Good morning team, as you know there was a site survey performed for our client Sifers-Grayson on Monday morning. This meeting is to review any issues uncovered during the site survey and the recommendations we can offer our client. Sifers-Grayson already has two redundant wide area network connections, but we need to explain why having two separate (redundant) wide area network connections from the campus area network to the internet is important.
We need to convey to our client that the most important reason for our recommendation of installing two separate (redundant) wide area network connections is to avoid a single and even multiple points of failure in communication or data access with/between their employees or clients. A failure of this magnitude could result in the loss of business and their professional image being altered. If you have a single point of failure and it fails you, then you …show more content…
We will focus on the following two. The first is having a WAN line and WAN hardware redundancy by having your two leased-lines that are both active. Both connections having a back-up are more expensive but more reliable because the router and line has a back-up. An alternative tactic is to have the two lines but one active and one passive. You will minimize the cost by having one line slower.
It’s important that we ensure to communicate some important practices that should be used when acquiring redundant network connections. A risk analysis must take place and the core site must be taken in consideration. After those considerations, a cost analysis session and solution should be completed. Next, during the deployment if in-house resolutions are used, the employees need to know how to handle an incident. If out-sourced, the vendor/provider needs to have a plan to recover from a disaster. Lastly, a test plan should also be considered in both set-ups (Natário, & profile,