Network Audit
It is vital that your network infrastructure keeps apace with your business growth, therefore our Network Audit Service is a must to avoid potential problems caused by rapid expansion.
Your IT environment is built around your network infrastructure. Over time, the new and different demands being placed on your network may mean performance, scalability and resilience deteriorate. Our services can help determine how well your existing infrastructure is working, and we can advise on new services and applications that may be required, and make recommendations on:
- How to improve current performance
- How best to accommodate future growth
- How to maximize ROI (Return on investment) of existing systems
The IT department is ideally qualified to provide you with a detailed analysis of your current network and recommend changes or additions that will optimize performance.
Depending upon your requirements we can investigate a specific issue or we can conduct a more comprehensive network audit. The areas we can assist you with include:
- Network architecture: review and definition
- Network system hardware and software configuration inspections
- Review and documentation of the physical layout of your network (including media and physical topology)
- Network application performance evaluation
- Current and future network traffic and load analysis
- Evaluation of network interoperability issues
- Operational recommendations for your network system
- Evaluation of network usage by application and user
- Application performance profiling and benchmarking
- Recommendations for ongoing network / system monitoring
Report & recommendations
Following the network analysis stage, we will provide a comprehensive report of our findings. This will be coupled with recommendations for improving your current infrastructure and planning for future growth. These may include:
- Recommended network configuration to support new network based applications
- Optimizing the current network configuration in both the LAN and WAN environments
- Identification of actual and potential problems related to network load or network based software