FOREIGN
LITERATURE
The National Institutes of Health
(NIH) is an agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services
and is the primary agency of the United States government responsible for
biomedical and health-related research. It consists of 27 separate institutes
and offices which includes the Office of the Director. Francis S. Collins is
the current Director.The network is a key component of IT infrastructure that
covers all of the software, hardware and transport capabilities needed to
provide connectivity across the NIH (National Institutes of Health) of Bethesda, Maryland, USA. As organizations rise to the challenge of
delivering consistently high-quality support and high-availability connectivity
for mission-critical applications, the complexity of the network infrastructure
also increases. This article establishes
network architectural standards and guidelines across the NIH and specifies
agreed-upon common components that can be implemented enterprise wide. The identification of network standards and
guidelines will help minimize network complexity and reduce overall costs by
ensuring that common network deployments (including design and structured
cabling), network management services, remote access solutions and vendor
equipment are implemented consistently across the NIH enterprise. The patterns and bricks documented in
Sections 2 and 3 of this report provide the target state for networks. The bricks also include current-state
information about the current NIH environment. [1]
