Network Infrastructure
Design & Support
Design
Designing a new network infrastructure takes time. It is essential that it reflects your needs and growth projections. We need to know how your business will use the technology. How many and what type of employees will be working at the office? Will you have remote sales people? Will your organization have multiple locations? What kind of security will your organization need and is it mandated by the government? What kind of Industry applications will you use and what are the technical requirements?
What kind of data cabling if required? Perhaps a wireless access point is necessary. The type of employee or the different job description that your employees have will determine what kind of access they might require to the network infrastructure. For example, your accounting data should be accessed by accounting staff but not the sales staff.
Whether you have a sales staff connecting from the field or have multiple offices, remote access to data is a common consideration for most companies. Remote access can be granted several different ways. Microsoft Terminal Services will allow remote sales people to work with documents and sales applications. Cisco ASA 5505 routers allow for router-to-router VPNs, allowing satellite offices access to data at the main office.
We have worked in many industries and seen many industry applications. The Legal Profession has four or five prominent applications that are used to do things such as track client documents, calendar specific events during a trial by the touch of a button and track the payouts of a class action suit. The design of your network infrastructure needs to accommodate the industry application your organization chooses. The application itself may dictate what kind of network infrastructure we plan for.
