Situation: Emerging technologies, enterprise-wide solutions, and business-to-business capabilities are placing new demands on enterprise networks. The days of separate infrastructure for voice, data and video are fading fast. Emerging voice and video applications have different service level requirements than any typical enterprise application. Audio/video applications require minimum delay and jitter-free end-to-end connectivity. In addition, these applications require consistently good response times. Slow response to a critical application is unacceptable, as this leads to inefficiencies and decreases productivity, which in turn impacts the bottom line of the business.

How do you, as a network engineer, ensure your voice packets aren’t getting over-run by streaming video, and you’re mission-critical applications aren’t failing due to retransmissions caused by collisions?

Blue Group Solution: Blue Group is comprised of a team of network engineers qualified in traffic engineering (TE) and QoS design and implementation. The guaranteed delivery of mission-critical applications and services requires a robust, reliable, and effective bandwidth management architecture coupled with QoS. The successful implementation of TE involves an in-depth analysis of the routing policies, protocols and services implemented on the routed network, and the implementation of various queuing techniques and processes to provide optimum use of available network bandwidth. The implementation of TE provides differentiated services that protects mission-critical application performance without sacrificing functionality of less critical applications. QoS entails rationalizing routing protocols and implementing policy-based routing strategies to provide intelligence into the enterprise network.

Deliverables: Blue Group will identify circuit patterns and traffic flows of applications and services present in your network via an in-depth network analysis. From this analysis, Blue Group will make a bandwidth management architecture recommendation with appropriate policies that is scalable and easy to use. Blue Group will partner with appropriate personnel to implement QoS with custom reporting to ensure the accuracy of the policies. This will provide differentiated services and QoS on the network, which will deliver guaranteed response times necessary for mission-critical applications for IP and non-IP protocols.

Results: Enterprises benefits from: