A highly under-rated element of any network is the time and care taken to properly design and architect the network for growth, change and most importantly, the ease of change.

When designing a network, you want to take into account all of the possible relationships between your network and your business. Planning for expansion and being prepared for any request will keep you ahead of your competitors.

A network diagram can be invaluable for staff members who wish to troubleshoot a network outage or for management to understand the desired concepts without all of the technical details.

Here are a few examples of network diagrams we have created in the past.
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Design for the next way of running it

The ease of change has a newer consequence. A network designed with consistent addressing, naming and policy, and documented in a form a program can read as well as a person, can later be driven from a model of the intended state instead of being edited one device at a time. The design work is the same. The discipline is to make the same decision the same way everywhere, and to write it down where it can be checked. Networks designed that way are the ones that can later check and repair themselves; the ones that are not stay hand-built.

Contact us, to find out how One Step Consulting can help enhance your network design and documentation.