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Years of qualitative and quantitative experience in networking--LAN and WAN design--and network management, coupled with our staff's detailed knowledge of network components, grants COMgroup clients unique access to resources which are effective from design-to-deployment-to-management. Regardless of your organization's size or requirements, our staff is capable of successfully engineering, implementing and managing your company's WAN based on your business objectives, requirements and budget. Critical consideration for a WAN design:

Architecture:

    There are numerous methods WAN design, each with different protocol and advantages.

  • Separate voice & data networks
  • Converged voice & data WAN
  • Point to Point
  • Hub & Spoke
  • Fully meshed, redundant network

Security:

    Extending a company's network presents a multitude of decisions and challenges with regards to protecting a company's network.

  • Network elements - routers, firewalls, software
  • Outsourced VPN Management
  • Vendor managed VPN
  • In-house managed VPN

QoS/Reliability:

    Quality of service is relevant to the individual needs and requirements of an organization and should be tailored to meet the unique necessities and constraints.

  • Voice, video, priority data and non-priority data
  • Speed of throughput
  • Exceeds up-time requirements
  • Elimination or mitigation of points of failure
  • Redundant connectivity as necessary
  • Alternative access fail-over

Technology:

    The style and priority of networks traffic must be assessed and considered prior to selecting a network technology.

  • IP
  • VPN
  • Frame Relay
  • MPLS
  • ATM

Scalability:

    The ability to efficiently scale to meet the changing needs of a business is critical to a company's communications program.

  • Ability to scale bandwidth to accommodate growth
  • VoIP compatible
  • Video conferencing compatible
  • Capability to provide secure wireless access
  • International node connectivity

Expense Reduction & Management:

    The ability to control network related expenses exists fundamentally in the design & planning of a WAN.

  • Build to support present requirements & efficiently scale to accommodate future operations without a wholesale upgrade
  • Ability to remotely manage network components
  • Experienced negotiation with vendors & service providers
  • Future-Proof network for emerging technologies - VoIP, MP...