Technical Services
Network Design and Engineering
Excellence in network design involves a balancing act among a client’s many business and technical goals. These include requirements for availability, scale, performance, affordability, security and manageability. Before sitting down at the design table, Advanced Network Systems works closely with each client to carefully understand their current systems and specific business requirements. This specialized situational analysis makes our engineering and design services some of the most valuable we provide.
Our engineering team has extensive knowledge and experience in a wide variety of network technologies including protocols, devices, applications and security. Our ability to leverage our expertise, along with our broad base of engineering and technical capabilities, ensure that we successfully balance each client’s unique set of requirements with reliability, security and performance.
Network Inventory
A network inventory is designed to take the guesswork out of what's installed across your network. This analysis discovers all the software and hardware that reside on your desktops, laptops and servers and helps you identify which technology assets should be upgraded, maintained or removed.
Software. Collect detailed OS and system information, ensure application licensing compliance, catalog software serial numbers, re-use idle licenses and detect software policy or security violations.
Hardware. Extract a complete inventory of every hardware component within the network, collect in-depth hardware configuration on each device including model name, processor, memory, graphic cards, drives and more.
Service Highlights
- Identification of assessment objectives
- Active collection of the inventory information from local and remote devices
- Generation of detailed network inventory reports based on collected network audit information and specified data filters
Network Readiness Assessment
Advanced Network Systems’ assessment services lay the groundwork for successful new technology implementations by providing an objective picture of your current local area (LAN) or wide area (WAN) network. During a network assessment we investigate your network infrastructure in depth — taking into consideration a mixed network environment that may include mobility, security, multi-vendor and legacy equipment, voice and video.
This important service quickly identifies network issues that will compromise network performance and recommends measures that will ensure the network is properly configured and equipped to support whatever technology you chose to deploy.
Service Highlights
- Identification of assessment objectives
- Active testing and diagnostics deployed at the end user site or via remote connection
- Simulation of application-related traffic
- Passive monitoring of performance
- Analysis of conditions and the affect on service quality
- Comprehensive report of findings and recommended corrective actions
Security Audit
Security audits, also known as network vulnerability assessments (NVAs), are a pillar of network security. The overall objective of a Security Audit is to evaluate the controls over information that are in place and make recommendations for improvement. When regularly performed, they are a key component in helping organizations enhance data security and privacy, safeguard information and intellectual property, comply with regulatory concerns and reduce legal liability.
See our vulnerability assessment page for details.
Effective network security is a perpetual exercise. It involves policy implementations along with hardware and software settings that must be fine-tuned on an ongoing basis to avoid inadvertent weakening of your security. A security audit provides a complete examination of the network aimed at identifying risks, weak points, and potential threats.
Service Highlights
- Identification of audit objectives (compliance, etc.)
- A study of the overall system (hardware/software) and existing security measures and policies
- Probing/testing that simulates various internal and external exploits
- A report documenting security issues found
- An assessment interpreting results and prioritizing vulnerabilities according to risk level
- Specific recommendations for corrective action and implementation of “best security practices” for your organization
Wireless Site Survey
A site survey is the first step in the deployment of a wireless network and the most important step to ensure the system meets each client’s performance expectations. A site survey is a process by which the surveyor studies the facility or outdoor site to understand how radio frequencies will behave, discovers wireless coverage areas, checks for radio frequency interference from other devices, and determines the appropriate placement of wireless devices.
Service Highlights
- Identification of project and survey objectives
- Review of site/facility diagram to identify the potential radio frequency obstacles
- Physical inspection of the facility to look for potential barriers
- Identification and qualification of user areas
- Determine preliminary access point (AP) locations.
- Perform the actual surveying in order to verify optimal AP locations
- Document the findings(signal readings/ data rates)
