Engage impact42 as your professional telengineering partner and begin to enjoy how managed tele-engineering services can improve your business.
Business objectives, finances and strategies as well as the technical environment are constantly changing. All networks go through a recurring natural evolutionary cycle of Assessment/ Planning, Design, Implementation, Operations and reassessment. Although networks are critical tools for the success of a business, planning and building them rarely is a core competency. As a result many companies havebuilt either too large or too small a network, pay more for services than they should, have a design or technology unsuited to their business needs or suffer excessive operations costs in managing their technical systems. Few companies can keep up; you may not even know what you are missing.
The impact42 NetCycleSM Managed Telengineering Product Suite provides you with all the resources you need to build and maintain an optimized network that meets your specific networking objectives at the most efficient level and at the lowest cost.
Project Experience
The members of the Impact42 telecommunications management and engineering design-build team have lengthy resumes demonstrating success in designing, building and maintaining similar projects. FutureWorks management and staff are seasoned network design, deployment and operations profes- sionals. Impact42 personnel have come from medium to large sized telecommunications based co m- panies where they were responsible for the fiber network design and built operations of those comp a- nies. Impact42 personnel also have significant experience in maintaining and managing high-speed data networks, negotiating Internet peering agreements and providing Internet services.
Major projects managed by Impact42 and it principals include:
- First Bank U.S. Nationwide Voice & Data Network Optimization Plan
- Savvis Year 2000 POP Deployment
- Savvis Metro Fiber Ring Deploym ent
- CoreExpress Nationwide Optical Backbone Deployment
- St. Louis Sprint PCS Wireless Build-out.Qualifications
Impact42 has a team of experienced telecommunications management and engineering professionals who specialize in the planning, design and deployment and maintenance of international telecommuni- cations infrastructure. We provide a suite of services to help managers optimize the use of telecommuni- cations technology to support their organizations’ business plan through carrier-based network cost management and productivity gains.Although we all know the importance of staying on top of the trends in telecommunications, controlling costs is critical to success. The Impact42 team has been there. We have evaluated, designed and built worldwide fiber optic networks as well as metro and leased networks, purchased and installed switches and routers for all sized installations, built data centers, negotiated telecommunications agreements with all major carriers, dismantled networks and provisioned circuits. We have extensive design and build experience. We provide an entire comprehensive network design, implementation and training package. The FutureWorks facilities deployment team is highly experienced and ready to roll. Impact42 will make telecommunications technology work for you.
Impact42 Principal’s clients include:
Charter Communications, a major U.S. cable and data service provider; First Bank, a nationwide U.S. bank with over 200 branch locations; Telefonica, a major interna- tional carrier and BTI Photonics, an optical network systems manufacturer. More than our hands-on service, more than our extensive resources, more than our combined years of experience –FutureWorks transfers knowledge and the ability to refresh it, expand it, deepen it, twist it, shape it and transfer it in perpetually new ways to meet our clients’ needs today and in the ever changing future.
Network Product and Service Suite
Our NETWORK SYSTEMS PRODUCT AND SERVICES SUITE offers all the resources you need to plan, build and support an optimized network and business system to meet your specific objectives at the most effi- cient level. All networks and their associated systems go through a recurring natural evolutionary cycle of non-recurring, complex events requiring specialized skills and personnel to manage. You may be able to achieve substantial cost savings through efficient systems integration, network design and business process management. We specialize in working at the intersection of your technical and business systems. As skilled network engineers, business professionals and software developers, our network systems specialists can resolve complex issues for you and save you money.We offer products and services in 3 related areas.
NETCYCLESM MANAGED TELECOMMUNICATIONS SERVICE provides you with all the engineering resources you need to plan and build an optimized voice or data network.
BUSINESSTECHSM SERVICE provides system integration and process development services assuring efficient integration of your technical systems with your business processes.
Finally our NET-TOOLSSM SOFTWARE offers packaged, individually developed and managed open-source installations of software, designed to improve your business and network operations and efficiency.
Network Product and Service Suite
NETCYCLESM MANAGED TELECOMMUNICATIONS SERVICE SET
NETASSESSSM delivers a comprehensive assessment and evaluation of your existing network including equipment and circuit inventories.
NETDESIGNSM provides an optimized network solution based on your unique business objectives including topology layout, equipment specifications and cost.
POPDEPLOYSM is a network deployment service providing site location and evaluation, carrier assessment, equipment staging, infrastruc- ture installation and testing.
NETACESM provides a high-level, last resort network troubleshooting service designed to complement and supplement your own technical support personnel.
BUSINESSTECHSM SERVICE SET
TELETAMERSM couples a complete financial analysis of your telecommunications expenses with a comprehensive engineering review of your communications infrastructure. Once recommendations have been made and approved, specific cost reduction initiatives are then implemented.
PROCESSPROSM determines, documents and implements systematic Methods of Procedure for managing and integrating all of your techni- cal support processes. This service is excellent for defining Network Service Center policies and procedures, telecommunications circuit and asset management procedures, network security procedures and other department policies and procedures.
NETTUTORSM offers customized technical and process training to educate your staff in operating your network and following your Policies and Procedures. Training is specific to your business needs and to the capabilities of your technical support team.
TELAGREESM offers full contract negotiation or renegotiation services with telecommunications carriers, hardware equipment suppliers, or real estate providers.
PROVISIONPROSM is a comprehensive circuit provisioning service including cross connects & extensions.
NETTOOLSSM SOFTWARE SET
Our specialists provide software toolsets that perform a variety of functions enhancing your ability to manage technical systems. We provide in-house developed packaged software products, value priced managed installations of open-source software, and custom developed inte- gration utilities and software sets all of which complement our service product sets.
Packaged Software Products
TELEWORKSTM NETWORK SUPPORT SUITE is a web-based software applications suite that allows you to manage your geographically distrib- uted voice, data and cellular network and services from one central location. A centralized telecommunications service and circuit in- ventory database stores circuit and cost information providing easy billing and contract reconciliation. Workflow management tools allow you to order, approve and implement telecom services per your specific business processes. You will have all the reporting tools required for keeping fully apprised of all network expenses and activity.
TELEGRAPHTM NETWORK UTILIZATION AND REPORTING SYSTEM provides comprehensive network utilization information through easily readable and configurable graphs and reports.
IPTRACK TM IP ADDRESS MANAGEMENT SYSTEM is a secure, scalable, web-based tool providing IP netblock inventory, tracking and manage- ment features.
CHANGETRACKTM CHANGE CONTROL SYSTEM manages, schedules and documents system maintenance and changes providing an audit trail useful for managing department and vendor accountability.
RISERTRACKTM tracks circuits, risers, conduits and capacity with associated demarcation points within a facility, building, or campus.
Managed Open -Source Installations
MAILMINDERTM ABUSE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM is a managed deployment of MailScanner which works with SpamAssassin and virus scanning soft- ware to protect email against viruses and spam.
OUR SYSTEMS DESIGN AND INTEGRATION TEAM has modified the freely available code to achieve dramatic performance improvements over an out-of-the-box deployment. This solution also boasts superior performance over commercially licensed software solutions at just a fraction of the cost. It is particularly suited for large email installations. MAILMINDERTM is currently at work filtering over 20,000,000 spam messages every day.
Other Managed Open-Source Installations Providing High Value Include:
CACTI network utilization for small installations CRICKET network utilization for large installations NAGIOS network host and service monitoring IPTABLES linux stateful firewall
SENDMAIL Mail Transfer Agent
BIND DNS Server Software
SAMBA Network file server and print server
Custom Developed Network and System Integration Utilities
Our specialists provide custom developed utilities that can greatly enhance functionality and integration of your existing systems. We can also develop or adapt software to facilitate most network and system operations. Ask about what we have done and can do for you.
NETWORK SYSTEMS PRODUCTS can be purchased individually, in combination with others, or as a total suite depending on your own specific needs. Our approach is customized for each organization, but our strategies are designed to save you money.
We guarantee that we will reduce your network expenses by more than the cost of our services. Let us show you how.