Network Services

C3NS provides quality networking services and support to business large and small and to the government since 2002. We assess your company's specific networking needs and design an ideal solution for your business. We support a full line of Microsoft server products, a large selection of hardware, specialize in streamlining your operations and mobility solutions.

Businesses require IT consultants with extensive expertise in building cohesive technology solutions that increase their productivity. Our senior Microsoft and Cisco network engineeers have years of field experience and on-going training to assure success in design, deployment, and management of your network. Even the best hardware and software provide little value if over-built

If you want a competitive advantage, you have to choose a partner who can provide advanced equipment and high-quality services to the heart of your organization. With C3NS Network Life Cycle Services, you can select powerful end-to-end solutions—from network planning, design and implementation to on-going maintenance and network enhancement.

C3NS Network Life Cycle Services have comprehensive solutions that support every stage of your network’s life cycle: Plan, Deploy, Maintain and Enhance.

Plan

The C3NS team familiarizes themselves with your business and how it operates. When needed, we evaluate secondary systems that could be affected by the deployment. The team meets with stakeholders and high end users in the affected departments to gather the requirements for the system. This helps to ensure that the solution designed will meet the goals of not only the management but the users of the system. Without user buy-in, even the best solution will fail.

Design

Designing a network using many vendors’ equipment can be a complicated task, especially if the network design is multifaceted with multiple locations. We offer planning services that help you quickly design a network that meets your needs and prepares your for your growth.

Deploy

We have extensive experience providing complex multi-vendor deployments. C3NS will stand up your network according to plan. For network upgrades, we incorporate a rolling deployment, ensuring no data loss and only scheduled downtime.

Maintain

In seven years of meetings with potential clients, one common denominator has been the lack of consideration for the ability to support the solution. Often the most overlooked step in choosing a provider. Computer systems cannot be installed and just expected to function without support. C3NS employs a proactive strategy at a fraction of the cost compared to outages and loss of data. C3NS offers full time, part time, on-call, and remote service options. We have bundled support packages that will prevent or resolve issues and optional 24/7 support.

Enhance

Your business and operations are faced with ever changing challenges and requirements. When you require a new solution or just a new piece of technology, we offer expert migration solutions to ensure the latest technology is smoothly integrated into your network.

Sample set of our projects and past performance

Network and Exchange Server Upgrade with Cost Mitigation

Large dispersed commercial client in Texas, C3NS was tasked with upgrading their 11 site network and messaging system from NT to Windows 2003 Active Directory Environment and Exchange 2003, with a later upgrade to Exchange 2007. They had existing hardware at the site that they wanted to ensure could handle the new applications and load on the system.

C3NS brought one of the servers to our test environment that contained a snap shot of their primary systems and loaded Exchange. C3NS ran a series of load tests over a few days on the network including a Exchange Load Generator that simulated the volume and size of the message traffic we captured from the live environment.

The client planned on the addition of 100 users over the next year. C3NS expanded our testing to see if the increased the load on the system would allow the client to use its existing hardware. We found that the current server would not handle the addition of 100 users and saved our Client from the costly expense of an additional roll out within a year.

Domain and Client side upgrade

Commonwealth of Virginia, C3NS was tasked with upgrading a domain with 86 users from Windows NT with Windows 2000 clients to Windows 2003 and XP clients.

The environment was a data gathering lab for experiments. The client PC’s had at least 15 legacy applications that were used weekly to gather data from test subjects.

The environment had extra replacement Client PCs in storage that allowed us to bring them to our test environment. We stood up Windows NT domain similar to their operating environment and tested all the legacy applications on the client PC’s to ensure functionality.

The following upgrade tests were performed:

• Upgraded path of the Client PC’s from 2000 to XP
• Clean Load of Client PCs straight to XP with legacy applications loaded after words
• Migrated the domain from Windows NT to Windows 2003.

It was found that the upgraded Client PCs prevented most of the legacy apps from running while only 3 legacy apps on the clean load PCs would fail to run correctly. Load generators were run on the client PCs to ensure they would operate within the labs parameters.

The results were taken to stakeholders and 2 of the legacy applications were adjusted to allow them to run on the XP Client PC’s and one retired by a newer application.

With the use of the C3NS test environment, we prevented the lab from being down for over two months and were able to maintain the planned downtime estimate of 3 days during the upgrade.

Complete Networking Solutions

As a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, we are the trusted Microsoft go-to partner for all your networking needs: