Secure Access and Connectivity: Securely access network services from wired and wireless devices across different locations. Protect data and traffic against external and internal threats. Control access to corporate resources based on user identity. Meet regulatory compliance needs in protecting customer records and identity.
Business Continuity: Maintain the highest availability of data, applications, and services on the network. Minimize costs associated with network downtime. Meet or exceed regulatory compliance with disaster recovery and data replication.
Service and Application Delivery: Provide consistent delivery of services and applications over the network regardless of user location. Prioritize delivery based on content and application. Improve customer experience and user productivity.
Automated Management: Utilize policies, diagnostics, and provisioning to automate the process of monitoring, managing, and maintaining the network infrastructure and traffic. Reduce the need for manual inspection and intervention.
Infrastructure Consolidation and Utilization: Improve the utilization of the network components through consolidation, partitioning, and dynamic provisioning, to support investment protection and lower operating expenses. Incorporate infrastructure virtualization to reduce physical redundancy while preserving functional redundancy.
Communication Convergence and Real-Time Collaboration: Enhance the integration of data, voice, and video on the network to support telephony, unified messaging, and rich media conferencing needs. Enhance user interaction and the ability to share content, applications, and tools at any time, from any location. |