Office, multi branch, retail chain, hotel, production, government, education or any other Medium or Large organisation IT infrastructure has to support many ever changing requirement such as:
Growing bandwidth;
High reliability;
Rapid and easy provisioning;
High Security;
High scalability;
Multi functionality & high integrity;
Quality of service;
Growing bandwidth requirements is especially important for expanding organisations, it is very important to foresee and plan it in advance. Different measures can be taken such as selecting a highly scalable solution which has a long term roadmap. Same time it is very important to control current solution cost, licensing can ensure organisations pay only for valuable features and bandwidth.
Most medium organisations have limited IT personnel, it is important to have a solution which guarantees low operation cost by rapid and easy provisioning. IT infrastructure management software can optimise network operations and improve security. Newest technologies such artificial intelligence can help identify IT infrastructure security and functionality issues.
It is important to select multi function highly integrated equipment. Such as access points with IOT support, besides standard services such access points can be expanded to provide IOT services such as valuable asset management, smart labels and sensor data collection. New generation firewalls will esure high network security and at the same time it can provide IPsec concentrator function, this function will ensure that organisation branches, traveling and home employees will access data via secure tunnels. Wireless network control can be supported on access point, router, switch or dedicated access control hardware.
It is always better to deploy high integrity multi function equipment and take appropriate backup measures instead of separate equipment for each function. Such a solution will have higher reliability, unified design, lower deployment and operation cost.
Quality of service functionalities will ensure that critical tasks can be executed without interruption. For example big file download cannot decrease important video conference meeting quality.
Purchasing part of a future proof solution will ensure safe long term investment and low expansion and operation cost.