Infrastructure Design
Information technology (IT) and enterprise networks have become the core of many organizations. Critical business functions often depend on a fully functioning IT infrastructure: no network means no ability to generate revenue. To this end, an organization’s growth and evolution should be reflected in the growth and evolution of its network. Organizational changes can include new or expanded missions, new factors such as mobile workers, and growth or downsizing in response to purely external factors. Infrastructure changes that stem from these factors can include additional network components (of a type already present), new types of components, and additional subnets or Internet connections.
Network Infrastructure Design
- Improving your network efficiency
- Reducing your network complexity
- Enhancing your network security, availability and reliability
- Helping you keep up with the latest technologies and new-business needs
In your current business environment, connectivity and collaboration are becoming increasingly critical to business performance. Hence, you must continually evaluate your network infrastructure. Your network must not only meet today's business requirements, but also anticipate future needs, all in a cost-effective manner.
At EC&B Solutions, your certified engineers are highly trained, with extensive experience in designing complex enterprise networks. We will work as a team to understand the business requirements that drive your network infrastructure design decisions. The team will analyze your current network environment, architecture, and performance to determine any changes necessary to minimize your operating costs and risks and increase your communication efficiency. The team will also help develop network infrastructure design options that balance the requirements of your business drivers, industry practices, and your end users and applications needs, as well as traffic and performance requirements. Moreover, the team will take into consideration the latest technology and standards, and transform your business needs into network functionality.
Our Step-by-Step Approach
- Interviewing your key IT staff and business managers on site to determine your business and technology requirements.
- Determining whether a site survey or network assessment is necessary.
- Evaluating and providing a detailed road map, including your current network design, connectivity, and technology; server configuration, network applications, and security control procedures.
- Addressing any shortcomings in the current design.
- Determining ways to advance your network infrastructure according to the following considerations:
- Reducing costs by ensuring that your existing equipment will be used as much as possible.
- Balancing the requirements of your users and their applications along with those of your business objectives.
- Selecting the appropriate technologies and standards.
- Considering performance, reliability, availability and security needs.
- Creating network design alternatives.
- Assisting your key IT staff and business managers in deciding on the final design.
- Preparing and presenting the new network infrastructure.