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IP Advantages Are Compelling, Packet Design Study Finds

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September 28, 2010

IP Advantages Are Compelling, Packet Design Study Finds

By David Sims, TMCnet Contributing Editor


Economic advantages of networks based on the Internet Protocol “have established IP as today’s communication infrastructure of choice. Compared with legacy, connection-oriented networks, IP delivers far greater resiliency and scalability at a significantly lower cost of deployment.”


So says a recent study from PacketDesign, which adds that “these benefits have resulted in the large-scale migration of mission critical applications onto an IP infrastructure. In turn, these applications have driven the requirement for ever-greater reliability and performance of the network delivering these services.”

In addition to the need for higher reliability and performance, the study found, “the adoption of applications with new demands for guaranteed service levels, such as voice/video communications, data storage and VPNs, requires a degree of predictability from the network that has been difficult to obtain with IP, given the dynamic nature of its routing.”

And it’s not just the advantages of IP which are compelling and undeniable, the distributed architecture behind IP’s preeminence is also part of what makes managing the network more of a challenge: “The growth in size and importance of IP networks has led to increased operational complexity and costs,” Packet Design (News - Alert) officials say, adding that “bubble-era, brute force solutions of indiscriminately adding bandwidth and IT personnel no longer scale in today’s more normal economic climate. Network operators and engineers need new solutions for achieving the requisite network visibility, analysis and control capabilities ... all essential elements of running a network that have been lost in the transition to IP.”

In July, TMC’s (News - Alert) Susan J. Campbell wrote that VoIP isn’t the only advantage to IP: “As companies are increasingly implementing “all-IP” environments one easily overlooked application is that of the fax machine. Fax technology is still a very important part of the business communications, yet a failure to include the technology within the IP environment can cause higher costs later.”


David Sims is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of David’s articles, please visit his columnist page. He also blogs for TMCnet here.

Edited by Erin Monda







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