| Akihiko Takase | Telecommunications and Information Infrastructure Group, |
| Susumu Kikuchi | Telecommunications and Information Infrastructure Group, |
Today's enhanced competitive business environment is forcing enterprises to concentrate on their core businesses. To support this, they are splitting off the commodity functions of their business systems in order to configure a new business platform. The network infrastructure is the key component of the business platform; it can no longer be a simple IP-packet transfer system, as it is in the Internet era. Instead, it must be a sophisticated value-adding virtual networking system utilizing IP and information technologies. This paper considers the architecture of the new business platform, emphasizing the role of the network infrastructure from the viewpoint of virtual networking as a service-enabling technology. It also describes solutions for businesses to prepare for their individual future, in which each business will need advanced system engineering to adapt its core business to the new business environment it will face.
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Information & Telecommunication Systems |
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Telecomunication & Network Systems |
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The Hitachi Hyoron (Japanese Only) |
Network, Architecture, Internet, Service Provider, Telecommunication
