A Managed Lan Services provider offers complete LAN infrastructure management for small businesses, large campuses, and data centers.
In the past, companies operated their own LANs and even recovered quickly from a disaster. But today, as networks continue to become more complex and technically complex, companies need outside help to take care of their local network.
Internal communication is critical to your business, and choosing a managed LAN provider is key to ensuring a seamless, uninterrupted service. Before choosing a supplier, the following factors should be considered:
1. QoS and security
As demand for bandwidth and data rates continues to grow, a provider must be able to offer quality of service (QoS) to prioritize some applications over others. You should also pay attention to the security features included in the service. For example, some vendors offer network mapping and auditing, IP security encryption, and user-based authentication.
2. Coating
The ideal ISP should have a large number of LAN ports for their existing customers and manage corporate LANs from their own datacenters over secure connections. It is also helpful to ensure that they provide managed LAN services in accordance with the Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL).
3. Flexibility
The provider should customize their services to suit your business needs. Also make sure the provider offers their own hardware. This will eliminate the need to invest in internal IT infrastructure and relieve the IT team from the responsibility of managing the corporate network. However, the provider must allow you to use your own hardware if you want to.
4. Configuration and service
The vendor must provide initial LAN port configuration, related hardware and software management, and hardware maintenance and implementation. You must monitor and report SLA compliance, technical metrics and updates in advance.
5. Support
With ever more diverse business structures, cloud computing, and big data, LANs are more complex than ever. As a company with a lot of LAN ports, it can be extremely difficult for you to effectively manage your network and eliminate any unplanned outages. This is why it is so important that a team of experienced experts is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
