Modern Digital Enterprises rely upon a robust network foundation, carrying the traffic that enable business with their Client’s and supply chains.
Typically, a Digital Enterprise will operate and maintain Agile methodologies and operate QA, Dev/Test and Pre-production environments supporting continuous delivery of Production Systems to assure new software releases and features, however, in many cases do not have the luxury of a pre-production network infrastructure to validate core network changes and enhancements.
Network Droids Labs is a continuous infrastructure development and test capability designed to help Clients maintain a predicable network ecosystem by building and modelling tailored network infrastructure within a self-contained virtual environment. All without impact to mission critical operations.
The service is a unique extension of the Network Assessment delivering the network environment captured in the Client Report with a working replica.
The Network Droid Lab is designed to support key business outcomes ranging from Proof-of-Concept engagements, New Technology Introduction, Data Centre / Cloud Migrations, Software Upgrades, Architecture changes and Internal Training initiatives.
What are the benefits?
The Network Droids Lab provides a wide variety of benefits.
| Reduce Risk | Assure network behaviours validating changes and software upgrades |
| Maintain Currency | Verify new product versions and new technology introduction |
| Manage In-Life Change | Complex Change validation |
| Reduced Costs | Reduce downtime assuring network changes prior to production deployment and reduced time to market and reduced time to market |
What are the Common Use Cases?
The Network Droids Lab can be tailored to several use cases.
| Proof of Concept | Validate new concepts and features |
| Migration Assurance | Assure network transitions between current and end state architecture |
| Multi-Vendor Integration | Verification of Technology Interop between Vendors |
| Training | Operational training and awareness of network setup and change planning |
| Incident Support | Replicate fault scenarios and test fixes prior to production changes |