E-mail. Web. ERP. CRM. Applications are the essential tools that help your business run better. And how well you deliver and secure these applications will greatly impact your success.

Reliable, consistent application delivery requires ample bandwidth across the network, from the core to the edge. It's also important that the switched and routed infrastructure support key features such as advanced packet classification, rate limiting, and strict and weighted fair queuing. And from a management perspective, it's critical that IT have pinpoint control over how, when and where applications are used throughout the organization.

A more secure application provisioning solution should allow you to:

• Enforce a defined policy of secure and differentiated service levels for specific users and departments within the enterprise
• Prioritize applications and services based upon who accesses them, ensuring Quality of Service for business-critical applications and services
• Assign the highest priority to the most important applications and services, and lower priority to those that are less important
• Limit or deny access to bandwidth-hungry peer-to-peer applications that also may be rights protected (e.g., Napster)

Enterasys Secure Networks™ architecture—featuring a security-enabled infrastructure, centralized command and control, and advanced security applications—provides the ideal foundation to support your ever-growing application demands. The key is the embedded security found in every component of the Secure Networks infrastructure that recognizes traffic flows at the point of entry and allows organizations to differentiate the Quality of Service available to its many end users and "flag" undesirable applications.

• Matrix™ X, Matrix and SecureStack routing and switching platforms provide flexible, scalable, feature-rich connectivity customizable to your environment
• SecureStack and Matrix platforms support multi-user and multimethod authentication to help prevent application misuse
• IT creates and deploys rules for applications and services aligned with user business requirements through NetSight management
• NetSight management accommodates organizational changes with minimal business disruption
• Secure, on-demand access of applications from any location facilitates increased productivity
• If undesirable application is accessed (e.g., peer-to-peer, Napster, etc.) end user is informed of breach and provided with steps for self-remediation, automatically.
• Backwards-compatibility of switching solutions protects existing investments while offering smooth migration to new applications and services

• Enables centrally administered policies for…
  —Differentiated access to services
  —Per-application Quality of Service
  —Efficient resource usage
  —Secured connectivity for each user
• Enhances an organization's ability to meet SLA requirements
• Ensures mission-critical business functions and prioritizes the supporting service
• Adapts to new business services and applications
• Distributed switching architecture eliminates single point of failure, lets you add capacity as you need it with no performance trade-off
• Optimum application performance even with advanced security enabled
• Most precise application provisioning—pinpoint control
• Only open architecture in the industry—leverage what you have today with no “rip and replace”
• Greater automation for simpler operation
• Fewer products to deploy and manage
• Flexible architecture dramatically reduces solution-time required for future issues
• Best total cost of ownership in the industry