{"id":18860,"date":"2025-05-30T15:21:58","date_gmt":"2025-05-30T22:21:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.netgear.com\/hub\/?page_id=18860"},"modified":"2025-11-06T09:30:33","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T17:30:33","slug":"myth-of-fully-converged-networks","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.netgear.com\/hub\/business\/av\/myth-of-fully-converged-networks\/","title":{"rendered":"Why the Myth of Fully Converged Networks is Costing Enterprises Millions"},"content":{"rendered":"    <div class=\"table-of-content bg-gray 18860\">\n        <p><strong>IN THIS ARTICLE<\/strong><\/p>\n        <ul>\n                        <li><a href=\"#topic1\">The Hidden Costs of Forced Convergence<\/a><\/li>\n                        <li><a href=\"#topic2\">The NETGEAR Alternative: Purpose-Built AV Infrastructure<\/a><\/li>\n                        <li><a href=\"#topic3\">More information<\/a><\/li>\n                    <\/ul>\n    <\/div>\n        <div id=\"topic1\" class=\"skip-item\">\n                        <h2>The Hidden Costs of Forced Convergence<\/h2>\n                <h3>Performance Degradation:<\/h3>\n<p>Multicast video streams create congestion, jitter, and degraded performance for mission-critical applications when mixed with traditional enterprise data traffic.<\/p>\n<h3>Engineering Complexity:<\/h3>\n<p>Achieving true convergence requires significant investment in specialized engineering resources and extensive manual configuration.<\/p>\n<h3>Unpredictable Network Behavior:<\/h3>\n<p>Traditional IT networks optimized for unicast data traffic struggle with high-bandwidth multicast streams, leading to packet loss and increased latency.<\/p>\n    <\/div>\n        <div id=\"topic2\" class=\"skip-item\">\n                        <h2>The NETGEAR Alternative: Purpose-Built AV Infrastructure<\/h2>\n                <p>Rather than forcing convergence, NETGEAR recognized that AV over IP requires its own optimized network infrastructure. 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