Impact of Emerging Technologies on Campus Networks

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Impact of Emerging Technologies on Campus Networks

• Time
• Powerful Resource
• Rapid Growth of supported/unsupported services
• Process management is the key

2
Growth of Connected Services

• What wasnt here 2 years ago?
• Wireless
• Smartcards
• SANs
• VPN
• Portals
• Gigabit Ethernet
• H.323 Video

• What might be here in 2 years?
• VoIP
• Terabyte disks to backup
• Ubiquitous wireless
• SIP Video Classrooms
• Telematics
• Gigabit Ethernet to desktop

3
Unwanted Growth

• Evil on the rise
• Viruses/worms
• Sophisticated active intrusions
• Denial of service
• Peer-to-Peer networks
• Legislative mandates and new regulations

• Countermeasures rise in response
• Intrusion Detection
• Incident Response
• Bandwidth management
• Anti-virus
• Anti-spam
• Paperwork and procedures

4
Process Management

• Academic computing historically ad hoc
• Procedures increasingly formal and documented
• Goals
• Improving the Customer Experience
• Guaranteeing Customer Experience

5
Managing New Technologies

• Assessment and Planning
• Testing requires a good testing environment
• Coordination the absolutely non-negotiable,
  non-ignorable, do it at all costs aspect

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Innovation Outruns Consumers

• Lowered costs of new technologies require mass
  production
• Evolutionary technologies cant be purchased in
  bulk at each step
• Products based on new technologies emerge before
  standards are set, leading to interoperability
  issues
• Penalties for early-adopters