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The MindLinX Infrastructure team is fully prepared to offer solutions
supported by a variety of technologies. The lists
below includes but is not limited to the following:
Technologies
- MPLS (Tag Switching)
- ATM
- IS-IS
- Frame Relay
- BGP
- IP Multicast
- OSPF
- SONET
- IGRP
- DWDM
- Voice over IP
- Voice over ATM
- Voice over Frame Relay
- Voice over DSL
Platforms
- Softswitches
- DSLAM/DSL modem
- Gateways
- Routers
- Switches (Traditional TDM and WAN)
- IAD (Integrated Access Devices – Customer Premise Equipment)
Management and Measurement Technologies
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Service Creation
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Traffic Profiling
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Intrusion Detection
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Firewalls
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Performance Tuning
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Change Control
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Impact Analysis
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Fault Isolation
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Baselining
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Traffic Engineering
- Modeling and Simulation
- SLA Management
- Risk Assessment
- Public Key
Infrastructure
- FCAPS
Service Approach
A customizable client
engagement process, delivers a full range of assessment
services. This process includes:
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Network Discovery
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Security Analysis
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Traffic Studies / Profiles
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Full Network Modeling
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Web based project management
Services
MindLinX’s communications infrastructure solutions
support a variety of platforms, including Softswitches,
DSLAM/DSL modem, Gateways, Routers, Switches
(Traditional TDM and WAN), IAD (Integrated Access
Devices – Customer Premise Equipment).
With expertise in contemporary virtual switched
networking, including signaling, service switching
point, call control, media gateways and transport, the MindLinX Infrastructure team offers the following
solutions:
Internetworking Services
Auditing and Assessment
- Determine the network, systems and application requirements
- Evaluate existing design and operation
- Determine legacy migration capabilities
- Appraise current capabilities and service levels of network provider
- Ascertain network cost of operations
Application and Services Impact
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Assess application and service deployment on the
infrastructure
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Determine support for voice and video
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Implement application prioritization on the network
with service classification
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Protect mission-critical applications using
techniques such as Quality of Service (QoS) and
differentiated services
Architecture, Design and Implementation
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Design networks including cable plants, equipment
and routing hierarchy
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Provide WAN, LAN and MAN solutions using
contemporary network architectures such as Ethernet,
Frame Relay, ATM, Packet-over-SONET and WDM
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Enable a complete multicast infrastructure with IGMP,
CGMP, PIM-SM/DM
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Provide off-premises interoperability,
proof-of-concept and testing
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Design and implement network operations centers
Network Availability
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Evaluate current network availability plan.
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Provide risk analysis and design a comprehensive
disaster recovery plan
Modeling and Simulation
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Demonstrate impact of new design changes in both
controlled and simulated environments
Telecommunications
Services
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Assess the operation, performance and configuration
of the switching systems, voice mail and
transmission systems
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Determine trunk capacity to provide a “grade of
service” or “blocking probability percentage”
consistent with the carrier or enterprise operating
requirements
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Calculate the trunks needed to handle the client’s
peak traffic
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Quantify peak traffic and baseline traffic
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Lay out routing schemes for trunk groups
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Determine H.323 versus SIP requirements
Numbering Plan
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Configure and verify current dial plan to show
restricted and unrestricted dial numbers, such as
area codes, 800 numbers, PIC codes and international
calling on a switch level
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Verify current dial plans by extension numbers
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Provide dial configurations for CLECs, including
local number
Voice Over IP/ATM/xDSL/Frame Relay
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Provide a cost evaluation of new service in
comparison to the current networks
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Perform cost analysis of equipment and ROI
calculation
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Design migration plan from existing network to
integrated voice/data network
CLEC Services
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Verify PIC pricing and routing schemes
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Perform traffic analysis
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Determine viable architectures, including access,
signaling, and switching
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Develop access strategies, including HFCA, xDSL and
MMDS
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Establish interconnection strategy, including
collocation and mid-span meets
Contemporary Tandem Switch Deployment and Engineering
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Design and implement contemporary tandem equipment,
such as open-architecture soft switches, into CLEC
and enterprise networks
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Architect network to address separation of call
control and bearer control
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Configure and integrate signaling systems, such as
Signaling System 7 (SS7)
Management and Measurement Services
Assessment and Design
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Design network and systems management requirements
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Evaluate existing capabilities by interviewing
personnel and performing site surveys
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Review existing network and systems management
policies, procedures and documentation
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Recommend the network system, platform and software
necessary to meet current and future requirements
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Architect back office and operations support systems (OSS)
Installation
- Install comprehensive network and systems management platforms and requisite components
- Test the operating system and platform software within MindLinX Network Center or in the client's environment
Capacity Planning
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Implement network and systems management probes and
data collection devices
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Analyze inbound/outbound applications and management
traffic to determine utilization and communications
flow
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Model, stimulate and test impact of new capabilities
on the infrastructure
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Monitor Service Level Agreements (SLA's) from
providers for compliance
Asset and Configuration Management
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Provide an assessment and inventory of infrastructure
assets
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Identify and correlate current applications and
information flow
Modeling and Simulation
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Identify integral components that impact performance
and service level
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Determine the relationship among system entities to
assess bandwidth, latency, and utilization
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Correlate events between the application and the
infrastructure for enhanced capacity planning and
deterministic SLAs
Security Assessment
Our Management and Measurement security experts conduct a
variety of network security assessments to determine network
risk factors, including external and internal threats such
as unauthorized access and disclosure, compromise of data
integrity and denial of service. MindLinX
helps its
clients align their enterprise security strategy with
business needs and objectives. Additionally, it
prepares them to adapt to the dynamic technologies available
and proposed, and brings assurance and efficient management
to their overall management structure. MindLinX
evaluates
your current security controls, identify potential threats,
and helps clients better understand their security risks,
develop a vision for how security architecture affects the
business, and establish sound security principles and
standards to correct vulnerabilities.
Information Network Security Assessment (INSA)
INSA Methodology
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Discovery
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Evaluation
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Vulnerability Check
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Policy Review
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Design
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Presentation
Customized Information Security Services (CISS)
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Architecture and design – A collaborative process of
discovery and development that produces a
client-specific security architecture.
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Policy and process – Development of an effective, implemental
information security policy that
establishes standards and principles to guide activities
within the network environment.
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Security project management
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Vendor product support
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Implementation of individual INSA modules
Total Network Security Assessment
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Internal Technical Security Assessment – examines the
technical configuration, placement, controls and
security management of the internal network architecture
and infrastructure.
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Perimeter Security Assessment – uses the MindLinX
Security “AIM” Model (Assess, Identify, Mitigate) to
identify bona fide, credible vulnerabilities in
comprehensive examination that identifies and ranks by
severity vulnerabilities to the network infrastructure.
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Physical Security Assessment – looks at access
controls to sensitive areas, data classification and
handling, fire suppression and electrical power.
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