Network Design and Implementation

At Synergasia we believe in helping you to understand the options so, when we are planning a logical network design, we generally start from one of two places. We can design and install a new network from scratch, or we can upgrade an existing network. Either way, we will gather information about several important factors before we begin the logical design. For example, depending on the services that will be provided to clients, we might need to analyse the possible traffic patterns that might result from your plan. Locate potential bottlenecks and, where possible, alleviate them by providing multiple paths to resources or by putting up servers that provide replicas of important data so that load balancing can be provided.

The following are other factors we might consider:

Who are the clients? What are their actual needs? How have these needs been determined?—from user complaints or from help-desk statistics? Is this data reliable?

What kinds of services will we provide on the network? Are they limited in scope? Will any involve configuring a firewall between LANs? And if so, that still doesn't account for configuring a firewall to enable access to the Internet.

Will we need to allow an Internet connection for just your internal network's users, or will you need to allow outside vendors access to the network?  What will it cost to evaluate what kind of services user groups need to access from the Internet? Will we need to allow all users to use email—both within the internal network and through the firewall on the Internet? The same goes for what sites users will be allowed to access using a network browser and other network applications. Will we have users who work from home and require dial-in or VPN access through the Internet?

In all we give you the best possible advise and then help you to implement and manage your new network infrastructure.