Cisco Seminar in Minsk

On December 6, in the conference hall of the Palace of the Republic, a Cisco Systems seminar on information and communication technologies was held. The seminar was divided into three sections, in each of which, after a presentation by a Cisco representative, a discussion on issues of Belarusian specialists took place. In the first section, Veniamin Ivanov, Cisco Business Development Manager in the CIS, who worked for the company for a long time as a system engineer for centralized electronic storage, spoke about the development and implementation of storage networks. In his experience, if earlier data warehouses were simply storage devices attached to a server, now they have become full-fledged switched networks cisco voice of the engineer.

In the second section of the seminar, Cisco system engineer Mikhail Kader presented information about the company's solutions for information security technical means. Starting with the concept of information protection, which should begin with the organizational and political regulatory framework of the enterprise, Mikhail moved on to a practical methodology for ensuring security. The fact is that state standards and regulatory restrictions, such as the need for licensing cryptographic means in the SCSI, practically do not allow the use of Western secret mechanisms embedded in the supplied equipment for telecommunication networks and computer complexes. But from the inherent capabilities for identification and access control, a wide variety of security methods are successfully implemented in corporate networks. The most common technologies are filters or firewalls. In this direction, Cisco Systems offers a very wide range of tools. From embedded recognition algorithms in hardware, including modern NAC technology, to specialized security management software products such as Cisco Security Manager.

In the third section, there was a presentation of corporate IP-telephony tools produced by Cisco. A new approach to the transition to a single IP network for voice communication systems was presented by Cisco systems engineer Konstantin Gribakh. Cisco today offers the Cisco Unified System as its flagship unified communications solution. In this solution, the manufacturer has implemented a converged concept of connecting all types of communication together. The Cisco Unified System is a collection of voice, data, and video products and applications specifically designed to improve communications efficiency for businesses of all sizes. The introduction of such a technical telecommunications complex allows employees in real time and exactly at the moment when it is necessary, communicate with each other and exchange information through multimedia communication channels, for example, using a video telephony system, audio and web conferencing, an IP telephony system and various models of soft and hardware IP telephones, voice and e-mail messaging systems, facsimile communication etc. In Belarus, however, the implementation of the Cisco Unified System has not yet taken place. However, some banks in Russia and Kazakhstan already operate deployed telecommunication complexes based on the Cisco Unified System. At the same time, the policy of Cisco to promote its IP telephony solutions does not seem indisputable. It is known that when changing corporate telephony systems to new standards, 70% of success is made up of competent work with people, allowing a painless transition for business to new progressive solutions by soft migration for users. Cisco, on the other hand, does not in principle release or provide the ability to connect analog phones to its system. This is despite the fact that the existing telecommunication infrastructures of enterprises cannot be easily changed overnight. And the implementation option from Cisco is an option for a one-time purchase of a minimum of a call center with subsequent expansion. It seems that until now, evolutionary principles do not dominate revolutionary ones, even in established technical solutions. On the other hand, progress is too fast to look back. that the telecommunication infrastructures of enterprises that have been created over the years cannot be changed just like that. And the implementation option from Cisco is an option for a one-time purchase of a minimum of a call center with subsequent expansion. It seems that until now, evolutionary principles do not dominate revolutionary ones, even in established technical solutions. On the other hand, progress is too fast to look back. that the telecommunication infrastructures of enterprises that have been created over the years cannot be changed immediately. And the implementation option from Cisco is the option of a one-time purchase of a minimum call center with subsequent expansion. It seems that until now, evolutionary principles do not dominate revolutionary ones, even in established technical solutions. On the other hand, progress is too fast to look back.