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Chapter 11
Networking in SOA
Environments*
11.1 Introduction and Overview
Chapters 9 and 10 provided a survey of some (but certainly not all) broadband networking ser-
vices and technologies that can be used by architecture planners at institutions and enterprises.
ere we focused on connectivity-level technologies or physical-layer services because the actual
corporate communication disbursements track almost directly the type of physical-layer services
selected rather than the upper-layer capabilities. However, users also require a gamut of higher-
level capabilities that go beyond basic connectivity. is chapter examines how these advance ...