Implementing Cisco Networking Solutions

Networks for Digital Enterprises

"The world is changing very fast. Big will not beat small anymore. It will be the fast beating the slow."

- Rupert Murdoch

We all live in a world today where the boundaries between the physical world and the digital world are blurred. Today's world is more digital than physical, where even the machines have networking requirements. This digitization has helped create opportunities and has great promise to change our everyday lives.

In this chapter, we will discuss the following topics:

• The requirements for changing business models on the underlying network infrastructure
• The enabling technologies for digitization
• Cisco's architectural framework (Digital Network Architecture)
• Different aspects of the network ...