Network Critical to RFID Success ...

Network Critical to RFID Success: Analyst Study Shows Success of RFID is Dependent on Network ...

Cisco IDC study shows that RFID success is linked with network capability and performance ...

From Business Wire (press release), CA ... (Nasdaq:CSCO) today unveiled a study by IDC, a leading provider of global IT research and advice, that predicts the widespread deployment of radio frequency identification (RFID) is expected to have a major impact on enterprise networks.

... Cisco Systems(R) (Nasdaq:CSCO) today unveiled a study by IDC, a leading provider of global IT research and advice, that predicts the widespread deployment of radio frequency identification (RFID) is expected to have a major impact on enterprise networks. The success of these deployments is therefore likely to be linked to a network's ability to handle RFID data intelligently and securely right to the edge of an organisation. The paper also warns that organisations need to take action now to ensure their networks are up to the task of handling large-scale RFID roll-outs before these happen. RFID is an established technology that has been brought to the forefront of the IT industry debate in recent months as a result of a number of high-profile enterprise pilots and mandates issued by major retail chains. IDC's Planning for Proliferation: The Impact of RFID on the Network, commissioned by Cisco and based on interviews with a number of retail and logistics firms currently using RFID, predicts that the technology will have a significant impact on enterprise networks not just because of the number of tags likely to be involved, but also because of the amount of data each tag could hold and the number of times it is scanned during transit or processing. ...

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