Network Planning, Design & Implementation

A company’s IT network is the backbone of its business as it connects all its computers and related devices together, allowing staff to work more efficiently across the organization. 

What is network design?

Network design is the planning phase a company’s IT infrastructure must go through before it is implemented. 

It involves evaluating and understanding how all the elements of the network link together (from routers, switches, and servers to desktops, laptops, and printers) and how they can be made to run as efficiently as possible.

The Planning should involve the below 3 parameters to deliver the best possible design,

Future planning, Security, and monitoring. This will ensure your network will run well, be able to scale with your business, and ultimately help the company perform better. 

With something so mission-critical it’s crucial it is designed and set up properly. If you’re wondering how to design a network for your company, then don’t wait any longer and contact one of our specialists to help you with a complete guide.   

Datacenter Networking

Datacenter networks are evolving rapidly as organizations embark on digital initiatives to transform their businesses to achieve greater agility, efficiency, and competitive advantage. They are adopting hybrid IT and multi-cloud, as a result, formerly centralized applications and workloads residing in on-premises enterprise data centers are being distributed across clouds. 

At the same time, workforces are becoming increasingly mobile and dispersed, working from campuses, branch offices, and increasingly — as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic — home offices. 

These trends are redefining the parameters of the traditional datacenter and compelling organizations to modernize and extend their network infrastructure to accommodate distributed multi-cloud workloads as well as application access spanning an unprecedented variety of network endpoints and locations.

Modern data center networking architectures leverage full-stack networking (switching, routing, load balancing, analytics, etc.) and security platforms that support a rich set of data services connecting everything from VMs, containers, and bare-metal applications while enabling centralized management and security controls.

We take a 360-degree approach to incorporate all the below points while consulting our clients for their mission-critical datacenters.

• Networking Devices, 
• Automation,
• Consistent policy,
• comprehensive security
• overall visibility. 
• Easy Management & 
• Intelligent monitoring.

We help customers design and implement the most advanced data center networking platforms to connect and protect everything in an organization’s environment, adjusting dynamically to the evolving needs of users and applications.

Campus Switching & Routing

A campus network is generally the portion of the enterprise network infrastructure that provides access to network communication services and resources to end-users and devices that are spread over a single geographic location. But sometimes it may also be a single building or a group of buildings spread over an extended geographic area.

We design modern converged enterprise campus networks leveraging the following common set of principles:

• Hierarchy
• Modularity
• Resiliency

while more and demanding workloads also require us to consider 

• Enhanced Security, 
• Reliability for wired & Wireless Manageability &
• scale with efficiency.

We help enterprises of all levels with modular enterprise campus architecture which has a high level of design flexibility that makes it more responsive to evolving business needs.

Wifi Solutions

An enterprise-grade wireless network is more than just a collection of WiFi Access Points (APs). At the minimum, it’s characterized by superior security and performance; centralized configuration and management; and a much higher capacity for user density.

With an enterprise wireless network, you typically get the following advantages over a traditional wireless network:

Better collaboration capabilities. Your users can move from room to room without losing access to applications and files that require a persistent network connection.

Centralized management. Administrators can configure and manage the network from a centralized location as opposed to doing the same tasks on each AP.

Better compliance capabilities. It usually comes with security features and settings designed for meeting regulatory compliance and security policy requirements.

Better end-user experience. All network-based processes will be faster, clearer, and less susceptible to disruptions.

But that’s not all, New-age wifi solutions also need to cater to some more important features to really give the most value for your money. 

High-efficiency wireless, faster connections, greater user capacity, more coverage,

visibility & streamline management, Gain visibility into the network users, their devices, and their applications. 

AI-Powered & Automated, Automatically monitor and fix your Wi-Fi, wired, and SD-WAN environments, predict and address issues before they impact users, reduce mean time to issue resolution

Advanced Network Security, Armed with rich analytics, administrators can quickly create access control and application usage policies, optimizing both the end-user experience and network security.

Cloud-based or onsite Controller-based, cloud-based controllers are more capable of handling geographically dispersed business units and readily support zero-touch deployments.

As a service, deploy the latest networking technologies as a service, with flexible consumption

Software-Defined Networking

Datacenter SDN no longer attracts breathless hype and has become a commonly understood concept

IDC defines SDN by stating: “Datacenter SDN architectures feature software-defined overlays or controllers that are abstracted from the underlying network hardware, offering intent-or policy-based management of the network as a whole. This results in a data center network that is better aligned with the needs of application workloads through automated (thereby faster) provisioning, programmatic network management, pervasive application-oriented visibility, and where needed, direct integration with cloud orchestration platforms.”

Separating the control and data planes is the most common way to think of what SDN is, but the benefits it offers is much more than simplifying the complexity – like: 

Supporting Edge and IoT 

Distributing computing power to remote sites, moving data center functions to the edge, adopting cloud computing, and supporting the Internet of Things environments – each of these efforts can be made easier and more cost-efficient via a properly configured SDN environment.  

Enhance Security

A customer can split up a network connection between an end-user and the data center and have different security settings for the various types of network traffic. 

SD-WAN

SD-WAN lets companies aggregate a variety of network connections – including MPLS, 4G LTE, and DSL – into a branch or network edge location and have a software management platform that can turn up new sites, prioritize traffic, and set security policies

Built on software-defined principles, Optimistic Technology Solutions Pvt Ltd offers services on industry-leading SDN and network virtualization controllers to build a robust enterprise SDN  giving better control, management, Visibility, Efficiency, and realize better cost savings to customers.

Network Monitoring Systems

In today’s world, the term network monitoring is widespread throughout the IT industry. Network monitoring is a critical IT process where all networking components like routers, switches, firewalls, servers, and VMs are monitored for fault and performance and evaluated continuously to maintain and optimize their availability.

For example, crashed, frozen, or overloaded servers; failed switches; failing routers; and other troublesome components can all potentially cause outages or network failures. Should some problem arise and trigger an outage, it is the role of the network monitoring system to alert the network administrator in a timely way.

Some organizations use multiple network monitoring solutions including web traffic monitoring software to manage and monitor their network operations. 

But isolated- silo solutions need several such tools, including data, graphs, and reports, to uncover the real source of the problem.

Using integrated network management software allows some users to avoid this issue. This kind of network monitoring service could also be offered through cloud-based network monitoring in real-time and provides more detailed insights into the issues that are slowing down the network. 

Optimistic Technology Solutions Pvt Ltd has deployed many industry-leading NMS solutions to enable our customers with quicker fixes and less downtime.