Businesses operating large networks are increasingly looking for infrastructure upgrades to:
- Handle high bandwidth applications such as voice, video, and IP multicast
- Improve backbone capacity for shared Ethernet or FDDI campus backbones
- Support applications based on Novell IPX, DECnet, AppleTalk, and SNA
Example: Design Suggestions
Use Layer 2, Layer 3, or ATM backbone solutions to expand your large campus network.
In typical designs, the buildings or different parts of the campus connect together across a high performance, switched backbone. Network redundancy and high availability is provided at each layer. A high capacity, centralized server farm provides resources to the campus, and when combined with Cisco IOS, network management strategies support QoS, security, troubleshooting, and other common management features from end to end.
