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This document presents network design practices to enhance an Oracle E-Business Suite12i application environment across the WAN. It introduces key concepts and options regarding application deployment and detailed designs strategies available to a data center leveraging Cisco application and networking technologies.

Today's organizations face a host of challenges from the new global economy. With Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12, applications and technology come together to ensure that your company can compete effectively in the worldwide marketplace.

Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12 enables businesses to think globally to make better decisions, work globally to be more competitive, and manage globally to lower costs and increase performance. With a new user experience and hundreds of cross-industry capabilities spanning enterprise resource planning, customer relationship management, and supply chain planning, this new release helps you manage the complexities of global business environments.

The enterprise data center is an intricate system of computing power and storage resources that supports enterprise business applications. A data center is not simply a facility, but represents a competitive edge that is strategic to achieving the real business objectives that the associated applications collectively address. The physical and logical design of the data center network must provide a flexible, secure, and highly available environment to optimize critical business applications and to assist the enterprise in achieving its goals; goals that are not confined to the local data center campus, but extend to encompass remote locations and users.

Enterprises are addressing IT infrastructure and management costs through the consolidation of branch and data center resources. Consolidation centralizes application environments and storage assets in the data center to make them accessible to remote users via the WAN. The introduction of detached applications to the enterprise is significant because distance might negatively affect performance, availability, and the overall end-user experience.