Networks for Digital Enterprises

We all live in a world today where the boundaries between the physical world and the digital world are blurred. Today's world is more digital than physical, where even the machines have networking requirements. This digitization has helped create opportunities and has great promise to change our everyday lives.

In this chapter, we will discuss the following topics:

• The requirements for changing business models on the underlying network infrastructure
• The enabling technologies for digitization
• Cisco's architectural framework (Digital Network Architecture)
• Different aspects of the network infrastructure