Sample Planning Worksheets
Sample Planning Worksheets |
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To enhance your networking environment, consider the Windows 2000 technologies listed in Table A.8, which can give you greater bandwidth control, secure remote network access, and native support for a new generation of communications solutions.
Table A.8 Networking and Communications
| Feature | Role of this feature within my organization |
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| DNS dynamic update protocol
Eliminates the need to manually edit and replicate the DNS database. |
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| Quality of Service (QoS)
QoS protocols and services provide a guaranteed, end-to-end express delivery system for IP traffic. |
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| 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. |
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| Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM)
An ATM network can simultaneously transport a wide variety of network traffic, including voice, data, images, and video. |
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| Streaming Media Services
Server and tool components for delivering multimedia files over the network. |
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| Fibre Channel
Fibre Channel provides data transfer at one gigabit per second by mapping common transport protocols and merging networking and high-speed input and output in a single connection. |
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| IP Telephony
Telephony API 3.0 (TAPI) unifies IP and traditional telephony. |
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.