The organizations need to choose the technologies, applications, and tools that meet their needs and goals. For example, at some companies like Cisco the use of advanced network infrastructure is central to their core business and the use of advanced network infrastructure is an important part of the learning architecture. For some other companies the underlying network, server, and communication infrastructure is not as important as the application services and technologies that they need. How the organizations decide to choose and implement the following depends on their learning and development goals.

Network Infrastructure:

Content Delivery Networks
Architecture for Voice, Media, and Integrated Data
Intelligent Network Services

Application Platforms

Business Operations Services
Performance Management Services
Learning Management Services
Content Management Services
Delivery Management Services

Delivery Platforms:

Windows OS ( Vista / Xp / 2000 )
Mac OS ( OS X )
Mobil Device OS
Btowsers ( Intenet Explorer, Fire Fox )

Technologies such as:

Oracle DB, ASP, HTML, Video and Audio Streaming, Java, MS SQL, XML, Web Services

Web 2.0 and Social Networking Tools

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