Public service means quickly meeting the demanding needs of a widespread and growing customer base as well as supporting an often mobile government employee. This requires customer-friendly electronic collaboration combined with fast and secure access to a vast and ever-increasing array of information.
Wide area networks (WANs) have always been challenged to provide the kind of rapid, secure, and easy-to-expand access both to customers and data that public service requires. Collaboration applications and security tools gobble bandwidth and delay traffic, and complex equipment can significantly increase the time necessary for network expansions, as well as consume massive amounts of funds, space, and electricity. ?>?>?>?>
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Participants will learn the principles of network design that:
Ensure system availability and security
Offer application-level services that control network and resource usage
Facilitate network expansion
Ease implementation of mobility and collaboration applications
