Network Consulting and Integration

Network consulting services are defined as those activities associated with planning, designing, and building local and wide area data networks (e.g. LANs and WANs), including multiservice, converged wireless, and wireline networks that allow voice, video, and data applications (such as VoIP and unified messaging) to be propagated across a single, common infrastructure. Network consulting services activities include network strategy and planning, network design, network security consulting, capacity planning, network analysis and tuning, operations assessment, needs assessment, process improvement, benchmarking, maintenance planning, resident engineering, network optimization, and adoption and knowledge transfer. Specifically, the NCIS network consulting market includes services provided to telecommunications network access and transport providers for the planning and building of the public integrated voice, data, and video network infrastructures.

Network integration services are defined as those activities associated with building local and wide area data networks (e.g. LANs and WANs), including multiservice, converged
wireless, and wireline networks that allow voice, video, and data applications (such as VoIP and unified messaging) to be propagated across a single, common infrastructure.
Specifically, the networking integration market includes services provided to telecommunications network access and transport providers for the planning and building of the public integrated voice, data, and video network infrastructures.