Network Infrastructure Design

Your computer network will provide a reduced business benefit if it has not been designed to link all the various parts of the company together.

The traditional view of network infrastructure design is to establish the network operations location and work out from there to the rest of the company. This methodology tends to make the business bend to the needs of the IT systems, rather than have the focus of the IT department (even the one person operation) firmly on the business requirements of the company. We design networks that support business your processes, not need them to be changed to make the computing work.

If you have a production facility, which manufactures products for sales through a distributed sales team onto stores and thence customers then you need to link all those business components together so that the management team can react to changes in demand and production cycles:

All of these business components need to be linked by means of a network infrastructure - a combination of wires and connection devices to pass the signals between your systems. The speed of the network can be slow over the Internet, quicker between your own facililites or fairly immediate within each of your sites. The faster the connection speed the more expensive the devices and wiring. We recommend and design solutions using NetGear equipment, in our view the best price for performance balance we have found in the market.

If your business grows to more than one location local network speeds (10Mbs or better) over long distances are simply not acheivable at an entry level price. For example a 45Mbs link can cost over £50 000 per year. The design of your inter-site or Wide Area Network (WAN) links can become the major cost driver for your telecommunications bills and optimising the use of low cost Internet connectivity can greatly reduce your bills.

Microsoft Windows 2000 server technologies are specifically designed to operate with WAN links running at less than 10Mbs and the systems can be configured to use existing Internet links to securely link all your remote offices, staff and customers back to the main corporate network.

Designing these solutions efficiently to minimise the telecommunications costs takes a significant level of knowledge above that of a network administrator and Microsoft have acknowledged this fact by producing a specific examination of the skills required to design Windows 2000 network infrastructures. Our design staff have passed this demanding business case study examination - proving the skill set required to meet your needs.

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