By any other name, Segmented Network
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My boss would like a more "fun" term for segmented network. Something easy for the managers to remember and understand.
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- Role-based networking
- Subnets
- Mini-LANs
- Glomboids (tell him that's a real thing)
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Role based networking has promise. We are trying to kill a term brought in by a finance guy.
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@andyrh Who tf listens to money guys about tech???
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I will not say who, but we were bought by them and later split off. One of the things that stuck was "ring-fence" when referring to a segmented network. The CIO was a CFO at a different company and out-sourced to the bone before leaving.
My boss wants to remove that finance term, but she needs something that will stick. -
Well ring fence is valid term in finance world - it means separation of assets or profits.. So I could see why a cfo would use such a term to describe a segmented network.
We have used the term for people, when a employee is ours, but only allowed to work for a specific customer and not any other projects, etc.
But if the networks were allowed to talk to each other at all - then the term would break down in validity. I wouldn't use the term to describe the segmentation of networks in a location that can talk to each other.
But say you had a location for example in china that wasn't allowed to talk to the rest of global network - guess you could say they are ring fenced ;)
