When you buy a switch, you are buying--and buying into--the switching vendor's architecture. In other words, you are adopting as your own that switching vendor's concept and strategy for how business should be conducted.Know what kind of strategic decisions are you making when you purchase a given vendor's switch. Learn the four categories of switching architecture and the strategic decisions network managers make when they buy them.

1. Switching Is Strategic
to Your Business
Berna Devrim
Interop Las Vegas
May 1, 2008
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