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Together Again: The New Voice and Data Network Effectively Managing Enterprise Network Transformation with Change Management Solutions

Summary:

Driven by a confluence of technology and business trends, enterprise networks are today in the midst of a period of fundamental change. Now, five to eight years after the last surge in network investment, in preparation for Y2K, companies are overhauling their network infrastructure to carry heavy volumes of voice and data traffic. The switch to VoIP is a main catalyst for network enhancement — although many organizations' networks are not ready to handle mission-critical VoIP applications, as well as MPLS, managed router services, Power Over Ethernet and WiFi networking.

Given the imminent high levels of voice and data traffic that will be loading enterprise networks, optimizing their performance has never been a greater imperative. Across the broad range of today's key technology trends and business drivers influencing enterprise network development and performance, a common requirement emerges: complete knowledge of the infrastructure is absolutely necessary. No network can be transformed, nor can any efficiencies be gained, without knowing the exact state of the network.

Visionael Corporation provides a solution set of network change management products and services that can help enterprises through each step of network transformation, reducing the risk of deploying new infrastructure in three ways by:

Providing an extremely granular, visually presented inventory of all network assets, which can by updated as dynamically as change occurs on the network.
Delivering a framework for managing network change that helps ensure success as key applications such as VoIP are piloted and rolled out across the larger enterprise.
Offering, after network discovery and change, ongoing lifecycle management by continuously auditing the state of the network.

Visionael Network Resource Manager (NRM) ensures the successful planning, roll-out and ongoing maintenance of essential business processes. Across the network lifecycle, it addresses five key phases — Discover, Design, Deploy, Provision and Operate — and, in doing so, mitigates the risk inherent in managing today's combined voice and data networks.