Possible future of the e-commerce data-center: Convergence

Router

Firewall

Balancer

T3 (44.7 Mb/s)

OC-12 (622 Mb/s)

from ISP

Financial

Firewall

Accounts

Cisco

Sun

Back-end SMP

IBM

Oracle

Legacy systems

Web server

Secure servers

Application (java) server

Enterprise data center:

Customer payment

Customer accounts

Stock quotes

Lucent

PC-based

home / business

e-commerce

data center

Everyone uses integrated

PC-based data-center

solution

DSL

from ISP

Amazon.com

4xT3 bandwidth

in year 2000

1.5 M teenagers

have internet companies

as of 6/00

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