Whether within a single office or across a region of several square miles, BIG can analyze your networking needs and design a local area network (LAN) or wide area network (WAN) to provide the connectivity your users need. Our engineers have successfully installed and maintain networks using the full gamut of technologies, including fiber, T-1, and wireless.  

Concerned about the risks of storing your confidential, proprietary, or business critical information on a network with many users? Let BIG help. We can protect you from outside threats and set up internal security that gives each user access only to the data he or she needs. We have proven experience with several antivirus, SPAM filtering, firewall, and intrusion protection systems, and can recommend the system that is right for you. If users need to access your network from outside locations, BIG can establish a virtual private network (VPN), that allows recognized users to link in securely from anyplace they have an Internet connection. We can set up event reporting that provides immediate notification of a possible attack.  

Disaster recovery planning and implementation allows you to provide high availability with virtually no down time in mission critical environments. Disaster recovery consists of multiple items including redundant server hardware, backup power (generator), backup data/voice lines, failover VPN’s as well as the use of “Hot” and “Cold” DR sites.  

You may be unsure about the most appropriate technologies for file sharing, data storage, print servers, databases, email, and the myriad computing needs within your organization. Let BIG’s experienced network engineers assess your current systems and anticipated growth to recommend and install the upgrades and extensible systems that are the right size for your requirements and your budget. When necessary, products can be installed to restrict and monitor users’ web access as well as furnish reports on user activities.  

Moves, remote locations, merging enterprises and new acquisitions are nothing new to us. BIG has the know-how to bring disparate systems into the network and let real communication begin!  

For users who are on the go or need to be in touch 24/7, mobile data services or a Blackberry Enterprise Server may be the right approach. BIG has established anytime/anywhere access for several clients.  

When you have numerous office locations or dozens of users at just a few locations, managing user configurations and application setups becomes a complicated task. BIG can centralize configuration management by integrating your applications into a terminal server environment. Then, deploying thin clients and setting up roaming profiles will allow users the flexibility to work locally or remotely while retaining their custom desktop settings. Additionally, if an emergency would cause one location to be inaccessible, or if a single thin client fails, users can move to another facility or workstation and continue to have full network access.  

BIG technicians are certified in leading technologies from Cisco and Nortel and can design and install Voice over IP phone networks, providing you with a cost-effective phone system. In many deployments, voice and data are configured to run on separate VLANs with Quality of Service in place to ensure traffic is routed in proper order.  

Outgrowing your existing computing capability? BIG can help you migrate from one generation to the next and move existing profiles, data, and mail messages to your new servers.  

For effective decision-making, you sometimes need to get a grip on the status of your network and its client computers. BIG technicians can audit your systems and show the status and usage of both hardware and software. Audit reports may include: groups and their associated users, permissions, hard drive capacity, virus protection status, critical events from the server logs, software installed since last audit, or print logs.