
Chapter 9: Emerging Technologies
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The emerging technologies highlighted in this chapter include a mix of local
area network (LAN), metropolitan area network (MAN), and wide area network
(WAN) technologies—storage networking, Metro Ethernet, content delivery
networks (CDNs), Mobile IP, and IPv6 (Internet Protocol version 6). These
technologies support increasingly distributed and networked virtual organization
structures. They also work together with and extend the capabilities of the
advanced and foundation network technologies highlighted in the previous
chapters. In fact, together they can be thought of as a set of building blocks to be
arranged ...