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CIOs Face New Priorities

  1. Aligning IT and business goals
  2. Helping ensure business continuity and risk management
  3. Controlling IT costs
  4. Using IT to enable process improvement
  5. Improving internal user satisfaction
  6. Improving staff and leadership development and developing business skills within IT
  7. Improving project management discipline
  8. Helping ensure privacy of customer and employee data
  9. Enabling or enhancing knowledge management and using intellectual assets
  10. Helping ensure regulatory compliance

Source: Survey of 545 CIOs, CIO Magazine, 2006

A New Campus Networking Architecture has evolved to meet the demands required by customers today. Business networks in this new era must support constant and immediate interaction, which has become a priority for employee productivity. For more information view the New Design Principles for Campus Networking podcast from the Lippis Group.

As applications evolve from centralized to interactive, these networks must support both, the traditional client-server and the increasing peer-to-peer traffic flows. Emerging applications, for example Cisco TelePresence, emphasize this shift and demand for a real-time network infrastructure that is secure, application aware, and virtualized.

The Cisco Campus Communications Fabric presents a new framework for campus network evolution in which products and features work together to provide highly consistent services and policies, anywhere, anytime, and irrespective of connection type. This provides a compelling case for considering Cisco products in your network.

The Cisco Campus Communications Fabric establishes a Business Level Platform, guiding IT managers through complex considerations while expanding or planning networks—specifically, it covers:

White Papers

Lippis Report: The New Campus Networking Architecture
This report discusses how the campus network architecture is evolving from one based on logical services rather than physical components. It outlines six design principals that will transform the campus network into a business.

Campus Communications Fabric: A New Framework for Campus Network Evolution
Learn to navigate today's network evolution with the Cisco Campus Communication Fabric.

Why Cisco Network Systems?
With a focus on the places in the network, this document summarizes the integrated advantages offered by Cisco routers and switches in the Branch, Campus, and Data Center.

Is Your Network Ready for TelePresence? Cisco TelePresence, makes high demands on your network for quality of service, availability, and security. It's a good case study on what your enterprise network will need in the future, as more applications are developed that have similar performance standards.

Press Release

Apr 30th CCF Announcement

PodCast

New Design Principles for Campus Networking

Cisco Propels Networking to Business Level Platform

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