Network Design & Implementation

Design needs are seldom satisfied by a 'one size fits all' approach. Effective network implementation services help avoid defects or cost overruns. Strategic Network design and implementation ensures that the Network performs optimally and lives up to the client’s present and future business requirements.

Butler provides design services customized to match the functional, technical and business requirements of the client. Our Solution architects offer objective, unbiased advice, as we do not have exclusive vendor partnerships and do not sell hardware products. We work with best of breed products for your environment to provide optimal solutions.

 

Typical Situations for Network design & Implementation

Butler Network Design & Implementation Advantages:

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

Butler's Network Design Services

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

Butler's Network Implementation Services

• Technology consolidation and simplification, reconfiguring and upgrading network elements, system and facilities

• Documenting the physical logical network
• Router, switch and CSU/DSU installation
• Carrier service management
• Operating system migration and upgrades

Design Deliverables:

We deliver design documentation that identifies the specific technologies to be used and how these technologies are configured and implemented.

Architecture Design Documentation Including:

• Network design
• Network diagrams
• Transport protocol
• Topology recommendations
• Forecast of future capacity demands
• Hardware and software components 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

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 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

What our customer say:

"When an issue surfaced due to the distribution of a major virus, we realized that our network did not live up to performance expectations. We engaged Butler to create a design to enhance our network performance. Butler analyzed our existing network and developed business requirements to foster a better understanding of our requirements for Internet access. Butler’s design consolidated the control of the firewalls and overall network security within one group for support, enabling us to quickly respond to future changes in network security posture. Additionally, the use of network-wide policy deployments ensures that our network is protected."

- J.R. Vice President, IT and support services

Typical Situations for Network Design & Implementation:

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