Network Consulting and Assessment Services

Overview

Embark your network transformation journey

With the advent of next-generation network technologies and innovative business models, enterprises are constantly looking for ways to modernize and reimagine their networks. But keeping up with changing business requirements is no easy feat.

HCLTech Network Consulting Services helps Infrastructure and Operations leaders address the opportunities and challenges of their networks and edge by providing end-to-end services, from assessment, consulting and strategy to deployment. With a team of highly experienced network consultants, we help you design and build next-generation networks leveraging software-defined networks (SDN), SD-WAN, SASE, SD-LAN, private 5G, edge networking and intelligent network automation capabilities. Our relationship-beyond-contract approach allows customers to achieve faster decision-making, reduce time to market, optimize costs and increase business resilience.

HCLTech Network Consulting Framework

Our Framework

The proven PEAR (Prework, Explore, Analyze, Recommendation) framework addresses major challenges faced during your network transformation journey. Our team of network consultants, with relevant industry experience and vertical expertise, are ready to assist you on your journey to achieving your desired digital transformation goals aligned with your business requirements.

Phase 1

Prework

Stakeholder alignment and mapping
Workshop planning and agreements on deliverables
Scope identification
Risk identification

Phase 2

Explore

Network design
Network discovery and assessment evaluation with performance metrics
Identify key success metrics and criteria for benchmarking

Phase 3

Analyze

Network process, capacity, optimization analysis
Analysis of siloed processes and tools
Identify automation use cases for different application services

Phase 4

Recommendation

Discuss recommendations and roadmap with cost and risk analysis
Articulate a detailed execution plan with required efforts and timelines
Align subject matter experts and transition to desired end state

1 LAN

2 WAN

3 Data Center

4 Wireless

5 Load Balancer

6 Network Automation

7 Network Management

Services and Offerings

You Need the Right Strategy at the Right Time

Whether you’re rolling out a new network, adding new locations or downsizing, making the right decision is critical to your digital success. HCLTech Network Consulting and Assessment Services offers an array of services across a wide spectrum of network technologies, providing the right technical expertise, guidance and oversight you require to build your network to meet the demands of today and tomorrow.

Technology

Wide Area Network (WAN)
Campus Local Area Network (LAN)/Wireless
Network Automation
Information Technology (IT) -
Operational Technology (OT)
Data Center LAN
Cloud Networking

Network Consulting and Assessment Services

Gold
Audit (GA)

Network Operations Assessment (NOA)

Network Maturity Assessment

Assessment Services

Technology Adoption

Proof-of-Concept (PoC) Services

Network Planning and Design

Consulting Services

Gold Audit (GA)

Environment and inventory review
Benchmarking of network configuration against the best practices
Configuration compliance check
QOS consistency
Assessment of access control, syslog and other parameters
Deviation and exception notification
Inventory EOL/EOS analysis

Network Operations Assessment (NOA)

Conduct the gold audit
Technical operations assessment
- Network performance and assessment
- Monitoring and alerting parameters review
- Traffic and trend analysis
- Ticket analysis for top issues
- Evaluate technical skills and capabilities (environment-specific technologies)
Capacity analysis
- Network devices and bandwidth capacity assessment
- Wi-Fi design, guest access and capacity assessment
- Licensing and SLA/XLA analysis

Network Maturity Assessment

Design and technology
- Assess deployed infrastructure with business needs
- Examine multiple aspects of the network, including agility, availability, scalability, visibility, security and future-readiness
- Assess reference network architectures
- High availability, DC/DR review
- Analysis of technology against industry trends
Site persona
- Define/assess site categorization and objectives
- Identify categorization criteria
- Review existing site SLA, design and performance
Automation
- Examine existing automation capabilities
- Identify automation opportunities
- Define short-term and long-term use cases
ARB and CRD review
- Assess the architecture and change review board for their effective results

Technology Adoption

Identify business and technical requirements
Evaluate current network architecture
Evaluate different vendor solutions for identified requirements
Network pre-study to highlight environment dependencies, risk, impact, migration approach and adoption challenges
Develop and recommend adoption journey

Proof-of-Concept (PoC) Services

Identify POC scope
Define POC objectives and success criteria
Evaluate POC mythology
Plan and arrange the POC, equipment and stakeholders
Perform POC and record observations
Analyze the results and identify improvement areas

Network Planning and Design

Gather and analyze requirements for designing the solution
Perform POC or review the report (if already done)
Validate bill of material and licensing
Analysis of current and future architectures
Analysis of migration approach
Workshop with customers’ SMEs

Focus Areas

Focus Area and In-scope Tracks

WAN

Upgrade your legacy network infrastructure to improve WAN utilization, reduce costs and enhance business agility. Network Consulting & Assessment Services helps you take control of your WAN investments and traverse traffic to the cloud seamlessly.

LAN/Wireless

Modernize your campus networks using tailored roadmaps that help you reduce LAN/WLAN sprawl, get full LAN visibility, and achieve enterprise-grade connectivity to offer a sticky user experience.

Multicloud Networking

Simplify network and application connectivity, achieve compliance and get valuable insights across cloud environments in a cost-efficient and secure manner.

IT-OT

Simplified, seamless, and scalable integration of IT and OT assets helps businesses remove inefficiencies. Let’s accelerate collaboration and innovation.

Data Center

Meet the prerequisites of innovation via world-class data center consulting services, helping enterprises to reduce costs, enhance security, and improve overall efficiency.

Network Automation

Reduce MTTR and increase business uptime while automating your entire network lifecycle using our intelligent automation services.

Benefits

Accelerate your network transformation through consulting and assessment services

Delivering agility and innovation

Build a pre-validated data center platform on Cisco and NetApp technologies with our utility-based on-premises IT Infrastructure model that is supported by high-performance NetApp AFF and FAS storage solutions and FlexPod.

Gain continuous improvement

Get critical insight into your network infrastructure, identifying operational gaps and service improvement areas, while delivering agility and improving risk.

Reduce costs and achieve efficiencies

Enable your DevOps environment to leverage the full potential of automation, increasing operational agility and lowering operational costs.

Accelerating outcomes

We solve network complexities through focused technology expertise around the globe, drawing on three decades of experience.

Digital readiness

Define and develop your network strategy to identify whether your organization can harness the power of the next-generation network technologies with confidence.