Network Performance Audit and Design
Regain control of your network
When it's right, your network drives your business. Everything works and everyone has fast and easy access to the applications, services and resources they need.
When it's wrong, your network gets in the way and everything becomes much harder work than it needs to be.
For most organisations, the reality is somewhere in between. Yet there is no reason why the infrastructure on which you all depend should not be right all of the time.
LAN2LAN's Network Audit, Recommendation and Design service puts you back in control of your network. It gives you the knowledge you need to eliminate bottlenecks and vulnerabilities and defines a clear path forward in the face of continuously changing needs.
Managing change
Change is the root of most network problems, especially in larger or more established organisations. Complexity breeds cost and people inevitably do things - and attach things - that affect the way the network performs.
With LAN2LAN, downtime should only happen when you are making planned changes; the impact should be managed and minimal. And if the unexpected does occur, our Audit, Recommendation and Design service will give you the insight into your infrastructure that allows rapid, effective remedy.
Past, present and future
In three stages, LAN2LAN will scrutinise, analyse and help to optimise your network. We’ll help you overcome historical problems and prevent disruption in the future. We will equip your organisation with a network that works and supports your business goals - a network that is part of the solution, not part of the problem.
- Audit explores the network from end-to-end, presenting you with a comprehensive report on the shape of things as they are
- Recommendation gives you a detailed menu of recommended steps to overcome the problems we have highlighted and shows how you can exploit new capabilities which your network is ready to support
- Design provides a process for the design and implementation of the next evolutionary phase - anything from the addition of a new workgroup, to a complete migration to a new platform
Intelligent Network Audit, Recommendation and Design
LAN2LAN can provide all or any of the three crucial steps to true knowledge of your network. The detailed processes for each service can include:
Audit
- Technical investigation and interviews with key people
- Discovery of individual device configurations
- Mapping of network topology and addressing
- Service analysis, including the performance of servers and applications
- Examination of security and management policy and practice
- Creation of physical and logical network diagrams
- Discovery and highlighting of bottlenecks
- User traffic profiles and port traffic profiles
- Software version and licence compliance audit
- Preparation of comprehensive documentation
Recommendation
- Specific recommendations for solutions to problems highlighted in the audit
- Strategic recommendations for the network, based on the identified needs of the organisation
- Technical and product recommendations to assist with purchasing decisions
- Policy and practice recommendations for security, management and business continuity
- Recommendations for software and application deployment and management
- Regulatory and licensing compliance recommendations
- Policy and practice recommendations for maintaining a comprehensive understanding of the network in the future
Design
- Based on the findings of the audit
- Consultancy to determine the business need
- High-level design to establish an agreed concept
- Revision and refinement of high-level designs, in consultation with you
- Detailed design, encompassing specifications and configurations
- Testing and proof of concept, minimising the risk
Trusted partners
Partnership with LAN2LAN gives you an experienced and independent trusted advisor to help you achieve the results you need. We have been designing, building and troubleshooting networks since the dawn of the Internet age and we always start by establishing a deep understanding of the relationship between the organisation and its infrastructure. That way, we can help you create a path forward that reflects your essential culture and operational priorities.
The LAN2LAN difference
- Intellectual investment in your own network infrastructure, evolving a format that can be easily maintained and transferred
- Bespoke recommendations based on organisational objectives and industry best practices
- Knowledge transfer, equipping you with everything we have learned about your entire network infrastructure
- Definition of a clear Baseline for your network, providing the foundation for future network management and development
Master your network
Even the most efficient and effective network management teams can struggle to keep pace with the constant change affecting the networks in their care. LAN2LAN’s dedicated and experienced experts can give you the clarity and insight you need to regain control of your infrastructure and guide it effortlessly into the future.
Network Performance Audit – Further Information
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