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The Business Challenge
Organizations rely heavily on their IT infrastructure for day-to-day communications and business transactions. As traffic demands grow and expand into real time voice and video, there is an increasing need for long range network planning to ensure adequate network capacity, resiliency, availability, and manageability. This need is even more critical as customers demand consistent experiences across local, remote, wired, and wireless network infrastructures. Yet the reality is that long term planning is often neglected due to pressing short term operational issues.
The AT&T Solution
AT&T Consulting Solutions provides a range of solutions to help you develop an appropriate network infrastructure roadmap. Key activities from our Strategy and Roadmap services include:
- Assessment of current state capabilities
- Applications discovery (current and future)
- Discovery and validation of business and technology requirements, including disaster recovery, network security and management
- Recommendations for an optimized infrastructure
- Analysis of alternative technology solutions
- Development of a roadmap (including tactical and strategic tasks)
Technology areas of focus include:
- LAN (IP Routing Architecture, Layer 2 Switching)
- WAN (MPLS VPN, IPSEC VPN, Traditional VPN)
- WLAN (WiFi, WiMAX, Fixed Mobility Convergence)
- Optical (DWDM, SONET)
- Content Delivery (Multimedia IP Communications, Application Acceleration)
- QoS
Solution Benefits
- "Right sizes" your network strategy and investment based on forecasted need, availability, and compliance requirements
- Ensures consensus and alignment between key application, system, and network stakeholders
Services Summary
- Application Profiling and Modeling
- Content Networking Planning
- LAN / WAN Planning
- MPLS Planning
- Optical Planning
- Quality of Service (QoS) Planning
- Wireless LAN Planning
- Whiteboard Session
