Downtime can be costly for any business and, in today’s world, it is measured in seconds.

Any type of downtime can cause the business to lose confidence in the IT department, which in turn affects its ability to support the business.

• Does your business rely on network availability?
• Do outages put you at risk for penalties or damage to relationships?
• Have you established redundant network capabilities to ensure failover in the event that your primary network or systems incur outages?
• Do you know where your network service providers have overlapping paths and peering, allowing a single failure to take out your redundant connectivity? 
• Have you identified your network’s most likely points of failure?
• Has your network been tuned to prioritize your key business applications over non-business related traffic?
• Do you know where to locate your data centers to optimize performance and high availability?

West Monroe Partners can analyze and improve the reliability of your voice, video, and data networks to avoid downtime.

Applying best practices and proven approaches, we assess network infrastructure and assess, design, and implement recommendations—based on experience and best practices—that:

• Remove single points of failure.
• Add network redundancy with quick failover in case of hardware downtime.
• Incorporate the solution into any disaster recovery plan.
• Optimize network design to support critical applications better.

We have experience with leading network technologies, including:

• Cisco switching and routing
• Cisco security products including firewalls, intrusion prevention, and virtual private networking (VPN)
• Cisco Application Networking Services
• F5 BIG-IP

 We have worked with all of the leading connectivity vendors, including: