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High-Performance Business Requirements
Today’s high-performance businesses demand a
high-performance network infrastructure that provides
fast, secure and reliable delivery of the applications
that drive business processes. Switches deployed in
regional offices, campuses and data centers enable
these business processes by connecting users to
applications, delivering everything from traditional
file services to telephony, messaging, presence, video
conferencing and Web services.
To fill this critical role, network infrastructure switches must:
• Be highly available to ensure uninterrupted, uncompromised delivery of
business processes in the event of failures and outages
• Support unified data, voice, messaging, presence and video
communications on a single IP infrastructure
• Integrate security functions traditionally implemented in appliances to
defend against malicious, sophisticated attacks and optimize application
response times
• Deliver operational excellence by delivering consistency and simplicity
across the infrastructure to reduce total cost of ownership
