NETWORK WORLD NEWSLETTER: STEVE TAYLOR AND JOANIE WEXLER ON WIDE AREA NETWORKING 09/09/04 Today's focus: Operational efficiency wins
Dear [EMAIL PROTECTED], In this issue: * In example of operational efficiency, GDC puts legacy ��protocols onto new networks * Links related to Wide Area Networking * Featured reader resource _______________________________________________________________ This newsletter is sponsored by SBC Dialing for Dollars CRATE & BARREL'S VOIP MOVE NETS SAVINGS AND FLEXIBILITY An apples-to-apples comparison showed that a centralized, software-based, IP-based platform could provide significant cost savings and productivity benefits over a comparable, traditional PBX system. Download whitepaper now, click here http://www.fattail.com/redir/redirect.asp?CID=79139 _______________________________________________________________ NETWORK WORLD SPECIAL REPORTS NOW AVAILABLE Focused reports on compelling industry topics, Network World Special Reports are available online at Network World Fusion. Network World Special Reports on IP Telephony Security, the State of Wireless LANs, trends in the networked world and more are currently available. Download any or all of our Special Reports at: http://www.fattail.com/redir/redirect.asp?CID=79666 _______________________________________________________________ Today's focus: Operational efficiency wins By Steve Taylor and Joanie Wexler In recent articles, we've seen that protocol efficiency seems to have diminished in importance and has given way to multiple other issues. Take, for example, some interesting products recently introduced by General DataComm that would have totally defied all logic a few years ago. These products are designed for transporting legacy asynchronous and synchronous traffic over Ethernet and IP. With GDC's new SpectraComm ADT and SDT products, any older equipment that is not IP-enabled can be connected over an Ethernet and IP backbone. This is especially attractive in industrial environments, where process-control equipment has a considerably longer life cycle than your typical PC. The ADT products are designed for transporting asynchronous traffic, while the SDT transports byte-synchronous High-level Data Link Control (HDLC) and Synchronous Data Link Control (SDLC) traffic. Additionally, contact closures can be monitored for telemetry applications. >From a bandwidth-efficiency perspective, this is a bit curious. You're taking traffic from protocols like SNA and even frame relay that were designed to be quite efficient. Then you're putting that traffic into an overhead-heavy IP packet. And then you're putting that information into an Ethernet frame. So you end up with a two-ounce candy bar in five pounds of packaging. Nevertheless, this is quite attractive in today's environment. LAN bandwidth is already almost free, and WAN bandwidth is getting much less expensive. And legacy equipment, having been optimized for an earlier time, uses a relatively low amount of bandwidth - to the extent that the vast majority of the legacy traffic almost becomes background noise on current nets. What's much more important is that the current data network can be used to transport the legacy traffic along with current applications, obviating the need for separate nets. RELATED EDITORIAL LINKS General DataComm SpectraComm SDT and ADT http://www.gdc.com/products/prod_ip.shtml WAN optimization on the rise Network World Network Optimization Newsletter, 06/01/04 http://www.nwfusion.com/newsletters/accel/2004/0531netop1.html _______________________________________________________________ To contact: Steve Taylor and Joanie Wexler Steve Taylor is President of Distributed Networking Associates and Publisher/Editor-in-Chief of Webtorials.Com. For more detailed information on most of the topics discussed in this newsletter, connect to Webtorials.Com <http://www.webtorials.com/>, the first Web site dedicated exclusively to market studies and technology tutorials in the Broadband Packet areas of Frame Relay, ATM, and IP. He can be reached at <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Joanie Wexler is an independent networking technology writer/editor in California's Silicon Valley who has spent most of her career analyzing trends and news in the computer networking industry. She welcomes your comments on the articles published in this newsletter, as well as your ideas for future article topics. 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