Every company needs an efficient and reliable network to support its communications and business operations. A fast network has become a key component for thriving in today’s competitive market. Apart from handling internal communications, a computer network is essential for providing e-commerce services and remote access to resources. Be it an enterprise, a multinational company or a single office organization, everyone needs a robust network infrastructure. But design and deployment of such a network is a challenging task.
All the business operations depend on the efficiency of its underlying computer network. The interconnected servers, routers, storage systems, and computers work together for business productivity. Therefore, the design stage of your business network should be executed very carefully. Whether you are building a LAN or a WAN, your network design should overcome the following network deployment challenges–
Scalability:
Your organization will constantly demand additional resources. The grown demand may come from the increased number of employees, online services or from an increased number of users. Often, you will require additional storage for the enormous data that is produced each day. To meet the increasing demand, companies need to re-platform their existing network infrastructure. Though it is not impossible, it takes a lot of coordination and efforts to make the transition smooth. You may require additional ports, new routers, servers and new software to monitor your systems. Re-platforming can be seen as buying a larger house to fit a growing family.
Cost Efficiency:
The deployed network should be cost effective for your business. It should work on its peak performance without causing additional troubles. Also, there are a number of network devices with different functionalities and cost. Your network designer should try to minimize the cost of devices but still maintain the functionalities. It should be a goal of your IT professionals to develop a cost-effective network design. The greatest network design can be useless due to high implementation and support costs. A network deployment should consolidate infrastructure to take advantage of the cheaper bandwidth and hardware resources.
Easy Maintenance:
After you deploy a new network for your business productivity, you also need to monitor its vital status. You have already spent thousands of dollars on buying the servers and routers. A link failure, a surge in power supply, increased demand for resources or a failed cooling system can cause a severe damage to these expensive components. Therefore, a deployed network should have a maintenance plan that minimizes human resources. The deployment should consider automation so that companies can focus on core business operations.
Robust Infrastructure:
A network is comprised of numerous interconnections between servers, routers and the end systems. An organization that provides a set of online services to its customers may receive heavy traffic throughout the day. The worst thing that any company can imagine is the isolation of its services. A successful business can suffer the loss of thousands of dollars due to downtime. A broken link or a malfunctioned router can isolate an entire subnetwork. The network design and deployment should have advanced plans so that any failed component can be bypassed. Doing so is extremely necessary for continuity of the running business operations.
Cyber Security:
Cybersecurity is the matter of utmost importance for any organization. As your business reputation will grow, people with a good IT background can attempt to breach your network. Vital reasons can be for ransom, for selling your research to your competitors, for their entertainment, etc. Anyone with a knowledge of computer networks can remotely lock your systems. Such a malware can cause serious downtimes and data loss. Therefore, internet security should not be considered an additional feature in network design and deployment. It is one of the architectural pillars of your IT infrastructure. Every part of your network should be secured from possible attacks. This includes installing a firewall, regularly updating your antivirus and implementing a computer security policy for your employees.
Natural Disasters:
You have successfully deployed a network in your organization. It is running as per your expectations. But suddenly, the building that houses your servers is on fire. All the equipment are burnt down. Your online services are no longer available. Natural disasters are out of human control. You can protect an expensive networking equipment from a virus but you cannot prevent it from an earthquake.
The only solution for quick recovery from a natural disaster is having a backup server and router. The deployed network should have additional equipment located in a different geographical location. They can be reserved with your vendor or could be in your company’s warehouse.
Conclusion:
The current business environment demands organizations to prioritize scalability and network security when creating their networks. Organizations, both large and small need to place a budget deployment model. Their network should run 24/7 without lagging performance. Â It is the job of an IT administrator to make sure that the deployed network is functioning properly. After all, it is the backbone of your organization.
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