In the current business climate, organizations are looking for ways to enhance customer relationships, accommodate a mobile workforce, and increase productivity. In addition,companies are looking for ways to integrate emerging technologies like wireless, virtualization,video, unified communications, and a vast number of application-level business solutions into their enterprise. These challenges create the need for a more flexible and dynamic network architecture.
Cisco has taken a holistic approach by creating three architectures that combine to create a network that addresses such challenges: Borderless Networks, Collaboration, and Data Center/Virtualization architectures.