One Step Consulting Inc. is a network consulting firm in Garden City, New York, founded in April 2003. We design, connect and run networks for carriers, service providers and enterprises, and the work has stayed the same kind of work for more than two decades: choosing and negotiating with upstream carriers, building peering and BGP policy, writing route filters, designing networks that are easy to change, and documenting them so the next engineer can run them.

How engagements start

Most work begins with an assessment: a defined review of one part of the network, delivered as a written report you keep. If the report points to work worth doing, we scope that as its own piece with a clear end. We do not name our clients, and we do not describe their networks. Their networks are theirs.

The BGP Community Guides

Early on, we began collecting the BGP communities each provider honors for its customers and publishing them in one place. Operators have used the collection ever since, first at onesc.net and now at onestep.net/communities; the old address still forwards. Each guide names its provider, its source and the date it was last verified, and corrections reach us at bgp-guide (at) onestep.net. The guides are free to use.

Who does the work

One Step is run by its founder, Charles Gucker. The person you talk with is the person doing the work, and when a project needs more hands he brings in engineers he has worked with before.

Where we are

501 Franklin Avenue, Suite 200, Garden City, NY 11530. Telephone (516) 713-7738. info@onestep.net.