Cisco makes hardware smarter

NETWORK WORLD NEWSLETTER: DENISE DUBIE ON NETWORK OPTIMIZATION
07/05/05
Today's focus: Cisco makes hardware smarter

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* Cisco's approach to the intelligent network
* Links related to Network Optimization
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Today's focus: Cisco makes hardware smarter

By Denise Dubie

Cisco's plans to add intelligent application message processing
to its network equipment could displace software vendors also
striving to deliver on the intelligent network of the future.

According to a recent report from Forrester Research, Cisco
Application Oriented Networking (AON) would equip the vendor
with better routing capabilities that could optimize application
throughput and increase transaction processing speed. AON could
provide IT managers with information on the sources and
destinations of application messages to help with IT shops'
service-level management efforts.

Cisco could also accelerate the adoption of Web services,
Forrester says, as well as help enterprise companies complete
"organic IT" initiatives. Forrester's organic IT is similar to
IBM's On Demand computing and HP's Adaptive Enterprise in that
it describes an intelligent network that can grow and shrink
based on application and end-user demands for resources.

The difference between Cisco and the software vendors is that
Cisco believes intelligent hardware will be the answer, while
the HPs and IBMs of the world see smart software as the ticket
to an automated data center. So far, when it comes to optimizing
IP-based applications such as voice and video, according to the
Yankee Group, IT customers are turning to the equipment vendors.

"Customers looking to measure call quality for voice and rolling
out video are looking to the equipment vendors," says George
Hamilton, a senior analyst with the Yankee Group. "Software
makers such as Microsoft and IBM will say the network is a dumb
routing platform and that the way to an automated data center is
by putting intelligence into the apps. Cisco has to build more
management capabilities into its gear, and the company is really
are focused on delivering that."

RELATED EDITORIAL LINKS

Q&A: Cisco's CTO on AON, data center future
Computerworld, 06/23/05
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/062305-cisco-aon.html?rl

Cisco puts focus on Web services, starting with AON
Network World, 06/27/05
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/062705-cisco.html?rl
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To contact: Denise Dubie

Senior Editor Denise Dubie covers network and systems management
for Network World. Reach her at <mailto:ddubie@nww.com>.
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maker's on how to manage wireless mobility technology from the
top down. Click here:
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