Impact of Emerging
Technologies on
Campus Networks
Time
Powerful Resource
Rapid Growth of
supported/unsupported
services
Process management is
the key
Growth of Connected
Services
What wasn’t here 2 What might be here in 2
years ago? years?
Wireless VoIP
Smartcards Terabyte disks to
backup
SANs Ubiquitous wireless
VPN SIP Video Classrooms
Portals Telematics
Gigabit Ethernet Gigabit Ethernet to
H.323 Video desktop
Unwanted Growth
Evil on the rise: Countermeasures rise
Viruses/worms in response:
Intrusion Detection
Sophisticated active
intrusions Incident Response
Bandwidth
Denial of service management
Peer-to-Peer networks Anti-virus
Legislative mandates Anti-spam
and new regulations Paperwork and
procedures
Process Management
Academic computing historically ad hoc
Procedures increasingly formal and
documented
Goals:
Improving the Customer Experience
Guaranteeing Customer Experience
Managing New
Technologies
Assessment and
Planning
Testing – requires a
good testing
environment
Coordination – the
absolutely non-
negotiable, non-
ignorable, do it at all
costs aspect
Innovation Outruns
Consumers
Lowered costs of new technologies
require mass production
Evolutionary technologies can’t be
purchased in bulk at each step
Products based on new technologies
emerge before standards are set,
leading to interoperability issues
Penalties for early-adopters