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Designing a network begins with an assessment of what business goals and technology requirements you want to accomplish. Alpine employs best practices and industry standards when designing a network to ensure that the end design will meet current and future growth expectations. Upon completion of the initial network assessment Alpine follows a consistent approach to designing a network that will simplify the complex challenge and ensure that the end design will provide the functionality, performance, scalability and robustness you require. The following depicts a typical assessment of your requirements.
Size the Network:
Alpine will work with you to define the network requirements:
• Number of locations or expected growth
• Number of current users and growth expectations
• Type of applications required for all users
• Capacity currently required and future expectations
• Storage requirements
• Security requirements
Connectivity Decisions:
Alpine will work with you to define:
• Type of external and internal connections required for the network
• Internet access and capabilities
• Wireless access and requirements
• Bandwidth requirements
Design the Network:
Upon completion of the network scale and functional requirements Alpine will work with you to design the network based on:
• Bandwidth technology options determined by user and functional requirements:
o Shared for low bandwidth users (i.e. shared 100Base-T Ethernet)
o Dedicated for high bandwidth users (i.e. switched 100Base-T Ethernet)
o Higher bandwidth for multimedia applications (i.e. streaming video)
o Backbone bandwidth (i.e. Gigabit, Terabyte)
• Basic infrastructure requirements:
o Cabling requirements
o Network equipment: Routers, Servers, Wireless, Switches, Storage, Firewalls
o Operating systems (i.e. Microsoft, Unix, Linux, proprietary)
o End user equipment (i.e. desktops, notebooks, hardware, software, imaging, wireless)
• Support Services:
o Hardware & Software Support
o Data Back-up
o Help Desk
o Imaging
o Configuration
o Anti-virus & Spyware
o Remediation Services
o SPAM
o Installation
o Repair & Spare parts
o Remote Management & Monitoring
o Asset Tagging
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