The Challenge: Growth Happens
Networks grow. Products retire. Documentation lags. Weaknesses are exposed. Most networks have grown over long periods of time. In many cases, devices that were installed five years ago—when the company was a fraction of its current size and revenue—are still in use.

Aging products are more prone to failure, especially unsupported devices that are lacking in features and the necessary security patches. Your IT staff may be over-extended or inexperienced in implementing best practices. Building your business around an outdated, suboptimal network infrastructure may result in decreased employee productivity, unnecessary exposure to outside security threats and the lack of business continuity.

The Solution: Optimize360
Network Architects developed Optimize360, a network assessment service to address these issues:

• What are the network’s strengths and / or weaknesses?
• Is the network ready to take advantage of Unified Communications
  and IP Telephony?
• Exactly what network devices are deployed?
• What network devices need to be updated?
• What network devices should be retired?
• What is required to lock down network devices?
• What solutions are right for our needs?
• How should these solutions be implemented?

Optimize360 is delivered in four steps:

• Interview— Determine business goals and objectives that drive technical requirements
• Discover— Deploy analysis tools and probes to gather data from existing infrastructure
• Analyze— Compile reports, evaluate data, and develop solution recommendations
• Present—- Review findings with Executive team and technical decision makers
  
  

Optimize360 options are summarized below:

The Deliverables

• Executive summary assessment “report card”
• Detailed analysis supporting the report card info²
• A high-level diagram of the existing network
• Inventory of network devices, including device name, model #, and serial #
  (where available)
• Cisco product end-of-life report
• Cisco security advisory report (PSIRTs)