Industrial Control Networks include SCADA and DCS networks. These networks control automated production facilities that may control water systems, refinery operations, manufacturing, waste water, electricity generation and transmission, and chemical plants. These networks must be fail-safe, reliable, and secure. As the use of networks in production facilities increases, concerns about safety, reliability, and security also increase.

We have the experience and skills to build networks that can meet these challenges.

Managing medium to large networks can be time consuming and difficult. Telecommunications problems, hardware failures, host outages, and configuration issues take vital resources to manage and maintain. Our network management services can help with these problems.

Network Management provides organizations the ability to understand the status of the network. This includes providing statistics on network status, configuration changes, equipment failures, and performance. This information is vital to indentifying where network bottlenecks exist, troubleshooting failures or performance problems, performing configuration management, and understanding long-term trends.

We have designed and implemented some of the most popular network management systems, including HP OpenView, Solar Winds, NetSaint, and Cisco Works. We have experience using Manager of Manager (MOM) systems that can centrally monitor the health of an entire network environment.

Legacy systems are systems that have fallen behind current technologies but are vital to a business. These systems often use mainframe and minicomputer architectures that support proprietary networks and applications. As the networks or applications get older their problems multiply, components fail, new components may not exist, support is no longer provided, and performance is dated. Working with these environments requires skill and knowledge. Migration to newer technologies may be painful and expensive.

These networks often have multiplexers, multi-drop lines, asynchronous components, terminals, data modems, Gandalf systems, Star master, and terminal servers. Computer components may include older IBM, Stratus, Tandem, or DEC minicomputers. These networks often support vital business functions and are difficult to support. These systems are found in warehouse environments, POS networks, telecommunications, electric utilities, and industrial controls.

We have years of experience solving these unique problems. We can help your organization migrate to newer technologies that can provide the same functionality.

We have designed and implemented LAN / WAN / MAN and special purpose networks. We can design, configure, and implement networks based on your business requirements. These include blending of technologies to meet cost savings goals, high availability, reliability, fault tolerance, and load balancing.

Telecommunications
We can work with telecommunications providers to design and implement the networks that meet our customers' business requirements. Whether it is a Local Area Network that distributes bandwidth to a desktop environment or a multi-state Wide Area Network that connects remote offices, we have the experience, knowledge, and expertise to create the network your organization needs.

High Availability and Load Balancing
We can design highly available networks. Working with service providers and hardware vendors, we build the reliability that your organization requires into a cost-effective network. This includes fail over, fault tolerance, backups, and load balancing.

Wide Area Networking
We design, configure and build Wide Area Networks. Whether it is a simple Point-to-Point T-1 network or a complex semi-mesh Frame Relay network, we have the knowledge and experience to successfully build and maintain your network.

Special Purpose Networks
We design specialized networks; these include:

• POS Networks - POS business networks are used for connecting stores to corporate data centers. These networks carry electronic sales for a company and must be reliable. These sales can include credit card, ATM and Debit card, and other electronic transactions. Fault Tolerance and redundancy are vital. Other data may include customer loyalty information, price change information, time and attendance, promotional information, and sales totals. Because of the sensitive nature of this data, these systems must be secure. We have the experience to build reliable and secure POS networks.
• Content Delivery Networks - These networks normally have large high-speed Internet connections used to deliver content to the Internet. Load Balancing, availability, and performance are key business requirements. Designing the right mixture of architecture, hardware, and operating systems to meet the demands in this environment is a challenge.
• Wireless Networking - Wireless networks have become a popular way of linking computers and peripherals. Done improperly, they can contain huge security holes, making systems and data vulnerable to security threats. We have the expertise to build secure networks.