The Data Center network architecture is a key component of the Service Oriented Infrastructure. How the network infrastructure is designed and implemented plays a key role in what level of service availability and survivability the IT resources can offer. In many cases, the network is grown organically with little consideration for future growth or physical/logical separation requirements.

As the application services infrastructure expands, it becomes more of a challenge to maintain and purposefully plan for performance and availability of the network. The solutions4networks Data Center Network Architecture and Engineering practice focuses its attention on this most vital underpinning of the Service Oriented Infrastructure – the network.  Additionally, it is paramount to understand not only the data center WAN and LAN infrastructure, but also the remote site WAN infrastructure in order to match expected application performance and availability characteristics on an end-to-end basis.

Solutions4networks follows a standard, proven approach that includes the following activities: identification of touch points within the current environment, creation of configuration standards, development of test plans (network and end user), development of integration and migration plans and process for turnover to the operational environment. As-built documentation and knowledge transfer are key deliverables. Design areas of focus are LAN Architectures (IP Routing Architecture, Layer 2 Switching), WAN Architectures (MPLS VPN, IPSEC VPN, and traditional VPN), WLAN Architectures, Optical Architectures (DWDM, SONET), Content Delivery Architectures, IPv6 and QoS Architectures.

Our design solutions are tailored to your specific needs and designed to create efficient costs while improving your power, cooling, and capacity.  We create these designs while also ensuring the highest level of reliability.  Our biggest accomplishment is creating a design that allows you to be effective today and well into the future.