Directory Enabled Networks

  • Authors:
  • John C. Strassner;Fred Baker

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • Directory Enabled Networks
  • Year:
  • 1999

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Abstract

From the Publisher:Directory Enabled Networks is a completely new paradigm forleveraging the network. Current network management applications are builtusing applications and protocols designed to manage individual devices. DENis a way to manage the entire network. While networks are currently able toprovide Class of Service and Quality of Service, these services currentlyrequire manual provisioning by experienced personnel, and therefore havehigh associated cost of ownership. If these services can be centrallycontrolled and provisioned by simpler means, they can support existingapplications and new network-aware applications that require dynamic, yetguaranteed levels of service while reducing the Total Cost of Ownership. TheDMTF (desktop management task force) has a DEN working group responsible fordeveloping and finalizing the DEN specification. The DEN specification willalso have ramifications within the LDUP (LDAP replication) and policy-basednetworking working groups at the IETF.