Efficiency
For many of today’s businesses, network efficiency is oftentimes an afterthought. Networks are planned, installed, “managed,” and all too frequently left alone. Efficiency typically is not addressed until performance is in a severely degraded state. This type of reactive behavior leads to issues which have very negative business impacts.
Do any of these issues describe your network?
- A user begins a large file transfer, and your core business application lags in performance
- Internet bandwidth is being consumed by MP3 downloads and RealAudio streams
- The network infrastructure is not capable of handling the emerging trend towards voice, video, and data convergence
- Users are spending more time receiving and dealing with SPAM email than they are with business-related email
- Bandwidth “upgrades” were intended to increase WAN performance, yet have failed to do so. However, fixed costs increased dramatically
- Mobile users are increasing in numbers; yet do not have an efficient means of connecting to the corporate network
Polar Systems can help your organization by:
- Conducting Periodic Site Assessments that assist in identifying service, application, and hardware configurations, establishing a network baseline, monitoring network trends, and documenting change management
- Creating proper Network Design and Infrastructure to ensure scalability for future trends and minimizing broadcast domains. Configuring a network with Quality of Service / queuing / and filtering mechanisms. VLANs, access-control lists, QoS, and firewalls are configured to filter traffic at the distribution layer, while ensuring maximum throughput at the core layer
- Installing and routinely updating “Anti-SPAM Servers”to reduce spam email by over 50%, freeing your employees to focus their attention on business concerns
- Developing Wireless Network Deployments; which are becoming the norm for network expansion. Wireless is coming to an office near you; make sure it is installed efficiently and securely. Typical structured wiring costs are eliminated, networks become “portable”, and employees spend more time connected to the corporate network
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