Support of Business SLAs in the Enterprise Network

Within the enterprise environment, I use an example to show how different technologies can be used to support business SLAs. Consider a small grocery chain. The network consists of several campuses interconnected by a wide-area network. This environment is shown in Figure 4.1. One of the campuses (campus D) is the data center of the enterprise and hosts its application servers. Campuses A and B represent the outlets of the grocery chain that access the data center for its various transactions. Campus C is the administrative office that houses the various administrative and accounting departments. Two main types of applications are deployed in this environment. One application is used to look ...

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