24 | 09 | 2019

What do you need to know about network environments?

Uncover the Secrets of Data Network Environments: Essential Information You Need to Know Now!

Introduction

A data network is a system of connected devices that allow for the transfer and sharing of information. It is the backbone of modern communication and essential for many aspects of our daily lives, from staying connected with friends and family to conducting business and managing finances.

Think of a data network as a highway for information. Just as a highway connects cities and towns, a data network connects computers, smartphones, and other devices to communicate and exchange information. This information can be anything from text messages and emails to photos and videos and even important financial transactions.

It is important to note that data networks are not limited to a single device or location. They can range from small local networks within a single building to large, global networks that span the entire world. Regardless of their size, data networks play a critical role in our lives and the functioning of modern society.

The Core – Data Networks

Data networks have a profound impact on organizations and individuals who use applications. They enable organizations to streamline their operations, improve communication and collaboration, and access a wealth of real-time information. For example, businesses can use data networks to manage their finances, customer relationships, and supply chains, making them more efficient and competitive in the marketplace.

For individuals, data networks provide instant access to information, entertainment, and communication. People can use applications to access the latest news, connect with friends and family, and even shop and manage their finances online. With the growing number of connected devices, data networks have made it possible for people to stay connected and productive, no matter where they are.

Moreover, data networks also impact the security and privacy of organizations and individuals. As more sensitive information is transmitted over networks, it is important to ensure that this information is protected from unauthorized access and cyber-attacks. Organizations must take steps to secure their networks and protect their customer’s information, while individuals must be mindful of the information they share online and the security of their devices.

In conclusion, data networks have revolutionized how organizations and individuals communicate, access information, and conduct business. They have enabled organizations to be more productive and competitive while providing individuals instant access to a world of information and entertainment. However, with the benefits of data networks also come security and privacy concerns that must be addressed to ensure the continued safe and secure use of these networks.

Here are a few interesting facts, statistics and best practices on how to achieve a Secure Infrastructure in the Data Center:

  • There are over 4.8 billion internet users worldwide, with approximately 50% of the global population having internet access.
  • In 2020, the average person spent 6 hours and 43 minutes per day online.
  • The number of connected devices is projected to exceed 75 billion by 2025.
  • The average internet speed worldwide is approximately 11.03 Mbps.
  • In 2019, global internet traffic reached 1.92 zettabytes, projected to grow to 4.88 zettabytes by 2024.
  • Cybersecurity is a growing concern, with over 4,000 cyber attacks happening daily.
  • By 2025, the global market for IoT (Internet of Things) is expected to reach $1.6 trillion.
  • Video streaming accounts for over 70% of internet traffic.
  • In 2020, over 5.11 billion people worldwide owned a smartphone, which is expected to grow to 5.74 billion by 2023.
  • The fastest internet speed ever recorded was 44.2 Tbps in 2019 in the United States.
  • Remote work has become increasingly popular due to the COVID-19 pandemic, with remote work rates increasing by 140% since 2005.

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Each section below describes the Features and Benefits to help you choose the best-optimised solution for your infrastructure.

Challenges and Opportunities

Any Medium/Enterprise Business, University, or Healthcare Clinic/Hospital face enormous challenges in developing and maintaining infrastructures that keep pace with high technical demands. Technology must support and enhance research efforts, offering new methods to increase productivity and efficiency.
Combined advances in switching technology and WLANs help financially constrained businesses achieve more value and functionality within their existing budgets. For a very reasonable cost, universities, companies and hospitals can implement an infrastructure supporting a wide range of leading applications. These technologies enhance how information is communicated and accessed, providing a more optimal infrastructure that delivers efficient tools and resources.
Professionals at v500 Systems have delivered several projects addressing the challenges mentioned above.

Local Area Network (LAN) and Wide Area Network (WAN) – Wired Technologies

High-speed LAN technologies using Copper or Fiber connections at 1/10Gb speed can significantly enhance the overall network environment. At the WAN layer, cost-effective broadband capabilities will provide much-needed bandwidth to the Internet.

Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) – Wireless Technologies

WLAN technology affordably extends your network’s flexibility when it is not practical to install cable or when flexible, mobile access solutions are required. Wired and wireless technologies each have a place in the campus LAN and collectively deliver LAN-to-LAN capabilities.
Users tend to use “Bring Your Own Devices” (BYOD) to work more often. Mobile phones and tablets are used very frequently in any business environment. Wireless speeds match those at the wired network, and there is considerable cost saving on cabling infrastructure. We think that Businesses should take advantage of those benefits.

Deploying Branch and Campus LAN

Network infrastructure is optimised with a configuration that delivers sufficient bandwidth and intelligence to meet increasing traffic demands, with additions of robust; Quality of Service (QoS), High Availability. Ease of Management and Strict Security with Access Authentication Capabilities.
The above features allow the Network Infrastructure to support a broad spectrum of services, and importantly it is scalable so it will grow with the Business.
v500 Systems have deployed many network environments; please see our Case Studies
With technology development, there is a more cost-effective way of deploying very scalable and secure SD-WAN solutions.

Process of building Network Infrastructure

Next-Generation application demand support in colleges, universities, clinics, and businesses and fully take advantage they will need to upgrade their LANs. At the most basic level, they will need to migrate from shared hub technology to a switched infrastructure. Many campuses also will want to use faster, more intelligent technologies, such as Gigabit or 10 Gigabit Ethernet. Besides, businesses may wish to integrate wireless technology into their environments for greater user mobility and LAN accessibility.
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Migrating from Hubs to Switches

The only environment you can get away with hubs is a small home setup. In the current day and age, at least 10/100/1000 Mbps switches are required. Switching is much more intelligent as it forwards traffic only to desired ports instead of flooding traffic out of all of the ports. Better still, a multilayer switch is a better option if you require routing in the future. Professionals at v500 Systems can advise you on what is best suited for your environment.

Migrating to Multilayer Advanced Switches

Every company needs to be on advanced multilayer switches for the simple reason that applications and users are very demanding, and this is a benchmark of successful networking. We at v500 Systems can help you to achieve this level if you are not already there.
Brief Summary: For many campus environments with hubs or Ethernet/Fast Ethernet switches, a migration to advanced, higher-performance, multilayer switches will also be necessary. The reason is simple, with the growth of multi-point traffic and the introduction of demanding, bandwidth-hungry applications, the network comes under more and more stress. Inevitably we need to increase bandwidth at the backbone of the system or the top of the stack.

Wired and Wireless together at last

For many campus environments, wireless technology is an essential addition to the network. In a high-performance switching context, wireless technology can deliver Ethernet-level speeds reaching 11 Mbps or higher to open areas. Wireless can dramatically improve the usability and scalability of the existing network. Many successful campus implementations have shown that wireless technology delivers substantial administrative, learning, and cost-savings benefits.
Our Network Engineers at v500 Systems can assist your Business in configuring agile Wireless Infrastructure.

Combined Wired and Wireless, End-to-End LAN Solution

The culture and lifestyle are changing in offices/businesses. Users tend to have meetings in common areas, cafes. Also, in warehouses, wireless networking dominates this field as it makes communication much more manageable. However, for wireless networking, a fibre backbone is the key for high-speed networks and resiliency of access points. It is integrating key network management to simplify operations and administration and security features that protect data and user privacy.

Network Switch Solutions, End-to-End

v500 Systems makes it easy. We offer end-to-end solutions for every point on the network: from Access Layer, through Distribution Layer to the backbone to the Network Core. We extend the system and accessibility using Wi-Fi. Everything that a medium/large business needs to deliver network infrastructure affordably and securely.

Enterprise Infrastructure – Professional Solution for Campus, Branch and Data Center Network Infrastructure

At this level of networking, we heavily rely on Cisco Nexus devices. The reason behind it is quite simple, modern Data Center’s workload must excel in server-to-server traffic with intensive communication across thousands of servers. Therefore, your Business needs automation across the entire Data Center platform, operations and business processes to enable users, companies and partners to respond faster to the application changes required in real-time.
By automating the network from Edge to Core, enterprise to Data Center, and embedding infrastructure learning, analytics, and assurance at the foundation level. You can focus on running your Business, not on running your network.

Data Center Networks consist of 5 Tier Layer.

  • Network Exchange Layer – this is where other Data Center, Major remote Branches, or 3rd Party Clients connect.
  • Core Layer – highly resilient connectivity within Data Center, Uplinks to Network Exchange and connectivity to other Data Centers within the same country
  • Distribution Layer – at this layered network is segregated into Blocks, VRFs, and Firewalls that provide traffic filtering and Load-Balancers, further resiliency for the applications.
  • Spine Layer – Backbone for the FabricPath and Leaf environment
  • Leaf Layer with Fabric Extenders (FEXs) – VMWare Chassis usually connects to the Leaf Switches and other Servers to the FEXs (Top of the Rack switches)

Next-Generation Data Centers

Core needs to drive data Centers:

  • Need for a higher level of reliability, with minimised downtime for updates and configuration changes
  • Need to optimise the use of the data centre network infrastructure by moving towards a topology where no link is kept idle
  • Need to maximise computing resources by reducing the growth rate of physical computing nodes. This need is addressed by server virtualisation.
  • Need to reduce the time that it takes to provision new servers
  • Need to reduce overall power consumption in the Data Center
  • Need to increase computing power at a lower cost

The above “wish list” can satisfy the following Features and Benefits.

  • Architectures can support a SAN and a LAN on the same Network Infrastructure.
  • Architectures that provide intrinsically lower latency than traditional LAN networks.
  • Architectures that provide the ability to distribute Layer 2 traffic on all available links.
  • Simplified cabling: For a more efficient airflow, lower power consumption, and lower cost of deployment of high-bandwidth networks.
  • Reduction of management points.

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Each section below describes the Features and benefits v500 Systems can provide as a Network Solution to your Business Environment.

Vital elements in Next-Generation Data Centers

Data Center Pods

Each access layer in the data centre is “divided” in pods (building blocks), where servers in each pod share similar characteristics, whether these characteristics are identical hardware, related SLAs provided to the customer (internal or external), and so on. This scenario is different from building separate silos for each business unit. In a pod design, multiple business units may share the same pod, and run on similar server platforms because of the similar level of service required.

All Links Forwarding

The next-generation data centre provides the ability to use all links in the LAN topology by taking advantage of technologies such as virtual PortChannels (vPCs). vPCs enable full, cross-sectional bandwidth utilisation among LAN switches.

10 Gigabit Ethernet to the Server

Servers connected at 10 Gigabit Ethernet benefit from a reduction in the number of Gigabit Ethernet adapters needed. They also increase network bandwidth and the possibility of consolidating storage traffic with LAN traffic.

FabricPath on Nexus – a flexible solution

The most significant advantage of FabricPath is that it gives us flexibility along with loop-free connectivity that STP couldn’t do and is, therefore, run in Data Centers as a replacement of Spanning Tree Protocol. Cisco FabricPath: Cisco FabricPath is about routing your data centre traffic and helps to do load-sharing

Fabric Extender

Fabric extender technology simplifies the management of the many LAN switches in the data centre by aggregating them in groups of 10 to 12 under the same management entity. In its current implementation, Cisco Nexus 2000 Series Fabric Extenders can be used to provide connectivity across 10 to 12 racks that are all managed from a single switching configuration point, thus bringing together the benefits of top-of-the-rack and end-of-the-row topologies.

Using Cisco Nexus Switches and vPC to Design Data Centers

Virtual PortChannel (vPC) allows links that are physically connected to two different Cisco switches to appear to a third downstream device as coming from a single device and as part of a single port channel. The main benefit of running vPC on the data centre is that the traffic between client and servers or from server to a server can use all the available links and is loop-free.
In a vPC topology, all links between the aggregation and the access layer would be forwarding and part of a virtual PortChannel.

We are Experts in delivering End-to-End Network and Cyber-Security Solutions. Below is a list of some of the areas and devices that we have implemented in previous projects. All Features were Beneficial to our Clients:

  • Analyse, Design, Deploy and Support LAN, WAN, and Wireless Network Infrastructure for Medium / Enterprise Businesses as well as Mega Data Centers
  • Cyber-Security
  • Cisco Routers (up to the latest IOS)
  • Cisco Catalyst Switches
  • Cisco Nexus (N7K, N5K, N2K)
  • Nexus VPC and VDC
  • Ethernet, FabricPath
  • Dynamic Routing Protocols
  • BIG-IP F5’s, LTM, ASM, APM, GTM
  • Migration from Cisco CSM to F5
  • Network Infrastructure in Data Center and Hybrid Data Center
  • Next-Generation Wi-Fi
  • Network Monitoring Systems
  • All flavours of VPN Solutions
  • Connectivity to 3rd Party Vendors
  • SD-WAN
Please note a small disclaimer!

We want to apologise to any non-technical person. Context below, at first glance, may appear as dull as reading a fridge manual, not that we have anything against fridges. However, this is very important; this is what makes your network stable, performing to the maximum with minimal input – works!!! We love what we do, and at heart, all of us are network engineers at our fingertips. We have to mention below core information as it is the foundation of any resilient, scalable and secure network. We can add more items, but in a nutshell, you will forget that you have an Operation that you need to manage and spend time and resources.
We ask for a little trust in v500 Systems to resolve all your network environment problems.

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Please take a look at our Case Studies and other Posts to find out more:

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