Proceedings of IEEE Enterprise Networking Mini-Conference (ENM-97) in conjunction with ICC 97

The design of an enterprise network security system presents a great challenge because of the complexity of networking environments and variation in design objectives. The design of a high performance and manageable enterprise network security system presents an even greater challenge. Such a system, however, would not only reduce the overall cost of system administration and user management, but ... View full abstract»

We address the problem of integrating proprietary managed technology in a corporate TMN system by using TMN-based platforms support facilities. A prototype that integrates a proprietary managed PDH network in a fully TMN corporate management system has been designed and developed using three different TMN platforms in parallel: Solstice Enterprise Manager, NetView/6000 TMN Support Facility and Ope... View full abstract»

New networking protocols and encoding techniques are making possible the use of distributed multimedia applications in enterprise networks. However, these flows remain very sensitive and have to be handled by more efficient mechanisms in the network. ATM provides adequate service categories to this end but, to provide these applications with a convenient level of QOS, a large amount of resources h... View full abstract»

A mobile computer supported cooperative work (CSCW) environment is a natural setting for the integrated management of enterprise networks. This allows the sharing of scarce management expertise. The infrastructure for such systems is likely to proliferate soon, thanks to the rapid growth in mobile data communication systems. But these systems have severe bandwidth restrictions and have limited bat... View full abstract»

The introduction of ATM technology in the customer premises is being propelled by the need for a seamless interconnection between the end subnetworks. We determine the end-to-end performance of internetworked asynchronous ATM LANs and internetworked integrated services ATM LANs by using a simulation based approach. The internetworked asynchronous ATM LANs are considered to be comprised of IEEE 802... View full abstract»

Recent advances in high performance computers and high speed broadband networks have opened the realms of exciting new enterprise wide multimedia applications. Broadband multimedia applications over enterprise networks requires appropriate communication protocols and enhanced networking infrastructure to provide sufficient quality of service. Our paper presents an architecture of a communication s... View full abstract»

This paper presents a framework for managing customer networks using the Web technology. This framework extends the current Web technology which is being used for transferring various information on the Internet to those which can be used to transfer management requests and replies as well as traps and event notifications. A Web browser is used as a universal user interface for monitoring and cont... View full abstract»

Although many network battles are won by information systems (IS) engineers/managers and their favorite networking vendor, the war rages on. As outlined by Dr. Peter Newman (see IEEE 21st Conference on Local Computer Networks, 1996) the world can be divided into two major networking group. The network socialists and the network capitalists. According to Dr. Newman, the network socialists want shar... View full abstract»

We propose the service node system (SNS) with a three-layered architecture which consists of information transport layer (ITL), distributed association layer (DAL) and service control layer (SCL) in order to effectively accommodate various new services as well as the existing services based on broadband networks. We also propose a service platform functional structure with service protocols that c... View full abstract»

The wireless private branch exchange (PBX) system is considered as a wireless extension to enterprise networking. In a WPBX, several base stations are connected to the PBX, and the PBX is then connected to the public switched telephone network (PSTN). Since only a small number of lines are expected to be busy at the same time, the capacity (number of the external lines) between the PBX and the PST... View full abstract»

We introduce a seamless massaging system for the management of personal messages. The aim of it is to intercept, filter, interpret, and deliver multi-modal messages (voice, fax, and/or e-mail messages). Messages are delivered to the recipient regardless of their target messaging device. Seamless messaging involves finding the person (if urgent) and delivering the information to them on their cellu... View full abstract»

We discuss the trend in integrating management systems and resources in order to achieve real business needs. We discuss why these demands come around, the solution proposed based on the System for the Integration of the Supervision (SIS) platform and how it is dealing with these requirements. The initiative represented by the current work has several impacts both in business and in the technical ... View full abstract»

This paper discusses emerging directions of enterprise networks (ENs). Technological, policy-related, and architectural viewpoints are used to discuss the evolution of the ENs. Various phases of life-cycle of the ENs are then reviewed. An integrated, reliable, high bandwidth, scalable and multimedia transport net based architecture is envisioned for next generation ENs (NGENs). The users of NGENs ... View full abstract»

This paper presents a set of analyses that start from the business goals of the enterprise and map them to a set of technical network design requirements (as well as a corresponding set of applications requirements) as well as verifying the correctness of the derived architecture. To do this, one must start by interviewing key business and technical decision makers to understand their drivers, the... View full abstract»

The new trends in the service area cause a change on the service providing architecture and scheme. The most obvious differences are multimedia services and multiparty communications. The existing service providing schemes can hardly catch up with these new trends. A few years ago, multimedia service was not applicable to the public networks, because of the shortage of transmission bandwidth. Nowa... View full abstract»

This paper focuses on identifying issues in the emerging segment of the market referred to a extranet. The motivations for extranet are discussed along with the general requirements in extranets. Issues relating to security, addressing, and connectivity are identified. The paper discusses commonly used extranet configurations and identifies the need for carrier provided extranet services View full abstract»