Technology has drastically changed how we do everything today. The traditional 9-5 desk job is becoming obsolete due to technological advancements that allows us to break away from the confinement of our desk. You could even be out of the country and still work easily on any project. One of the companies behind this movement is Cisco.
Cisco Systems has been attacking this ability to work from anywhere with their Borderless Network. The Borderless Network is a next-generation architecture that allows users to connect anyone, anywhere, from any device, to any resource in a secure and reliable manner.
The Cisco Borderless Network Architecture is ideal for organizations with a global workforce that is highly mobile. The architecture provides these organizations with mobility, security, medianet and Cisco EnergyWise which helps simplify operations, increase productivity, and improve operational efficiency.
The Cisco Borderless Network Architecture focuses on 4 primary areas.
Sustainability: Cisco’s Catalyst switching solutions allow for greener practices through a variety of concepts. These switches provide measureable power efficiency, reduction in energy costs, as well as in greenhouse gas emissions footprints. This is all done through Cisco’s innovative EnergyWise.
Ease of Operations: The Cisco Catalyst switches are designed to simplify LAN deployment, configuration and troubleshooting. Cisco’s switches automatically apply the right configuration based on the device connecting to the network. This helps create mobility and simplifies the network setup. Finally with the ease of troubleshooting and upgrading, operational costs can be reduced.
Borderless Security: The main concern of this form of technology is security.This means security needs to play a foundational role on the entire architecture, this comes through Cisco’s TrustSec. TrustSec capabilities include, policy-based access control, identity and role-aware networking, data integrity, and confidentiality. It also integrates Cisco’s leading security solution, Cisco Integrated Security. This provides a Layer 2 defense for mitigating man-in-the-middle attacks
Borderless Experience: To provide a true borderless experience for users, you need to provide two things. First thing, universal connectivity that is secure and reliable. Secondly video applications, video has become very popular the past few years in order to collaborate and help reduce costs. Cisco provides both of these features through its advance LAN and WLAN technology as well as its Medianet application.
The Borderless Network by Cisco delivers the solution to meet the needs of today’s work environment. The need to be connected from anywhere at any time from any device is a necessity for any competitive business to be effective.