The assessment will consist of a full review of previous Cisco spend followed by a presentation covering all feedback, recommendations, and findings.
This session can also cover the latest network trends and threats, suggestions for improvements on energy consumption, and the ultimate delivery of your business objectives.
This process will allow you to have a plan in place to deal with managing your network over the long term and will give you visibility of the age, support status and refresh cycle of your network.
The Bytes team will get to know your current estate and what it is you are trying to achieve and will then highlight any security vulnerabilities, analyse potential energy savings, including PoE and then also provide feedback on the lifecycle status of your current network components.
Gather as much information as possible
Conduct both a technical and business review
Analyse against lifecycle milestones and associated support contracts
Analysis of the data carried out
Architecture mapping exercise
Create a set of prioritized recommendations
Roadmap against architectural objectives
Provided based on risk, cost, and strategy
Detailed recommendations against compliance, energy, environmental, and security policies
The assessment will cover the following: