Features and Benefits
| Feature | Feature Description | Benefit |
|---|---|---|
| Review of customer's business requirements and detailed network infrastructure design | Geekondoor Professional Services Consultants will engage with your team to conduct a workshop and review the high-level network infrastructure design. This workshop presents an opportunity for both teams to discuss and understand each major functional area and any specific requirements. | Eliminate the anxiety of leaving out important information when re-architecting your network infrastructure. Geekondoor Consultants will ensure that the new network infrastructure design is aligned with your stated business and technical goals, eliminating costly redesigns and lost time. |
| Documenting the low-level network infrastructure design | Geekondoor will produce a document describing the low-level network infrastructure design in detail. This typically includes general network design, topology, network security, logical addressing, protocol information, configuration templates and scalability, and high-availability guidelines. | Optimize your staff's time by entrusting the responsibility of researching, defining, and documenting the new network infrastructure design to Geekondoor's experienced consultants. |
| Knowledge transfer, readout, and project sign-off | Geekondoor will host a detailed session to help your team understand the proposed network infrastructure design or design changes. This allows you to plan for the next project steps such as migration, deployment, and ongoing operations. | Optimize your resources and reduce your operating expenditure by maximizing the usage of Geekondoor network infrastructure design during implementation, operation, and service rollout. |
| Project management input | Geekondoor will assign a Professional Services Consultant who serves as a single point of contact to assist with the administration and management of the Service deliverables. | Reduce the risk to your project by engaging experienced project management to determine and track task lists, dependencies, responsibilities, timelines, and milestones. |
Service specifications
Geekondoor Networks Responsibilities
The Geekondoor Networks engineer will provide the following:
- High-level design review workshop
- Low-level design development
- Customer review of the design
- Project management input for Geekondoor service deliverables
- Regular deliverables status updates for the project team
Customer Responsibilities
The customer will provide the following:
- Current high-level and detailed design documents for the existing network infrastructure
- Business and design requirements and goals that typically include information around:
- Resiliency
- Connectivity
- Requirements related to class of service (CoS) and quality of service (QoS)
- Topology description
- Description of new services to be provided by the network infrastructure
- Description of legacy services that need to remain
- Peering and provider routing
- Scale requirements and constraints
- Network reliability
- High availability
- A technical contact who signs off on completed work
Low-Level Design Deliverables
- Low-level design document