Depending on where you are in your company life-cycle, whether just starting up and building a network from scratch , upgrading an existing network, or relocating your architecture, there is a common set of expectations that everyone has for their network: Availability, Speed (throughput), Reliability, Scalability, Security, and finally Low cost and maintenance. Five Iron Technologies will work closely with you to understand your needs and goals. We will match the architecture and technology to your company's business needs, plans, and goals. We want to help you avoid implementing a network that continually needs to be "upgraded" or changed to meet business demands. "Build your network right the first time" does not translate to spend a ton of money up front either. We will help you decide on the right balance of cost versus performance including all aspects of a solid infrastructure previously mentioned, regardless of the size of your network. Whether your network has three desktops or three-hundred desktops, we are the partner for you.

 

How do we do this? We work diligently to outline your current and future needs. Your network should be flexible so sudden, unplanned change or growth does not cause enterprise-wide disruption. Your network should be secure and durable against outside intrusion and disasters. It needs to be scalable to support current and future capacity. We take all these considerations and align them with your financial concerns and budget to build the right technology environment for you. No overkill and nothing stretched too thinly.

 

Our engineers start with an enterprise audit which we use to outline and diagram your current infrastructure. Our business analysts interview your employees, managers, and executive team to build an accurate picture of your information flow and a solid outlook for the changes anticipated in your company, growth patterns expected, and technology needs and desires. Taking all this into consideration, Five Iron then creates a proposal that encompasses both information flow and physical infrastructure diagrams. We map out data flow, information sharing nets, logical use and business unit interaction. We provide network and enterprise design including LAN/WAN, Remote Access needs, Switching Infrastructure, and Wiring diagrams.

 

We sit down with you to go over the proposal and address all questions you have and make sure we have your needs, vision, and budget successfully captured. If you feel this design meets your needs, Five Iron would be ready to go to work in implementing the design based on phased approaches or rapid deployment, working with your in-house team or other firms as you desire.

Our capabilities extend to negotiating with vendors for the best possible prices on equipment. Our relationships with top OEM hardware and software manufacturers allow us to obtain excellent cost savings which we pass on directly to you. Five Iron can procure, install and implement the entire design; we even train your staff on use of new equipment and applications, working closely with your employees during the initial rollout/launch stages to achieve positive change management.

By choosing Five Iron Technologies for your network design and implementation needs, you are choosing a well organized, carefully planned, meticulously executed network infrastructure that is tailored to the needs of your organization today, and in the future.

 

Network Implementation Recommendations Include: Hardware:

Desktop / Laptop computers

File servers

Print servers

Application servers

Fax servers or solutions

Remote Access or VPN solutions

Web servers

Workstations

Wireless network architecture

Tape Backup solutions

Routers

Firewalls

NAT devices

Intrusion detection

Switches and Hubs

Management solutions (SNMP, etc)

UPS Battery backup and Generator solutions

Internet Connections and the required routers/hardware (T1, Broadband, ISDN, etc)

Network Printers

VoIP

 

Software:

Operating System

Office Suite of tools (Excel, Word, etc)

Application Software

Backup Software

Anti-virus (Server, Client, Email)

Fax Software

Database Software

Imaging Software

 

Services:

Installation and Implementation

Cabling

Training

Disaster Recovery Planning and Implementation

Support