Enterprise WAN Equipment?Integrated Access Device
The major points that are in "Hot Products: Enterprise WAN Equipment?Integrated Access Device" By Andrew Cray, where that by buying a integrated access device (IAD), a company can save time because corporate networkers only have one device to manage. A integrated access device (IAD) can also save you up to 30 percent buy shipping one box. A IAD combines several means of communication such as analog and digital, i.e. A T1 uplink, ISDN, and a 10Base-T Ethernet. A IAD also can use several protocols such as IP, IPX, AppleTalk, and PPP. I found the article quite informative, it seems like the people at the Vertical networks company have come up with a great idea. The time and money a company could save is very impressive. It is amazing that a offices entire IT system could be contained in one box like the Instantoffice. I did not particularly agree or disagree with the article. The article was primarily facts and figures, facts are just that facts, if you disagree with a fact your normally wrong. I did find the article quite informative and I do agree that an office could save time and money just buying and maintaining one box. This article relates to the text in that it discuses several means of communication such as analog and digital to transfer either data or voice which are disgust in chapter 4 in the book. It also talks about different means of network comunication that are mentioned in chapter 5.