What makes an outstanding Data Network Design?
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In the digital age, having a robust and reliable data network is crucial for businesses and organisations to stay competitive and connected. But what sets apart an exemplary data network design from an outstanding one? In this article, we’ll delve into the key factors that make a data network exceptional and provide insights on elevating your network to the next level. Whether you’re an IT professional, business owner, or just curious about data networks, this is a must-read.
Let’s take a step by step into Outstanding Data Network Design
An outstanding data network design is the foundation of an efficient and secure organisation infrastructure. With the increasing reliance on technology and data, businesses must have a well-designed network to handle the demands of the modern digital landscape.
A well-designed data network provides a seamless flow of information, allowing employees to access the resources they need to perform their jobs effectively. It also helps to improve an organisation’s overall productivity by reducing downtime, minimising the risk of data loss, and ensuring reliable connectivity.
Furthermore, a robust data network design protects an organisation’s sensitive information. Cybersecurity threats are rising, and a poorly designed network can leave an organisation vulnerable to cyber-attacks and data breaches. On the other hand, an outstanding data network design includes multiple security measures, making it much more difficult for cybercriminals to penetrate the system.
In conclusion, an outstanding data network design is critical to any organisation’s Infrastructure. It helps to improve productivity, efficiency, and security and is essential for staying competitive in the fast-paced digital landscape. Organisations that invest in an outstanding data network design are better positioned to succeed in the long term.
Here are some statistics and facts about Mega Data Center Networks:
- According to a survey by IDC, data center network traffic is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 28% between 2018 and 2023.
- The global data center networking market is expected to reach $36.7 billion by 2023, growing at a CAGR of 6.9% from 2018 to 2023.
- Nearly 80% of data center network outages are caused by human error, such as misconfigured equipment or incorrect cabling.
- Over 50% of data center operators have adopted software-defined networking (SDN) to improve network management and automation.
- By 2023, it is estimated that over 95% of all data center traffic will be cloud-bound, requiring highly efficient and scalable data center networks.
- According to a survey by the Uptime Institute, 40% of organisations have faced network downtime in the past two years, resulting in a loss of productivity and revenue.
- For large enterprises, the average cost of a single hour of data center downtime is over $100,000.
- To keep up with the growing demand for bandwidth and the increasing complexity of data center networks, organisations are turning to advanced technologies such as network function virtualisation (NFV) and cloud networking.
These statistics highlight the importance of having a reliable and efficient data center network. Organisations must invest in advanced technologies and best practices to ensure their network can handle the growing demands of the digital landscape.
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Network Infrastructure Design
Knowledge and Experience come to mind when thinking about data network design. Whether there is just an extension of your network or the client is asking for a new Data Center design doesn’t matter. Our architects and senior network engineers come from zero-downtime environments; they have done a design number of times, so you are in safe hands.
Our architects and engineers can significantly contribute to the design phase. Combining their broad knowledge of Cisco and F5 vendors with their Experience of vast enterprise deployments and world-class managed services, we can understand and deliver your business requirements in the most complex and challenging projects.
What makes a good Network Design?
At the outset of the engagement, we would like to understand the fundamental requirements. Then, before taking up the technical design – we determine the goals to be achieved, limitations, and priorities of the network and the network infrastructure to be built.
Being aware of those aspects is crucial to creating an optimum design tailored to the requirements and limitations of our Clients. Also, we would like to hear about the ‘wish list’ – you never know, we might accommodate them within the design.
We always take into account those four key elements:
- Security – The network has to be secure. All those points are listed on our Cyber-Security page.
- Scalability – To accommodate business growth, the network has to adapt quickly without significant changes to the design. New network equipment can be added to the Backbone / Spine of the Infrastructure.
- Resiliency – In the event of power failure, hardware failure, or maintenance – network infrastructure needs to be seamless to the applications and end-user
- Performance – More demanding applications and users need a fast network environment to conduct day-to-day tasks.
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How we design LAN Networks
A Local Area Network is the backbone environment of an enterprise. Without it, nothing works. When designing a LAN network, our most tremendous focus is its reliability, resiliency, performance, and security. In the past, when you heard “LAN”, you thought of network switches connecting end-users and routers, enabling communication between sub-networks (VLANs). Today, the idea of LAN is much more complicated. Local area network design involves such aspects as Access Control Systems (NAC/802.1X), vPC – Virtual Port Channel, FEX – Fabric Extender Technology, FabricPath, monitoring and management blocks, threat detection systems, local firewalls segregating VRFs – Virtual Routing and Forwarding, guest access systems, and many more.
When designing LAN networks, it is essential to consider their segregation. LAN segregation into virtual networks (VLANs) allows for dividing a physical network into specific isolated areas. Thus, increasing security within individual sub-networks and using communication within the site more effectively is possible.
Besides the above aspects, during the design stage, it is essential to consider installing redundant devices that improve network resiliency and use proper security systems.
WAN Design – Multiple Path
The enterprise WAN architecture interconnects remote-site LANs to a primary site LAN or data center using various WAN technologies, including MPLS, Layer 2 WAN, and Virtual Private Network (VPN) WAN over the Internet. Enterprise WAN is designed to support multiple resiliency options depending on the business requirements for the remote sites. In addition, the WAN design methodology provides network access for wired and wireless users in remote areas.
This solution-level approach reduces the risk of interoperability problems between different technologies and components, allowing the customer to select the parts needed to solve a business problem. In addition, the architecture provides multiple options based on network scalability or service-level requirements where appropriate.
VPN Design – inspect traffic after termination
Designing a VPN solution means ensuring secure and reliable connectivity to network resources, focusing on security and firewall configuration and inspection. We can help you with several VPN solutions to satisfy the desired requirements.
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To provide a Continuous Service to their network infrastructure. Some businesses are very strict about the SLAs (Service Level Agreements), and relevant agreements can be achieved based on pricing schema. Costs are proportional to the level required – Continuous Service is expensive, but the benefits outweigh its costs.
The Service with provide to our clients:
Basic – 98.00% – 876 mins (14hrs 30mins) Un-managed Downtime Per Month
Enhanced – 99.00% – 438 mins (7hrs 30mins) Un-managed Downtime Per Month
Premium – 99.90% – 43 mins Un-managed Downtime Per Month
Highly Available – 99.99% – 4 mins Un-managed Downtime Per Month
Continuous Service – 99.999% – 26 seconds Un-managed Downtime Per Month
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