Network Assessment

Your network might be performing well today, but is that the optimum performance? Is it prepared to meet the requirements of your organization’s short-term and long-term growth strategy? Is there some inefficiency, just waiting to show up as a network crisis?

A proactive network assessment is important to have a complete understanding of existing inefficiencies that could be a potential threat to network availability, performance, and cost optimization. It is also important to ensure that the network is robust and scalable to match up to the existing and future needs of your business.

Butler' Network Assessment Services

• Complete assessment of network
• Device configurations, and its inconsistencies information
• Validation of design against new and existing requirements
• Logical drawings and traffic flows by application
• Recommendations for bandwidth based on application
• Readiness for network upgrade to support / rollout of new applications

Butler's Network Assessment Advantages

Accurate baseline of network state for smart decision-making about planned modifications or new technologies.

• Clear insight into entire network bandwidth utilization by application, for each of the clients' locations.
• Information on the total number of IP's in use and on the IP that used most bandwidth.
• Early warning that helps avoid network crises
• Addresses network performance and availability issues
• Establishes the direction for planning a network that supports future business and technology requirements.

Typical Situations for an Assessment:

• Network life event (merger / acquisition, relocation, migration, technology addition
• Network expansion or modification
• Performance and reliability problems with applications running on the network
• E-business application implementation
• Bandwidth capacity planning for both application and network support
• Need to decrease overall network cost
• Need for independent validation of current infrastructure or future plans

Typical Scope of Assessment Services:

• Interview IT and business managers and document business and user requirements
• Measure and document network performance and functionality
• Identify critical applications and vital data impacting the network
• Map network topology including protocols and logical drawing
• Analyze traffic patterns including utilization and throughout statistics
• Inventory of network hardware, software, and skills.
• Check routers and switch codes, logs, device errors. CPU and memory utilization

Deliverables

• Statement of Network Requirements documented to provide a road map for operational success
• Network discovery including: topology map, local traffic pattern analysis, component level inventory, router and switch assessment.
• A network assessment report documenting our findings, identifying the gaps between actual design and user/business requirements and our recommendations.
• Business impact prioritization recommendations.
• Detailed reports about network strengths, weaknesses and vulnerabilities.
• Specific strategies to improve performance, reliability, availability and security.
• An assessment of your overall networking capabilities which take into consideration technology maturity, IT people skills, training, and IT processes
• Review of network design including topology, IP addressing, routing, security, physical/logical redundancy, and load balancing
• Identification of opportunities for network consolidation, simplification and cost reduction

What our customer say:

"User complaints about the performance and reliability of our network prompted us to contact Butler for a network Assessment. Their experts evaluated various network components and our overall design to ensure optimal component configuration and performance. Butler’s Network Assessment report identified all of our performance and reliability issues and provided recommendations for resolutions. For the first time, we had a Business and User Requirements document for our network, and Butler’s recommendations allowed to resolve a number of major issues that directly impact our revenue stream"
- W. D. Chief Information Officer