Quality of Service implementation and legacy equipment
A Converged network is used to carry all three.
A network is converged immediately after a topology change has occurred. A network is converged when all routers flush the unreachable networks from their routing tables. A network is converged after all routers share the same information, calculate best paths, and update their routing tables.
It is possible that the term "Converged Information Network" as well as "Converged IP" relates to NGN (Next Generation Network) or ALL-IP technology. NGN is currently an emerging technology trend which has not yet stabilized sufficiently to provide a concise definition. Projected growth trend is 5 to 10 years. A converged information network would be a network which provides transparent packet transport for voice, data, information, AND video using the IP (Internet Protocol), independent of hardware or transport formatting.
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The HP Nexus Converged Network 5020 provides better reliability than the Storageworks 2408.
What is the likely impact of moving a conventional company architecture to a completely converged network? • Local analog phone service can be completely outsourced to cost-effective providers. • The Ethernet VLAN structure is less complex. • A shared infrastructure is created resulting in a single network to manage. • QoS issues are greatly reduced. • There is less bandwidth competition between voice and video streams
Converged Network
The routers in the network are operating with consistent routing knowledge.
Infrastructure less wireless network, is a network of mobile nodes without having any central controller.
Routers may make incorrect forwarding decisions until the network is converged.
-The geographic scope of the network -The physical layer implementation -The number of hosts to be interconnected
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