Assessing the LAN's capabilities - One of the most critical and often overlooked areas in a network readiness assessment is the customer’s Local Area Network (LAN). Customers tend to focus on quality of service and bandwidth requirements in the Wide-Area-Network without confirming that the LAN infrastructure is also up to the challenge of segmenting and marking class of service (COS) in a converged environment.
Assessing time sensitivity - CRA provides a very accurate picture of those areas of your network that can handle time sensitive traffic, those that need some minor adjustments, and if necessary, those areas that must be upgraded to handle voice, video, or any other delay sensitive application. CRA assesses how time sensitive data such as video, SNA, enterprise resource planning (ERP or SAP) and Citrix traffic should be prioritized in your new converged network.
Expert review of the end-to-end solution - CRA focuses on key areas such as network design, manufacturer best practice recommendations, network links, WAN/LAN hardware and software readiness, network utilization/performance, and telephony component applications infrastructure.
