One Step Consulting has designed, connected and run networks for carriers, service providers and enterprises since April 2003. For most of that time, operators have also used our BGP Community Guides, a public collection of the communities each provider honors for its customers.
What we do
- Carrier selection and carrier services: choosing upstreams, settling the terms before the circuit is ordered, and getting the controls you were promised.
- Peering and BGP policy, including route filtering in both directions.
- Network design and consolidation: LAN, WAN and data center networks built so they are easy to change.
- Running the network: monitoring, reporting, documentation, and the out-of-band access you reach for when the primary path is down.
- Disaster planning and recovery, traffic engineering, and training for the people who run the network day to day.
Where this is going
The networks our clients want next are ones that check their own state, notice when a device has drifted from the design, and put it back without waiting for a maintenance window. That is the outcome more than two decades of hand-built networks point toward, and it is the work we are doing now.
How to start
Most engagements begin with a network assessment: a scoped review of one part of your network, with a written report you keep whether or not we do the follow-on work. Talk with us to arrange one.