Business Environments

The high-level policies within the network reflect the business needs that motivate the deployment of a specific technology. An organization's business needs include items such as the services it provides to its customers, its internal requirements for smooth operation, or compliance with any regulatory or legal statutes that might apply to that organization.

The business needs of each organization depend on the organization's nature and characteristics. In order to study these business needs, we will look at three types of organizations, each with a different set of networking needs: an enterprise, a networking services provider, and an application hosting services provider. The enterprise environment is a corporation with ...

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