The internet has developed into a mass medium with a wealth of opportunities. Most companies support all important business processes by IT systems or use computers completely for the vital processes. Direct access to information is taken for granted. In addition the pressure of competition is encouraging the growth of electronic trading. Permanent access to company data is therefore indispensable and proves to be a distinct competitive advantage.

Dynamic, progressive development is therefore to be observed is all areas of information technology. This places completely new demands on the networks of the future. Modern IT infrastructures must be intelligent. Their distinguishing features are fast implementation of new applications, high availability, a large degree of flexibility and lower operating costs. At the same time they are protected against attacks.

Companies, which use intelligent network environments, integrate numerous solutions. Functions such as integrated video, voice and data transmission, multimedia presentations, mobile access and e-commerce play an important role in increasing productivity and profitability.

Solutions in the field Application Traffic Management provide web contents and applications for the user constantly, securely and quickly. They also ensure that sufficient bandwidth for critical business applications is available at any time. Users with very high bandwidth requirements can reduce the number of connections between their storage systems and computers by means of IP backbone technologies and increase throughput as well as reliability, availability and scalability. This lowers overall costs.

Server-based applications enable companies to centralise their IT systems and offer their employees and customers fast and secure access to data, services and applications. This technology has high growth potential in terms of productivity and cost effectiveness.

There is also a growing trend in the direction of convergent services such as Voice Over IP or video conferencing. This means not only convergence between voice and data, but between communication media such as voicemail, e-mail, fax and messaging. They make it necessary to realise voice and data applications in one network.

A well thought-out storage concept is required for the virtualisation of large quantities of data and constant, transparent access to this. More and more data have to be administered and managed in an increasingly short time.

The COMPUTERLINKS Group cooperates in the field of e-business with manufacturers such as ADIC, Avocent, Citrix, Comtrol, Neoware, Packeteer, Radware, ThinPrint, VXL and LANDesk.