CCNP - Can someone help me out here?

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Can someone help me out here?

Pigy

2001-09-10, 12:29 am

I don't know if this's proper to post my questions here. I am a new telecom student, and my teacher wants us to do some survey on network convergence. However, I have no idea where I could find a company or individual to conduct the survey. I think this web site might be my only hope to get the work done. Please help me out here. I really appreciate anyone who can answer my questions. Thanks a million.

Q:
Contact an organization or individual that has implemented a form of network convergence. Describe what they've done, the benefit(s) they get from it, how it works, and who supports the services (outsource vendors, internal/self support, etc). Find out what problems they encountered while implementing the solution and any areas that have been disappointing or fallen short of their expectations. This does not have to be a complex example, but should involve the transmission of voice or video over a packet data network.

Retired-Mod

2001-09-10, 3:46 am

When I speak of convergence, it means the entire network has come to the same state of ready (like a routing protocol or STP converging) so I'm a little confused by your instructor's choice of words, but if you get clarification and post your email address I'll help ya.

Yankee

Mat P

2001-09-10, 6:13 am

Pigy,
I guess what your looking for is voice/data convergance, technologies such as Voice over IP (VoIP).

I don't want to place an advert for my company but they sent out a mailshot to all customers on advantages of VoIP a short while ago, I think this link is what they sent :-
http://www.baileytelecom.co.uk/solu...data/voip.shtml

Other useful sites are :-

www.cisco.com (obviously :-))
http://www.mitel.com/products/category.cfm?c_id=21
www.avaya.com

and theres loads more if you want to search for them.

Convergance is definitley the way networking is going to go as voice/data/multimedia products all merge together.

If you need any more info just place a post in this forum.

Mat P.

Pigy

2001-09-10, 12:18 pm

To Retired-Mod,

I think my teacher wants know integration of data network and voice network. Yea, VoIP could be a great example here.

I can be reached by this email, thanks a lot.

lazy_pigy@yahoo.com

To Mat P,

Thanks for your attention and big help.
I'll spend time to find out from those links. Thanks again.

depamo

2001-09-12, 1:33 pm

At least it should give you some pretty cool pictures for your report. A Cisco study on converging all these technologies in industry today. Gives some good background on all the technologies with convergence techniques.

http://www.itworld.com/WhitePapers/...hCon/index.html

Hope this helps.

Pigy

2001-09-12, 2:33 pm

Hi depamo,

Thanks. Yes, the link certainly helps a lot for the idea. But, if there's anyone can give his/her own experience on setup their own network on network convergence, I would more than appreciate. By the way, thanks for anyone spending your time on my questions.

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