Asian Network Operations - Is Your Network Close to Breaking Point?

People often say that technology is expanding at the speed of light - however, our capacity to adapt to that technology seems to be expanding at a similar rate. Now, it seems that we couldn't live without the ability to video conference for free over the internet, to watch entire episodes of television programs on our computer screens, and to use mobile applications when we are on the move. However, all of thee technologies have been adopted within a relatively short space of time, while in many cases Asian network infrastructure is the same as that which was put in place at the advent of the Internet Protocol (IP). We look at our journey from then to now, and why it is critical that network integration for Asian companies is upgraded, in order to ensure smooth operations.

It sometimes seems unfathomable that the internet has only been around for half to a fifth of our lives - yet it was only in 1998 that the Internet Protocol won the race to connect LANs and WANs on a large scale. Adoption was rapid, and quickly went from being a top-line business asset, to an expected tool for daily operations. IT consultants and Asian network operations specialists were kept busy for a short time, installing the new architecture. However, the internet of 1998, when the architecture was designed, looked very different to the face of the web nowadays. It was mainly an access method for back-end systems and a way to send corporate email.

Of course, greater graphics penetration and isolated instances of video sharing and Flash graphics began popping up around the internet over the next few years. The next major challenge for network operations in Asia was IP telephony, the technology for which germinated in 2005, and was rapidly fertilized by a growing business demand for cheap voice-minutes and drastically reduced overheads. However, the development of IP telephony came off the back of a recovery from the dotcom crash of 2001, which left IT investment in an under-utilized state. In some areas, network coverage was expanded, but for the most part, it was with the same systems and materials that were put in place in 1998.

Wireless technology was heralded as the next big thing in 2007, and coincided with a rapid adoption of the internet as a video-sharing medium. There were now two new stresses that network performance monitors and information technology consultants spent their time compensating for, with limited resources. High definition video will be the next major stress on the corporate network - the potential for video conferencing is enormous, but so is the capacity that the network will need to have.

Now, in 2009, both the smaller, intra-office network, and the larger internet are a crucial part of almost all business' operations. The demands for technology are ever-growing, and as new methods are more quickly adopted, their bases become more integral to our core operations. It is now critical that Asian network operations are upgraded on a massive scale, or we risk businesses coming to grinding halts due to failing networks. It is much easier to be proactive than reactive, and if you are starting to experience slowdowns and intermittent network failures, the time to act is now.

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