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Foil 37 Goal

From NPAC Computer and Network Capabilities Tango Group Internal Technology Seminars -- Spring 99. by Roman Markowski
Improve
  • security (firewalls, filtering), software protection
  • performance (bottlenecks)
  • polices: strong account-, e-mail and intellectual property policy
Support (new) technologies
  • multicast, layer 3 switching, VLAN layers 1,2,3
  • QoS, RTP, RSVP, 802.1p/q
Simplify infrastructure (maintenance and management)
  • reduce number of accounts (backdoors)
  • limit number of : protocols (TCP/IP, NetBEUI); LAN technologies (Ethernet ??); platforms (Sun , SGI, PC)
  • reduce operating systems (Windows, Solaris, Linux, Irix)
  • services (DNS, MAIL, PRINT, few HTTP, Oracle)
  • Integration Unix-Windows (account management, printing, file sharing)
  • smaller, independent groups (with common infrastructure)

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