HP ProCurve Case Discussion
1. Evolution of NB (networking business)
Period | Industry Trends & Competition | NB’s Focus & Strategy | Attention from HP Top Management | Internal Relationships | External Relationships | Resource Allocation | NB Performance | 1. Emergence1970s | Fermentation, very few companies (3com) | Interconnect with disparate computers, emulating IBM systems and networking HP computers among themselves. | Very little | Management didn’t give it much attention | None | Very little money | | 2. IND & ING1982-88 | Fermentation, Cisco and 3com | ING had to create networking protocols to communicate with a variety of systems, including IBM mainframes and DEC mini computers and HP’s own three
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Will ProCurve be able to thrive under the umbrella of TSG? Or should it stand on its own within HP? Present the pros and cons of each option and then make a decision.
I believe that putting it with TSG is the best that they have done for it, but they should put it on its own. If you look at Cisco and 3com, they show you how much potential the market has and how much ProCurve has of that market. ProCurve should stand on its own to be able to better monitor and to give the person responsible for it his full focus. The pros of being a stand-alone are: full focus from the management on ProCurve products, separate sales team, marketing team, R&D, etc., more entrepreneurial sprit. The Cons are that HP would compare it to all the other larger departments and if it didn’t perform as high as they did, they might sell it like they previously were planning to do. The pros of being under TSG is that ProCurve will not be compared to other departments, but rather the whole TSG will be, this will show more revenue from that department and if ProCurve didn’t perform as well, it can be covered by other revenues. TSG can allocate more things to ProCurve faster and decisions can be done faster and on a smaller scale. The cons of being under TSG are that TSG can allocate things different and not really give ProCurve the attention it needs to grow to its potential, Sales and marketing
Company has evolved to handle joint ventures, but not all of them turn into successes.
But how does it work? The internet, based on the concept of “packet switching”, involves the travelling of small packets of data over one or more networks (Frenzel, 2013). This can be compared to “electronic postcards”, meaning that “a computer generates a piece of data and flings it into the net, just like the postal system, except 100 million times faster” (Cerf, 2013). This concept allows one computer to speak to many different computers around the network by sending out these “electronic postcards”. However, before these networks can work seamlessly together, they must use a common protocol, or set of rules for transmitting and receiving these packets of data. There are several protocols currently in use, including the OSI Model, the TCP/IP Model, UDP, HTTP, and FDP (Mitchell, 2014), but the most commonly used is Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) (Gilmer, 2011). Even as early as 1977, TCP/IP was being used by other networks to link to ARPANET (Kozierok,
Describe the data communication types used historically and the developments that have led to modern day Local Area Networks (LANs). Detail any emerging technologies and where you think data communications are likely to be in ten years’ time.
You will discover different network topologies and different types of networks: LANs, WANs, and internetworks (internets). The concept of switching is discussed to show how small networks can be combined to create larger ones. You will learn about the Internet: its early history, the birth of the Internet, and the issues related to the Internet today. This module covers standards and standards organizations.
24. Pg 6 Phase 2 Infrastructure. Bell/AT&T were the first. Microprocessors and packet switching also were part of the new way.
Task 1: Describe the data communication types used historically and the developments that have led to modern day Local Area Networks (LANs). Detail any emerging technologies and where you think data communications are likely to be in ten year’s time.
At the time, the personal computer business was in its infancy, and the company sought to fill a niche by providing communication networks to link mainframe computers. Although the company grew rapidly, Mr. Lee felt that the real opportunities for growth lay in personal computers. In the mid-1980s, he decided to make a major switch to the production
The HP 2020 (2014) reported that obesity is one of the twelve leading health indicators clusters with supporting data, posing concerns at a national, state and local level, needing an evidence based promising practice. The HP 2020 provides access to cross sectors, a 10-year national goals, objectives and evidence based interventions resources to improve health practices. Specifically, the HP 2020 (2015) identified goals that can reduce the obesity epidemic:
The two authors follow the story from the conception of the idea of "packet switching" in the early 1960s to the creation and development of the Internet. We see how one idea led to another and how the intelligent people around the circumstances influenced the developments.
In 1979 Aldrich connected a television set to a transaction processing computer with a telephone line and created what he called, “Teleshopping,”
Currently their information system (IS) is not fully centralized and this is causing a lot of problem in their expansion and cross-company
network (ARPANET) meant to promote the sharing of super-computers amongst researchers in the United States.” (Kristula, pg 68). Through the next couple years there were talks of about how this network could come into the cooperate world. In 1969 researchers at four US campuses created the first hosts of the ARPANET. They connected the Stanford Research Institute, UCLA, UC Santa Barbara, and the University of Utah. The ARPANET was a success from the very beginning. Although originally designed to allow scientists to share data and access remote computers, email quickly became the most popular application. The ARPANET became a high-speed digital post office as people use it to collaborate on research projects and discuss topics of various interests. In 1971 the ARPANET grows to 23 hosts connecting universities and government research centers around the country. In 1972, the Inter-Networking Working Group becomes
The internet matured in the 1970's as a result of the Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP), which is sill used today. It was adopted by the U.S. Department of Defense in 1980, and universally adopted in 1983. The usage of TCP/IP is what unites all elements of the net. Both public domain and commercial implementations of the roughly one hundred protocols of the TCP/IP protocol suite became available in the 1980's. During the early 1990's, Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) protocol implementations also became available by the end of 1991, the Internet has grown to include some 5,000 networks in over three dozen countries, serving over 700,000 host computers used be over 4,000,000 people. By December 1996, about 627,000 Internet domain names had been registered and now there are more than 30 million registered.
The fact that during the beginning of this century many developments occurred both with the internet and with telephony must be considered. The major developments were the availability of the internet on small machines like the mobile, PDA and
However, it was not until the 1960s that researchers started to investigate packet switching — a technology that would allow chunks of data to be sent to different computers without first passing through a centralized mainframe. A four-node network emerged on 5 December 1969; this network would become ARPANET, which by 1981 would consist of 213