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Case Study
Faulty Wide Area Network (WAN) - Technical network solutions
help future
growth
The Challenge
We were introduced to the client through a referral in regards to
correcting a faulty Wide Area Network (WAN) implementation. The client
has an advanced networking need that requires a reliable WAN connection
with their satellite office location. The existing 56 K dedicated
point-to-point WAN connection was not meeting their needs and had become
counter productive. The client was at a loss; data transfer rates were
dangerously slow and
corrupting databases, it was an incompatible solution that was very
costly in productivity and time management as well as resources to fix
corrupt data.
The Approach
We completed the Network Consulting Documentation, engineering two
options that would meet the needs for this client today, and encompass
their future growth:
Option one - increase data pipeline from a 56k to a T1
Option two - decrease the data size being transferred over the WAN
After an in-depth discussion with the client,
option two of reducing data size was chosen, since the existing file
server had been outgrown by company expansion. The server was demoted
from its status of primary domain server to an application server for
the remote office through terminal server service.
A new Domain Controller was installed to
service the main and remote facilities' data needs while our technical
network solution was to install Terminal Server on the application
server which enabled the remote office to use the necessary applications
and data over the 56K WAN
RGC, Rex Global, checkpoint, Check Point, IP telephony,
microsoft windows 2003, computers, hardware, software,
networking, ethernet, routers, Internet, server,
wireless, computer networking, VPN, firewalls, intranet,
Enterprise products, Information Technology, LANs, VLAN,
WANs, SANs, MANs, network, Network Computing, protocols,
storage, data storage, security, Infrastructure,
wireless, systems, enterprise networks, Network
Management, telecommunications, telecomm, viruses,
worms, hackers, distributed computing, privacy,
monitoring, messaging, directories, extranets, SNMP,
voice, Voice over IP, VOIP, gigabit, Internet telephony,
Windows, Windows 2000, Windows vista, Windows XP,
switches, networking equipment, cisco router, computer
networking, catalyst, cisco, CISCO, Cisco, nortel
networks, nortel, ip phone, rexglobal.com, internet
security, nokia, linksys, microsoft, smart modular,
smartnet, network module, GBIC, expansion module,
gigabit, stack, stackwise, stackable, technical support,
cnet, 802.11, 802.11a, 802.11b, 802.11g, access point,
government, network engineer, network security
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