Having working in the IT sector for quite some time now, I’ve always taken one thing for granted at each of the companies I’ve work for – the network.It’s only now that I’m working towards my Cisco CCNA accreditation that I’m finally realising just how much influence and power the network can provide to end users and to the business – and its always fascinating to see just how many far reaching services that can be delivered via the network, whether that’s via the internet or just within a private network.
Think about it, voice, video, data all delivered to your end device, whether it is a telephone or a computer or something else entirely different, all provided across the network. Taking this one step further, I started to think about how that impacts upon the jobs of the end user – take for example the popular television series “24”. Whilst the ultimate agent Jack Bauer is out protecting the US from terrorist attack, he has a crack team of computer engineers manipulating the network to stay one step ahead of terrorists’ next move.
Scenes shot within the CTU office shows users working with computers, connected to servers, satellites, video conferencing technologies connected via the network, and of course the infamous Cisco IP telephones with the even more infamous (thanks to
the show), ringtone, sending and receiving data across global networks to deliver data directly to mobile phones and PDA’s to the agents out in the field. All using the network and helping to provide data for the end user to turn into results. The beauty of 24 of course is that everything happens in real-time (and although CTU staff never seem to suffer with a slow connection or a blue screen of death ever), it’s a good representation of just what the power of the network can achieve and deliver.
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