Network
Design
Network
Design is still a lively
debate in most enterprise IT
organizations. Still, this is the
discipline that has perhaps the
largest budget, however, also the
largest budget hurdles.
No one knows everything!
However,
we have been in the
trenches more than once. EVERYTHING
revolves around requirements. Often, the requirements
are thinner than the budget.
This brings us to the point that designs
are fabricated from requirements. These requirements
are derived based on your business needs. Many loose
sight of this balance.
Also, many well thought solutions
do not necessitate tremendous expense.
Based on your requirements, we can
fabricate a design. However, this design is not the
end, it is merely the beginning.
The
customer knows their business and the expected result
better than anyone!
Based on interaction and feedback
from the customer, the design may be re-worked as
a new or overlooked requirement is meshed into the
project. It WILL not move forward until the customer’s
final approval.
As for the final design, no detail
is too small. We’re big fans of doing things
correctly. For instance, ALL interfaces have descriptions,
ALL circuit numbers are known and listed in the description,
and the documentation WILL BE accurate.
Also, we DO NOT resell hardware. In
other words we will work to provide the best value
and required functionality regardless of the vendor.
Our experience ranges from turning
a Netware File Server into a TCP/IP router many years
ago to most recently designing and implementing an
Enormous Internet Gateway for a large Institution.
Our experience in IPv6, Network Management,
and Security are a great asset in the design process.
This awareness generally eliminates several iterations
of design; this in turn gets your project underway
even faster.
If we can help, give us a call. Also,
if you should be facing a critical outage, please
call, our rates do not differ for evening and weekend
hours.