Directory Enabled Networks
John C. Strassner, Fred Baker · New Riders Publishing eBooks · 1999
From the Publisher: Directory Enabled Networks is a completely new paradigm for leveraging the network. Current network management applications are built using applications and protocols designed to manage individual devices. DEN is a way to manage the entire network. While networks are currently able to provide Class of Service and Quality of Service, these services currently require manual provisioning by experienced personnel, and therefore have high associated cost of ownership. If these services can be centrally controlled and provisioned by simpler means, they can support existing applications and new network-aware applications that require dynamic, yet guaranteed levels of service while reducing the Total Cost of Ownership. The DMTF (desktop management task force) has a DEN working group responsible for developing and finalizing the DEN specification. The DEN specification will also have ramifications within the LDUP (LDAP replication) and policy-based networking working groups at the IETF.