Intelliden's on-demand networking architecture.

Intelliden Corp, the intelligent networking company, has unveiled its on-demand networking reference architecture built on industry standards, open technologies and best practices from customers, partners and standards bodies. Intelliden's framework, built around Directory Enabled Networks New Generation (DEN-ng), solves it is claimed, the tight integration of network and IT resources with business priorities. Intelliden's on-demand networking vision is based on autonomic principles and the following four characteristics.

* Self-Configuring. All Interact Protocol (IP) networks should dynamically recognise, provision and control every router, switch, firewall and optical device. This is currently a manual, error-prone and costly process.

* Self-Optimising. All IP networks should optimise network resource utilisation in unison with systems and computing resources and business policies to efficiently maximize resources.

* Self-Healing. All IP networks should detect improper network operations and dynamically initiate corrective action without disrupting systems, applications or computing resources.

* Self-Protecting. All IP networks should utilise policy-based security that automatically detects and responds to hostile behavior.

Comment:

The Case For On-Demand Networking There are a number of customer trends that demonstrate that the need for Intelliden's on-demand networking reference architecture has never been stronger. For starters, even the ongoing economic turbulence has not been able to slow down the growth of Internet traffic. A survey of the top 20 North American service providers found that their traffic volume has grown 289% in two years. And that Internet traffic more than doubled in the last year, from 25,000 terabytes per month to 55,000 terabytes per month. A survey of North American enterprises found that TB volume is growing over 480% from 1999 through 2003. In fact, enterprise terabyte growth is actually doubling every year.

Customer demand for fast information access continues to grow. This thirst for instant information has created a massive data wave that has fuelled the tremendous growth of numerous IP devices like DSL boxes, cable modems, routers, switches, firewalls and optics. To put this growth into perspective, by 2006 there will be over two billion IP ports in the world and virtually all of them will be manually provisioned. In order to move, manage and maintain the massive amount of terabytes across millions of IP devices, a network engineer has to manually configure each device.