service, and signalling transfer delay are considered in an attempt to verify the usefulness and the adequacy of the proposed architecture.","PeriodicalId":357045,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of IEEE Enterprise Networking Mini-Conference (ENM-97) in conjunction with ICC 97","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127496730","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cooperative management of enterprise networks in a mobile environment","authors":"P. Ray, M. Fry, B. Khasnabish","doi":"10.1109/ENM.1997.596878","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ENM.1997.596878","url":null,"abstract":"A mobile computer supported cooperative work (CSCW) environment is a natural setting for the integrated management of enterprise networks. This allows the sharing of scarce management expertise. The infrastructure for such systems is likely to proliferate soon, thanks to the rapid growth in mobile data communication systems. But these systems have severe bandwidth restrictions and have limited battery power on mobile terminals. Therefore, many of the standard client-server applications are not suitable for a mobile environment. However, the mobile environment offers a potentially useful facility in terms of broadcasting that allows multiple experts to work together with out adding any significant overhead on the communication and computing infrastructure. This paper analyses the requirements for supporting CSCW management applications in a mobile environment.","PeriodicalId":357045,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of IEEE Enterprise Networking Mini-Conference (ENM-97) in conjunction with ICC 97","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130015151","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"End-to-end performance evaluation of internetworked ATM LANs","authors":"V. Mirchandani, D. Everitt","doi":"10.1109/ENM.1997.596872","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ENM.1997.596872","url":null,"abstract":"The introduction of ATM technology in the customer premises is being propelled by the need for a seamless interconnection between the end subnetworks. We determine the end-to-end performance of internetworked asynchronous ATM LANs and internetworked integrated services ATM LANs by using a simulation based approach. The internetworked asynchronous ATM LANs are considered to be comprised of IEEE 802.3 LAN end subnetworks. A study to determine the performance sensitivity of the end subnetworks to internetworked LAN traffic is carried out. We further demonstrate the feasibility of providing interLAN telephony service integrated with asynchronous services in internetworked ATM LANs. This entails the implementation of a crucial technique, which we have developed in the interworking units so as to segregate the voice data from the asynchronous data. A great demand exists in enterprise networks for providing interLAN telephony integrated with asynchronous data service. The end subnetworks considered in the case of the integrated services homogenous ATM LANs are IEEE 802.5 LANs, whereas the end subnetworks considered in the case of heterogenous integrated services ATM LANs are IEEE 802.5 and the standardised 802.9a (isoEthernet) LANs. A significant issue addressed in this case is the internetworking of the packet based IEEE 802.5 LAN to the 802.9a LAN.","PeriodicalId":357045,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of IEEE Enterprise Networking Mini-Conference (ENM-97) in conjunction with ICC 97","volume":"137 2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131388011","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}