NTT and Cisco offer hybrid work solutions that lay the foundation for the future of work

2022.12.16

NTT and Cisco offer hybrid work solutions that lay the foundation for the future of work


In the face of changing office production needs of customers and employees, the IT team of the enterprise should not only provide corresponding tools, but more importantly, build an IT infrastructure that can better adapt to the relevant needs from the overall situation.

The way we work is entering a new normal. With the sudden rise of remote work, people are rethinking how businesses and teams should conduct business activities without the ability to hold face-to-face meetings. Organizations across industries are looking to break through the status quo, from implementing flexible working to ensuring a safe return to work. While the process is challenging, it also presents us with an unprecedented opportunity to radically break down the constraints of the workplace and fundamentally improve the way people work. What awaits us in the future is the new hybrid workplace.

At the same time, NTT also found that in the face of changing office production needs of customers and employees, the IT team of the enterprise should not only provide corresponding tools, but more importantly, build an IT infrastructure that can better adapt to the relevant needs from the overall situation. This will involve the following aspects:

1) Overall planning and construction of collaborative communication system and related tools;

2) Infrastructure network construction and flexible capacity expansion to support mobile flexible office;

3) Overall security maintenance and management construction to ensure the security of important information assets and the smooth operation of infrastructure.

Through years of industry cultivation, NTT has joined hands with Cisco, a leading solution manufacturer, to provide corresponding solutions for the ongoing industry change of hybrid work.

Collaborative communication system

In recent years, Cisco has continued to update and evolve its collaborative communication solutions, and in response to the current hybrid work trend, its video and voice fusion solution can achieve complete integration of audio and video communication based on Cisco's own control platform. At the same time, it can seamlessly integrate Cisco's platform solutions with many public cloud SaaS services (Feishu, Tencent Meeting, Zoom, etc.) based on standard protocols, so that customers and their partners can achieve on-demand collaboration anytime, anywhere while maintaining their own usage habits and communication quality.

SDWAN solution

企业对于灵活的混合办公模式需要用更灵活可控的基础网络服务进行支持。NTT基于思科SDWAN广域网技术,实现客户对于网络底层架构的灵活可控,同时兼具高可用性与安全性。思科SDWAN能够实现对于高层应用数据的智能路由,可以轻松实现对于延时敏感数据的通讯质量保障,同时也能够实现对于非核心业务的传输经济性保障。

Cisco SDWAN是新一代的广域网架构,利用软件定义的方法来架构广域网 (WAN)。这种新方法提供的优势在于减少运输成本,简化部署操作,提高应用程序的灵活性和性能。

SDWAN技术通过调节数据传输路径,例如通过更具性价比的互联网线路而不是高成本如MPLS的链接来传输业务数据,从而实现成本的长期可控优化。虽然传统架构可以利用这些链接,但是传统广域网技术并无法提供关键业务针对互联网线路的有效的质量监控、延时控制以及整体优化。现在,利用低成本的链路可以使用SDWAN这样的软件定义的方法来实现。

由于SDWAN技术通过抽象建模的方法实现多种层面的管理,包括虚拟链路的控制层面管理以及传输层面的控制优化,同时通过最佳实践的模板与自动化部署使得在广域网传输的降本增效成为可能。SDWAN技术一旦完成规划并且开始部署,将成为一个流程化的可以轻易复制的模块化管理手段,能够实现更敏捷的业务就绪工作,实现快速的网络初始化部署、扩容部署,达成在对网络应用与基础架构最低限度影响的同时按需调整网络基础架构的运维需求。

基于SDWAN的应用感知路由技术,能够实现网络自愈这一传统网络路由协议无法实现的功能。这一功能不但可以提升网络终端用户的使用体验,同时还为客户提供了前所未有的精细化管理广域网的能力。

SDWAN解决方案还能够提供对于云应用访问的安全性保障与使用体验优化,能够提供网络的精细化隔离,从而改变传统网络结构中云应用对外访问流量仍需回流到总不汇聚节点而产生的额外带宽消耗与延时带来的额外成本和体验降级,同时对于流量访问的安全性也提供更好的保障,在体验升级的同时提供不可或缺的安全防护。

基于零信任整体安全防护建设

灵活的混合办公机制在为员工和企业带来效率提升的同时,也会产生前所未见的安全隐患。随着大批量的移动员工通过远程接入方式访问企业内部信息资源,以及愈来愈多的企业间交互访问,在面对日益复杂的安全威胁时,NTT通过集成安全解决方案落地思科提倡的“零信任”安全机制,为企业提供完备的安全落地方案。

通过集成思科安全解决方案,能够实现在混合办公的新环境下为企业建立安全相关特征信息的收集策略、建立对网络访问行为的完整评估体系,并且针对潜在的可能威胁或威胁行为进行预警和防护。

NTT的安全服务

NTT提供以安全咨询顾问为入手方式的整体安全服务。基于NTT多年的IT行业经验,NTT拥有完整的安全咨询实践能力,可以对客户的安全管理体系、安全风险防空、安全体系运维等工作方面提供服务。并且可以基于客户访谈所反馈的问题提供专业的集成服务进行应对。

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