Planning and Managing a Corporate Network Utility.

Author List: Hall, Wayne A.; McCauley, Robert E.;

MIS Quarterly, 1987, Volume 11, Issue 4, Page 437-449.

This paper describes the processes used by Digital Equipment Corporation in planning and managing its worldwide networks. As a corporate communications utility that has evolved into a strategic and tactical business tool, it is a critical success factor in today's business environment. It is designed with an open architecture for easy adaptability to growth and change. Descriptions of the network planning and management strategies and techniques demonstrate how DIGITAL meets its voice, data, and video requirements. This paper makes recommendations on how to plan for and manage a network utility with no disruption of day-to-day business operations.

Keywords: centralization/decentralization; Data communications; distributed applications; distributed networks; network management; pricing and resource allocation

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#231	0.264	information management data processing systems corporate article communications organization control distributed department capacity departments major user hardware cost applications expansion
#212	0.151	business digital strategy value transformation economy technologies paper creation digitization strategies environment focus net-enabled services processes insights challenges key response
#78	0.147	planning strategic process management plan operational implementation critical used tactical effectiveness number identified activities years effective developed issues empirical plans
#26	0.144	business large organizations using work changing rapidly make today's available designed need increasingly recent manage years activity important allow achieve
#249	0.096	network networks social analysis ties structure p2p exchange externalities individual impact peer-to-peer structural growth centrality participants sharing economic ownership embeddedness