PILEUM Network Planning services provide our clients with strategic, operational, and tactical reviews of their current network and future requirements. Using our structured, proven methodologies, we identify critical business, technical, and operational requirements, develop comprehensive project and program plans, assess technologies, and recommend courses of implementation.

Features
Our Network Planning services typically include the following activities:

> Documenting client business requirements
> Developing strategic network architectures
> Performing network baseline, network manageability, and security audits
> Preparing capacity plans for the physical network, including bandwidth
   allocations for protocols and applications
> Specifying preferred technologies
> Planning for implementation of specified technologies

Benefits
Network planning is essential to ensuring high-performance, long-term network operations. Our understanding of both business requirements and networking technologies helps us plan new networks and evolve existing networks to maximize efficiency, lower your costs, and enhance your business processes.

Deliverables
Client deliverables for network planning are defined in the statement of work or program proposal provided during the initial account development meeting. Examples of deliverables that are often provided under Network Planning services include findings and recommendations for the following items:

> Technology assessments and integration plans
> Network utilization baselines
> Development of client-defined program and project plans
> Network upgrade programs and high-level implementation plans
> Routing protocol upgrade and migration plans
> IP addressing and sub-netting plans

Duration
Our Network Planning services are scaled to the complexity of your business and to your requirements. Typical engagements run from one to four weeks for each major deliverable.