Cisco Network Design Solutions for Small-Medium Businesses

The User Desktop Environment

The most powerful routers and fastest switches can end up being of little value if the SMB's desktop environment is not configured and maintained properly to take advantage of this increasingly robust network infrastructure. If it were not for the innate desire on the part of humans to communicate in a faster, more expressive, and more graphic manner, we might not have routers, switches, or even the Internet. Thus, the front end to this communications infrastructure, whether it is an SMB's private network or the global Internet, needs to be set up, configured, and properly maintained. That front is the desktop environment, which represents all of the devices in the user work areas that connect to the network and with ...