Look at your existing infrastructure and identify necessary changes to meet future infrastructure requirements.
Consider your bandwidth needs to support your organisation and look at all the sites and locations that need to be covered to build the underlying IT strategy to support your connectivity requirements.
You also need to understand your traffic patterns and workloads as you adopt a cloud-centric infrastructure.
Build out your network with a carrier-agnostic approach to gain greater coverage, network diversity and high-availability solutions to create a secure, yet nimble network with almost 100% uptime.
Think about evolving technologies in the Networking space; software-defined networking (SD-WAN) can bring benefits such as agility and choice when it comes to designing the network.
Go full fibre. Local full fibre networks deliver reliable, scalable and robust network connectivity for authorities, businesses and citizens.
With minimum speeds of 1Gbps, the service can expand to support 40Gbps services and beyond.
With local full fibre networks, you can expect higher levels of performance, a highly secure network and superfast speeds.
Hackers are sophisticated – and hungry. As your business grows, so does the threat landscape.
You need to ensure you are protecting all your assets wherever they may reside; across endpoint, network and cloud.
Look to deploy an end-to-end security service that includes products at multiple layers from the access network, through the core and out to the perimeter, to ensure your data is protected and your online presence and services remain available to legitimate users.
To deploy secure and cost-effective next generation public services, compliance and governance issues must be identified and addressed.
Look for a network provider who is accredited to provide a fully managed service to support your connectivity plans and who holds a set of foundation certifications including PSN, HSCN, CAS(T) Security and ISO/IEC.
* http://www.analysysmason.com/Research/Custom/Reports/Fixed-Internet-traffic-forecasts-Feb2013-RDTW0/Sample-pages-and-table-of-contents/
