Network Audit

Requirements

Network Rationalization and Consolidation

Network Design

Facilities and Equipment Acquisition

Installation and Configuration

Orientation and Training

Network Management and Operations

Performance Evaluation and Tuning

Capacity Planning

Wide-Area Client/Server Application Design

DECnet/OSI Transition Planning and Implementation

Technologies
Reference Accounts

Network Audit

Not sure where to begin? Let us help. Many companies try to plan for the future without a clear understanding of what they already have. We recognize the value of your existing network investment, and use it as a building block for network expansion, consolidation, and rationalization. It provides us with an opportunity to identify potential cost savings with your existing network.

Requirements

Before we make recommendations, we need to know your business requirements. We apply our experience with large-scale networks to quickly identify your immediate and long-term needs. That way, you can be sure your network dollar is spent effectively.

Network Rationalization and Consolidation

Once we've looked at your existing network, and identified your need, it's time to reap the benefits. Here, we answer the question "does this still make sense"? We first rationalize and consolidate what you already have, to squeeze the most out of your current investment.

Network Design

Network Design involves carefully balancing business requirements and costs. We use a highly-effective "first priority" methodology to ensure that your most important objectives are addressed first. We also design for reliability and simplicity. That way, your network is there when you need it - all the time.

Facilities and Equipment Acquisition

Once we've identified what you need, you now must go out and source it. Who do you turn to? How do you decide where the best values are? Let us help - we know the industry. We use a multiple vendor quotation technique which guarantees that you get the best solution for the lowest possible cost.

Installation and Configuration

Wide-Area Network installations are tedious processes that must be carefully orchestrated. Since they involve multiple locations, vendors, and staff, they are always complex and potentially full of problems. We know this, and have developed a number of highly effective techniques which result in smooth network installations every time.

Orientation and Training

Should your network ever go down, your business could suffer. You need the most qualified people to get you going again. Where do you find these people? Chances are, you already have them. We can provide the proper level of customized network training to make them walk on water when it's needed most.

Network Management and Operations

Networks cost money. If improperly managed, they fail to perform and end up wasting your money. Tap into our experience managing large-scale multiprotocol enterprise networks, to ensure that your network runs reliably 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Performance Evaluation and Tuning

Is your network performing up to spec? Are you getting your money's worth? Are there bottlenecks? These are questions that we are fully qualified to answer. Our protocol and utilization analysis techniques, plus our intuitive "sixth sense", result in accurate assessment of network performance every time.

Capacity Planning

What about the future? How do you know that your network won't collapse with the very next application? Here's where we can help. Our proven capacity modeling techniques allow us to assess your existing network load, and calculate a "delta load" factor for each new application. That way, you know your network will be there for you when you need it.

Wide-Area Client/Server Application Design

Most client/server software was developed and tested for 10Mb/sec Ethernets. What happens to these applications when they are forced to run over Wide-Area Network lines that are 178 times slower? We already know. We can help you design your client/server applications around these constraints, and avoid the mess when you discover what 56Kb/sec really means to performance.

DECnet/OSI Transition Planning and Implementation

With DIGITAL's OpenVMS V7.1, DECnet-Plus (formerly called DECnet/OSI) will become the default network software. This means that you are migrating to OSI, ready or not. Who in your organization is properly trained to plan and implement this complicated transition? Who in North America is qualified? We have been working with DECnet/OSI since its release, and are uniquely qualified to help you make the transition smoothly, without a hitch.

Technologies

Fractional T-1, Frame-Relay, Digital, Analog, Dialup

10BaseT, 100BaseT, FDDI LANs

TCP/IP, DECnet-IV, OSI CLNS, X.25, LAN protocols

Cisco, Bay Networks

DIGITAL DECnis/WANrouter/DECbrouter, VNswitches

OpenVMS, Unix

Microsoft Windows NT 4.0, Windows 95, DOS

clearVISN, POLYCENTER/Netview Network Management

 

Reference Accounts

Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources - Wide-Area Network of 100 locations in Ontario using Cisco multiprotocol routers over fractional T-1, digital, and analog services.

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