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©2015 EarthLink. All rights reserved.

Network DiagnosticsProfessional Services

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Your Business Challenges

Based on what we learned at our last meeting:•Will network design meet current and future needs•How to ensure application performance across network•Need to right size network to optimize investment

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How Much Bandwidth is Right for Your WAN?

• Need for bandwidth is increasing faster than most businesses can keep up with.

• Through 2018 enterprise bandwidth need will increase by 20-50% per year.

• Don’t spend more or less than you should.

62%

51%

of retailers emphasize increased bandwidth for business applications

of retailers need increased bandwidth for customer facing applications1

1Aberdeen Group 2013

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Network Diagnostics Service Description

Network Diagnostic is an EarthLink engineering led engagement that provides network recommendations on WAN architecture and bandwidth sizing for application performance.

Network Diagnostics Delivers

Performance and Cost Optimization

•You get a right sized network design to ensure optimized performance and cost.

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• Complete WAN Analysis Based on Current Environment– WAN – per site bandwidth utilization and architecture versus business requirements

• Recommendations Based on Simulation of Future WAN Needs – WAN – overall design - connectivity types, bandwidth, monitoring and management

• Optional Analysis and Recommendations– LAN – per site assessment of hardware, use of IP, security gaps, and utilization – Telephony - per site assessment of hardware, soft switch, QoS performance– Applications – performance on a per application basis, and its impacts on LAN/WAN

Key Features – Network Diagnostics

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Case Study:A manufacturing company was seriously impacted by variable outages with their existing cable network provider. They also had key high availability network equipment that was being unused, due to a lack of IT staff for design and configuration.

The customer engaged EarthLink to help with network design, mapping out a vital secondary connectivity plan, as well as configuration of their unused equipment.

The result was redundant, high availability connectivity to ensure a stable network environment.

How can Network Diagnostics help me?

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