Business video ready enterprise IP network architecture

The next generation enterprise IP network will be business video centric. Business video applications are high-bandwidth applications consuming up to 15 Mbps bandwidth per stream. In general, video applications are extremely sensitive to packet loss and require less than .05% loss rate. The real-time interactive video applications have the most demanding delay and jitter requirements of 150 ms and 10 ms, respectively. The real-time broadcast video applications have jitter target of 100 ms and delay target of 500 ms-1 s. Video-on-demand (VoD) applications can accommodate delay and jitter targets of 1 s. In order to support the adoption and convergence of various business video applications into the enterprise IP network, the enterprises need to make sure the network is business video ready. This paper examines what a business video ready enterprise IP network architecture is from the following key areas: infrastructure network design, hardware & software compliance, network resource utilization, quality of service (QoS), security for video, monitoring and service level agreement (SLA).