Local & Wide Area Networking (LAN / WAN)

Information can be utilized with effect, if it is available to the right persons at the right time. For this information has to reside on a network. Networking can increase productivity and save a substantial amount of your valuable time and money. It can make LAN/WAN technology work for you irrespective of whether your entire operation is housed at a single site or at various locations throughout the world.

Our team of Novell® and Microsoft® Engineers can design and implement both local and wide area networks and support all your requirements for servers, workstations, cabling systems, and communication devices.

Whether your business requires to be upgraded, integrated or newly designed, we at Brihzon Solutions can help you define your requirements, develop a sound technology strategy, assess the fit of new applications and their impact on your network, and determine which products and technologies meet your business objectives.

Since sharing resources and fluid communication are two important keys to a company's continued health, a Novell or Microsoft driven network can enhance the cohesiveness and efficiency of your company regardless of office locations. Previously postal mail was the fastest means to share information. E-mail has speeded up that process tremendously on a global scale, Even within your organization, a wide area networks (WANs), which connect, your entire company together is the fastest, most efficient and safest way to communicate. Brihzon Solutions helps you to use the power networks possess in virtually any business. We have been in this business for years and have kept ourselves at the forefront of a constantly evolving computer network technology by receiving and maintaining our Microsoft OEM Certification and Novell Network Certification.

In most cases, the different parts of a company work from the same data maintained at two different databases. This can prove problematic in more than one area, since the slightest difference between the two data sets can prove disastrous to any project. Here you also have the added cost of maintaining and backing up two sets of data in two different places. Computer networks (locally with local area networks and over distances with wide area networks) allow everyone in your office to work from the same data source. And whenever there are any changes made to the data, then the rest of the network will immediately have access to that updated data set, keeping the entire company on the same database. Having one Novell or Microsoft server maintained is better than maintaining several different servers. Since data is kept in one place, backups become much easier and are more likely to get done.

 

How LAN s and WAN s Improved Communication

Let us see how communication within your company can improve tremendously with the addition of a LAN or WAN computer network. Internet email is not necessary to keep everyone communicating within your company. Many companies don't want their employees to have Internet email since that could generate too many distractions. But the addition of a local area computer network could improve local email communication without the distraction of outside email.

After we help you install free open source software like Pegasus Mail over a Novell Network or proprietary software like Microsoft Outlook and Exchange Server over a Microsoft NT Network communications within your entire company can become a snap. Especially, with external clientele, E-mail can become an efficient communication device. . Communications may not necessarily be urgent but are always important. Email gives you the ability to easily save and store messages for any future reference. Many a time, you would have forgotten what a voicemail said but could not go back for any references later while; e-mail can be stored indefinitely and with little hassle. Archived email gives you a virtually permanent record of communications within the company and with clients. It can also save yourself from the hassle of voicemail and enhance your communications get accessed to company email.

 

How Computer Networks Secure Information Better

While computer networks can allow your users access to data, it can also control their access to sensitive or important data. Microsoft and Novell network software have built in security devices to channel the right information to the right employees. While sharing information can improve the use of important data, it can also put it in front of more eyes. With a network, software can provide discriminatory rights; e.g.; while some employees can be granted the ability to only view some data other employees can be granted the ability to modify it. This way you not only keep sensitive data in one place for better security, but you can put controls on who can get to it and what they can do with it.

Most importantly, networks give you the piece of mind to know that vital company data is secure and private.

Another part of the security which networking brings you, apart from the ability to store information in a central location, is that information is much easier to backup and backup often.

 

How you can stretch IT Budgets Further with Local Area Network

Networks can help you to stretch the already thin computer hardware, software IT budget even further. Instead of putting a mediocre printer at every workstation, you can now place a higher quality printer on the local area network and allow everyone on the LAN to use it. You can also cut down purchasing costs, maintenance costs and improve resource quality for everyone using the local area network by saving the duplication of effort.

Printers are not the only equipment that can be shared across your LAN. Backing up data can be troublesome if all your important data is spread across several machines. You can save time, money and potentially the life of your business by storing the most sensitive company data on your server. All your information is in one central place and easily backed up on a daily basis by using one tape backup system instead of several. Computer hardware is now assumed to be reliable. But equipment can sometimes fail. If you don't want to let hardware failure slow you down, you need to get multiple redundancy with multiple hard drives in your server. With mirrored server drives, a hard drive could completely die, but still the office would notice no slow down at all. Your company would never lose a step and at your next convenience, the faulty drive could be replaced.

Computer networks can take two forms: Local Area Networks (LAN's) and Wide Area Networks (WAN's). The only difference is the physical reach of the areas connected and the transmission mechanism that provides the connection between networked areas. Your network will take one of these shapes or a combination of the two types.

 

How will your LAN (Local Area Networks) Operate

In a Local Area Network a small physically local area is connected. LAN's connect workstations in one office, one building, or physically adjacent buildings with each other. The reach of these computer networks usually consists of networked workstations physically connected by cable to servers through network hubs using either Novell or Microsoft network software. The network hubs are in essence repeaters that take network messages and commands transmitted by one workstation or server and then repeats that information to every Windows workstation and Novell or Microsoft server on the network. The workstation or server that the information was intended then responds with the pertinent information. Pretty simple concept but the implementation sometimes is not so simple. Since you have to connect each workstation, server or printer by a physical cable to a network hub. Then make sure that all the computer network components on the local area network are speaking the same network protocols.

Local area networks while necessary, can prove just as difficult to manage as workstation hardware and software, hence many of our customers have handed over the function of running their LANs to us. With Brihzon Solutions years of experience in building and maintaining LANs, our clients feel confident in relying on us for doing this critical function.

 

How Can You Meet The Growing Network Demand

With the demand for computer networks growing every year, the demand for specialized services that design, install, maintain, expand and repair them also grows. Networks can be as simple as a cable between two computers or as complicated as multiple buildings with numerous workstations, each connected with several routers and hubs. No matter the hardware within the network there will always be a cable connecting everything together.

Network cable is the simplest device in a network but probably the most important. Without a good cable connection between devices all that expensive equipment is useless. While network cable may be the simplest part of a network there are necessary steps to take in its installation to make that vital link clear and trouble-free. We have the expertise to design, install, maintain and repair any network cabling assignment. We have installed and worked on networks that operate in schools and school systems, many law firms and several manufacturing plants. All of them provide clear, consistent and reliable communication in harsh environments as well as across long distances.

This is one solid reason why you can network with Brihzon Solutions for your networking needs!