Goal
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)