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Plan Smartly: Map Your Network Design With Data In Mind

With so many components to a functioning network – performance, security, and monitoring, just to name a few – it’s easy to let what seem like minor details go unaddressed in your network design.Map Your Network Design

When you’re implementing expensive hardware and software, you can’t afford to let overlooked details related to data flow compromise your investments.

Keeping data and traffic flow at top of mind is essential to optimizing these enormous investments.

However, you may not be aware of certain limitations of a given device, nor the various ways to deploy or install it. With your daily demands, it’s difficult to stay current on the latest in network design.

Learn about support that helps you ensure the best flow of data and network traffic, maximizing the effectiveness of your high-priced devices.

A Network Design Discussion And Consultation

In order to ensure the sanctity of your network, you must first answer several fundamental network management questions. These concern the presence of different applications, existing hardware, media and more.

Below are some sample questions Garland Technology would ask you to understand your network and needs: 

  • What security or in-band appliance(s) are you looking to install?
  • How many links need to be tapped? 
  • Can you provide the quantity of links per rack location? (To size the right modular chassis)
  • Are your links copper or fiber? If fiber, are they multi-mode or single-mode fiber? 
  • What is the speed? 1G, 10G, 40G, and 100G

With the answers to these questions, Garland Technology design experts create a whiteboard drawing (and later, a Visio drawing) to visualize the design of your network. Whether it’s Garland or you yourself, mapping out your network is critical to ensuring the flow of your data.

Drawing Your Network Design And Traffic Flow

With a physical drawing, you should depict where traffic comes in, goes out and flows through. It can go to your distribution layer, server farms (which can access internet/desktop connections), or out to wide area network.

In essence, the data and traffic flow can be very complex.

A drawing helps you understand the flow of your network  – essential to determining where to capture appropriate data and how to send it to appropriate devices, including:

  • Monitoring tools
  • Security tools
  • Content filtering tools
  • Analyzers

Below is an actual drawing of what Garland produces for you. 

 Visio Drawing  

Whether it’s on your own or with the support of a network management and data access expert, take the necessary steps to flawlessly plan your network design and ensure the flow of data to your expensive devices.

Schedule a consultation to discuss your needs and map out a network design that ensures proper data access.

 

 

 

How to Guide: Optimizing Network Design in Security Projects  

 

Written by Chris Bihary

Chris Bihary, CEO and Co-founder of Garland Technology, has been in the network performance industry for over 20 years. Bihary has established collaborative partnerships with technology companies to complement product performance and security through the integration of network TAP visibility.

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