Conducting a comprehensive network analysis can help to ensure your network meets current and future communications requirements, while protecting your overall network investment.

Working closely with your information technology team, we can provide a comprehensive, extended, end-to-end network analysis to evaluate your entire local and wide area networks. Our experts can assess your current network conditions and make recommendations to improve network performance and reliability.

High Point Networks Analysis services are performed in three phases: project planning, data collection, and data analysis/reporting/documentation. This phased approach presents a final detailed network performance report, including verified network diagrams, traffic flows, and usage statistics.

Phase I: project planning

The project planning phase is comprised of a meeting or series of meetings in which a HPN representative works with your team to discuss the HPN Analysis Questionnaire and develop the objectives, procedures, and activities of the project. The focus of the meeting(s) is to determine exactly which segments and elements will be targeted during the data collection process, as well as any specific parameters that should be measured in each area.

Phase II: data collection

During the data collection phase, the HPN representative uses network analysis tools to conduct systematic, thorough collection of data in accordance with the goals established in the planning phase. This procedure, which occurs over a one to five day period, depending on the number of segments being monitored, typically includes an initial assessment through real time trace data review, a monitoring period for traffic load patterns, and a data harvest for offsite analysis. 

Phase III: data analysis/reporting/documentation

Following the data collection process, the HPN representative will review the information on network traffic for each measured segment and prepare a detailed report. This report typically provides an analysis and explanation of:

• Transmission reliability - Identifies retransmission errors, congested links, connection problems, and duplex mismatches.
• Loading patterns - Analyzes network utilization, average frame sizes, and errors.
• Traffic types - Determines protocol and frame size distribution.
• Station traffic and error statistics - Uncovers slow response times.
• Most active and/or error-prone stations.

The network analysis report will also assist the HPN representative in helping you answer several of today's top IT Manager's questions, including:

• What are the traffic types that flow within my Network? Is this traffic intended to flow as it does now? Do I have alternate paths? Can I make this flow more efficient?
• Are my servers, routers, switches, and other networking devices configured correctly? Am I having any resource bottlenecks?
• Are my most critical information infrastructure resources redundant and correctly configured for high availability?
• How can I get a quick status of all my network resources and their performance?
• Is my network infrastructure scalable enough to meet future growth and demands? Is my network ready for introduction of any known upcoming technologies?
• Do I have proper network diagrams and documentation in place?
• How much trust can I place on my network management systems? Do I have proactive monitoring systems in place to avoid any potential network failures? Is this information really used by my staff?
• Are my contingency and disaster recovery plans capable of helping the organization recover swiftly and rapidly, in the event of a catastrophe?