Summary
Core network technology is relatively mature with good performance
Cost-effective IP metro technology is emerging with possible deployment coming soon
Solving data center performance, reliability and security problems is critical to achieve high performance, highly reliable, highly secure end-to-end session operations
Best-effort web switching provides 1st line of performance and reliability improvement for data center web operations
Application-enabled switching may create a new era of how application information performance, survivability, and security could be optimized in a simplified integrated service architecture environment
- Enable broad applications in Internet, wireless, and optical networking areas
- However, implementation and technologies for application-enabled switches remain to be challenging tasks