Introducing Windows 2000 Deployment Planning
Introducing Windows 2000 Deployment Planning |
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To enhance your networking environment, consider the Windows 2000 technologies listed in Table 1.12, which can give you greater bandwidth control, secure remote network access, and native support for a new generation of communications solutions.
Table 1.12 Networking and Communications
| Feature | Description | Benefits |
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| DNS dynamic update protocol | Eliminates the need to manually edit and replicate the DNS database. | Reduces administration and equipment costs by reducing the number of DNS servers needed to support a network. |
| Quality of Service (QoS) | QoS protocols and services provide a guaranteed, end-to-end express delivery system for IP traffic. | Allows you to prioritize network traffic to ensure that critical processes are completed and data is delivered promptly and accurately. |
| Resource Reservation Protocol (RSVP) | A signaling protocol that allows the sender and receiver to set up a reserved path for data transmission with a specified quality of service. | Improves connection reliability and data transfer. |
| Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) | An ATM network can simultaneously transport a wide variety of network traffic, including voice, data, images, and video. | Unifying multiple types of traffic on a single network can dramatically reduce costs. |
| Streaming Media services | Server and tool components for delivering multimedia files over the network. | Streaming Media can dramatically reduce the cost of travel, team collaboration, and training by offering online meeting and information sharing. |
| Fibre Channel | Fibre Channel provides one gigabit per second data transfer by mapping common transport protocols and merging networking and high-speed input and output in a single connection. | Improved flexibility, scalability, manageability, capacity, and availability over small computer system interface (SCSI) technologies for demanding applications. |
| IP Telephony | The Telephony API 3.0 (TAPI) unifies IP and traditional telephony. | Developers can use TAPI to create applications that work as well over the Internet or intranet as they do over a traditional telephone network. |
For more information about Windows 2000 networking and communications features, see "Preparing Your Network Infrastructure for Windows 2000" and "Determining Network Connectivity Strategies" in this book.