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Single-vendor vs. best of breed: Selecting your vendor

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Single-vendor integrated network vs. best of breed: Selecting your vendor

Steve Taylor By Steve Taylor and Jim Metzler
Last time, we began a discussion of the pros and cons of using a single vendor for your entire network infrastructure. We'll continue the "pro" side of this discussion with more comments from Ben Goldman, Cisco director of marketing, network systems, as he explains the four reasons that single-vendor networks are optimal (see the first two reasons in the last newsletter). Read full story

Steve Taylor is president of Distributed Networking Associates and publisher/editor-in-chief of Webtorials. For more detailed information on most of the topics discussed in this newsletter, connect to Webtorials, the premier site for Web-based educational presentations, white papers, and market research. Taylor can be reached at taylor@webtorials.com

Jim Metzler is the Vice President of Ashton, Metzler & Associates, a consulting organization that focuses on leveraging technology for business success. Jim assists vendors to refine product strategies, service providers to deploy technologies and services, and enterprises evolve their network infrastructure. He can be reached via e-mail.


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