Defining The Network Control Tower

The network control tower must be viewed as an access point that funnels and coordinates inbound and outbound traffic to the collaborative network.  This is a simple concept that allows the network partners to communicate safely and efficiently and provides that connection to simplify the connection of new partners to the network.  This also allows the partners to segment the and secure the communications to protect their own internal networks from the harm of external attacks and isolating the connection to the single control tower simplifies the security of the network.  This control tower design allows the partners to communication and also allows them to also select and expand the data from multiple partners into an internal data mart that will support the research and analysis to help the partners sense and respond to changing demands of the market.

The network access point is no small task for the control tower software and in addition, this is the point where the network security must also be taken into account to plan for the security of the access points and the integration from partners.  The Access point is important to be based on a robust and flexible framework that supports the integration technology requirements from a perspective and most importantly from a framework that will expand and change to support the demands of the network. The access point is important to support rules based integration using the communication standards of the time and must also be flexible enough to support the changing rules and communication standards.  The goal, or one of the key requirements must be the speed of integration to new partners. Without speed in integration delivery the entire collaborative network will fail under the weight of changing demands and delays in delivery. This is why it is so important to develop a flexible control tower based on standard communications protocols on a robust platform.

The communications between partners is very important and the control tower allows the partners to select and route communications across partners and communication to multiple partners at the same time through the rules based communications methods and also the standards based communication supports the simplification and speed of the communications.  This is important to support the expanding collaborative network and partners communication and demands of the network. Without a method to quickly and efficiently communicate across the network the network will soon collapse under the weight of communication requirements. Communications is the lifeblood of the collaborative network and requires a thoughtful initial approach to the definition of this network control tower to support the communication demands in the future.  

The collaboration network control tower provides a robust platform that will support the communications demands and most importantly practices of the collaborative network at large.  There is an important underlying need for the collaborative network to support the communications across the entire network and also provide the ability to focus and expand the communication to and across partners within the network in a non-linear manner that skips and includes partners based on the demands of the communications and also the demands on the partners to support their needs and the network demands.  These communications can quickly become very complicated and this in turn is a leading reason for the network control towers to support and coordinate the communications