Consulting Services

Overview

Network Automation

We're especially involved in the emerging field of network automation, which is focused on improving network reliability, maintainability, and cost effectiveness by automating the configuration and management of complex networks.

Over the last 15 years or so, much of the research in the system administration field has focused on automation. It's now well accepted that a well-run operation doesn't manage 10,000 servers individually, but rather uses tools like cfengine to create definitions of various server types and then manage instances of those server types as needed.

In today's networking world, most organizations are still manually configuring (and reconfiguring) every device, which is inefficient, error-prone, and difficult to scale. By developing and applying automation principles and tools similar to those that have been developed in the system administration field, savvy network operators can make their networks more efficient, easier to scale, more reliable, and easier to maintain. Great Circle can help you identify, design, develop, and deploy such network automation systems.

Great Circle's consultants have been actively involved with network automation for over 10 years, for clients ranging from startups to global enterprises to leading broadband carriers, as well as developers of network automation systems.

To support the growth and development of this important field, we host a Network Automation blog that we encourage you to visit.

Other Services

We provide expertise to help you design and implement the network that best fits your business needs, including technology evaluation, capacity planning, equipment and vendor selection, and carrier selection. We also help you develop effective strategies for issues such as automation, routing, redundancy, availability, supportability, and scalability.

Great Circle's consultants have broad experience in the key areas of network architecture, including network topology, routing, automation, performance analysis, naming and addressing issues, and basic network services (e-mail, the World Wide Web, file service, DNS, etc.), as well as a special expertise in DSL and network security.

Types of Clients

We work with many types of clients, including:

• Startups -- We can help you establish an IT infrastructure that is cost effective, scalable, reliable, and maintainable.
• Enterprises -- We can help you get the most out of today's networks, for your employees, remote offices, and your own customers.
• Service Providers and Carriers -- We can help you make your network more valuable to your customers, by helping you better understand how your customers want to use your network and what is important to those customers; we can also help you understand the impact that your customers' current and future activities will have on your network.
• Developers -- We can help you understand the impact that today's enterprise and broadband networks will have on your product or service, as well as the impact that your product or service may have on those networks.

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