Tier-1 router based networks utlising the following national and international carriageway services:
Basic rate and Primary ISDN
DDS Fastway
Frame Relay
HFC Cable modem
ADSL
PSTN modem
Cabling, hub and ethernet switch design.
Professional systems engineering in the following environments:
Windows NT, Windows 2000, Peer to peer and domain models
Novell Netware
UNIX (AIX, HPUX, Solaris, SCO, Linux and FreeBSD)
Firewall installations involving all leading vendor products. Comprehensive security policy management and network-wide implementation.
Professional Internet and intranet security implementations involving all leading vendor products
External and Internet security auditing and penetration testing
Operating system hardening and security hotfixing
Comprehensive network backup and disaster recovery strategies involving:
Agent based, centralised tape backup schemes
Near line and offline storage options
Disk redundancy involving mirroring and raid technologies
Network application considerations as MS backoffice, Lotus notes, Netware environments
Dialup and permanent remote access facilities for telecommuters involving:
Dialin pool facilities involving PSTN modem connections
Small office - Home office (SOHO) ISDN & PSTN connections
Secure encrypted network access via insecure internet connections
VPN Wide-Area network design and network bandwidth considerations
Leading vendor VPN hardware and software solutions
IPSEC standard encryption implementations
Open source implementations
Latest generation, centralised network application deployment in the following environments:
Citrix ICA metaframe/winframe implementations
Microsoft windows terminal server RDP implementations
Unix / Linux Xwindows implementations
WAN / Internet based deployment design and implementation