Mission critical services in today's public and private networks are more dependent every day on smoothly functioning network infrastructures. You need to provide new types of services and increase the availability of network infrastructures while these environments grow in both size and complexity. All technologies have to inter-work and inter-operate. Installation and maintenance procedures for these new infrastructures have become most challenging.
The financial impact of system failures or installation problems is essential in order to determine the optimum infrastructure. New behavior and dynamics introduced by application and quality of service based routing and switching mechanisms have resulted in about two thirds of root causes for networking problems now occurring in OSI layer 3 (network layer - IP) and above.
The changes in network infrastructures and services have resulted in a new direction for network maintenance. Problems at the IP and higher layers tend to propagate across networks at a much higher speed than lower layer problems. Intersegment devices or different network topologies do not represent a barrier for this category of failures. On the contrary, in many cases, associated devices such as switches, routers and gateways, are even part of the root cause. Symptoms appear at different locations in very different forms, and they are significantly more difficult to isolate and resolve.
Today's networks require a comprehensive installation and maintenance strategy. All business processes and routines relevant to network installation and maintenance must be reviewed regularly for effectiveness and efficiency.
To ensure that real time traffic flows effectively and efficiently across your networks you need to allocate resources to designing and maintaining your network for such traffic. SimsTech can assist you in optimizing your network for real time traffic whilst still meeting your business service level agreements for data traffic.
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