Most businesses today rely on computer networks to do their day-to-day business transactions. That is why it’s impeccable to have an up-to-date reliable network where you, your business partners, employees, and customers can access and share essential data.
One of the most critical aspects to the overall efficiency and effectiveness of your network is the architecture and design. Our network architects hold the highest level of technical certifications across multiple vendors.
Don’t let Network Design limit your business potential. With a strong network strategy, design analysis, and implementation of local and wide area network architecture, one can get the most out of network performance and help grow and scale the core business.
One of the important elements when designing a network is understanding and defining requirements. Business requirements can sometimes be difficult to articulate and translate into actionable technical goals. Whether supply chain, logistics or telecommunications, business networks are composed of multiple layers. These business layers typically include infrastructure, processing, equipment, information, finance, but also people, skills, and methods such as sorting and routing. Developing or evolving a network architecture requires a clear understanding of business requirements, dynamics, and risks.
It is often said in the networking field that architecture is the intersection of business and technology. This is a philosophy we fully embrace and put into practice for our clients by solving design problems in creative ways to ensure that business needs are met. What separates us from many other firms is our commitment to the development of validated designs across multiple vendors.
The design of networks involves the evaluation of possible topologies. Each topology comes with its own performance, cost and resilience attributes. As consultants, we provide our clients with distinct network designs and measure the impact of each design against business objectives. These objectives may include maximizing access, availability, flexibility, or profit. We use appropriate network analysis and modeling tools and techniques to design networks that function efficiently and effectively.
A multi-vendor approach opens up a world of options to reduce CAPEX and select the equipment that best solves the problem instead of relying on a vertically integrated solution from a single vendor.
To avoid costly delays caused by link failures, network congestion or other difficulties, we design redundancy into networks so they can automatically adapt to adverse conditions. Our advanced network design methods include the use of path diversity and alternate routing so that traffic is rerouted when failures or congestion occurs ensuring consistent results and satisfied customers.
Network security and safety must be designed at the outset to integrate seamlessly with other network layers. Security and safety affect architecture, topology, infrastructure, people, information systems, operations, and management. Network complexity is an important element to consider in the design of network security and safety. Our team of network architects is comfortable solving architecture problems across a spectrum of industries that include enterprise, data center and service provider.
By looking at network lifecycles and using our extensive portfolio of expertise, the growth of a network and the protocols needed for scale and success can be projected with minimal guesswork.
A discovery exercise will be undertaken to ensure a full understanding of the existing network infrastructure and configuration. Any Issues will be highlighted for remediation. Once complete, the new solution will be designed.
The documented output will include:
- High-Level Design documentation outlining the solution and its integration into the existing environment.
- Requirements met table
- Low Level Design documentation including baseline configuration.
- Topology diagram pack (L2 / L3 / Routing)
- Wiring schematic (L1)
- IP Addressing schema
- Bill of Materials and ROM cost
- Advice on Order of implementation for minimal disruption
- Change control
After the initial design phase, a presentation of the solution design will be made to the organisation decision makers.