Network Design & Implementation

Design needs are seldom satisfied by a ‘one size fits all’ approach. Butler provides design services customized for your functional, technical and business requirements. Butler's solution architects offer objective, unbiased advice we do not have exclusive vendor partnerships and do not sell hardware products. Instead, we work with the best of breed products for your environment, providing optimal solutions. Our Network Implementation service helps you avoid defects or cost overruns. We get the job done right the first time, without interrupting your operations.

• Support for multi-vendor network solutions
• Addresses network performance, security, availability, and scalability
• Supports e-business initiatives, technology consolidations and upgrades
• Proven implementation methodology
• Full life cycle design support

Typical situations for Network Design & Implementation

• Life event (merger/acquisition, relocation, migration, expansion)
• Moving from Frame Relay to MPLS
• Adding VOIP services
• Adding Quality of Service (QoS) to ensure application performance
• Need to upgrade bandwidth capacity and availability
• Connecting remote sites to the corporate data center
• Consolidating many LANs into one WAN
• Security breach or concerns
• Chronic connectivity, performance or scalability problems
• Desire to decrease costs
• e-business implementations

Typical scope of Network Design Services

• Architecture design
• Defining functional requirements
• Developing multi-vendor integration plans
• Developing engineering specifications and technical documents
• Service level agreement and performance metrics
• Security and firewall design
• Proof of concept to validate design and meet requirements
• Performance, availability, scalability, manageability

Typical scope of Network Implementation Service

• Technology consolidation and simplification, reconfiguring and upgrading network elements, systems, and facilities
• Documenting the physical, logical network
• Router, switch and CSU/DSU installation
• Carrier service management
• Operating system migration and upgrades

Typical design deliverables

We deliver design documentation that identifies the specific technologies to be used and how these technologies will be configured and implemented. Deliverables include:

Architecture Design Document including:

• Network design
• Network diagrams
• Transport protocol
• Topology recommendations
• Forecast of future capacity demands
• Hardware and software component selection
• Engineering bill of materials
• Performance baseline analysis
• Patch/revision history
• Project Implementation Plan including resource requirements, budget and Quality Assurance plan
• Business continuity and disaster recovery recommendations

Typical implementation deliverables

Network implementation services are defined by your unique requirements ranging from a router installation where we assist your staff, to an enterprise wide ‘turnkey’ delivery of the network where we lead, develop and deliver a complete solution to you. We deliver value-added services such as:

• Implementation project plan
• Progress and variance reports
• Knowledge transfer and post implementation support
• On-site/Off-site project management
• Project documentation with full audit trail for change orders
• Complete documentation of our work