Layer 02 · Network · Project or subscription
Enterprise & Data Centre Networking
STP designs and operates enterprise networks (campus, branch and data centre fabric) including application-centric infrastructure, east-west and north-south traffic management, and Network-as-a-Service where you would rather subscribe than buy switches.
Enterprise & Data Centre Networking
Application performance is usually decided by network design, not by server specification. When a distributed application is slow, the cause is frequently east-west traffic crossing a fabric that was designed only for north-south flows: traffic going up to the core and back down again because there was no better path.
We design the fabric around the traffic your applications actually generate, segment it so a compromise in one zone does not become a compromise everywhere, and document the intent so the next engineer understands why it looks the way it does.
Network-as-a-Service converts this into a subscription: STP specifies, owns, installs, monitors and refreshes the equipment for a monthly fee per site or per port. For multi-site organisations this replaces an unpredictable refresh cycle with a known operating cost.
What is included
- Campus LAN and wireless design, survey and deployment
- Data centre fabric design (leaf-spine, application centric infrastructure)
- East-west and north-south traffic engineering
- Network segmentation and micro-segmentation
- Routing and switching design, implementation and migration
- Firewall policy design and implementation
- WAN and multi-site interconnect, SD-WAN
- Wireless site survey, heat mapping and validation
- Network monitoring, flow visibility and capacity reporting
- Network-as-a-Service: equipment, operation and refresh by subscription
What you get out of it
- Application latency addressed at its actual cause
- Blast radius contained by segmentation designed in, not retrofitted
- Predictable network cost per site instead of capital spikes
Our own work
Evidence produced
Patch field with consistent service loops 
Cable management at the rack entry 
Equipment suite, powered and handed over
Questions
- What is the difference between east-west and north-south traffic?
- North-south traffic flows between a client and a server, typically in and out of the data centre. East-west traffic flows between servers inside the data centre: for example between an application tier and a database, or between microservices. Modern applications generate far more east-west traffic than older ones, and a fabric designed only for north-south flows forces that traffic through the core, adding latency and creating a bottleneck.
- Is Network-as-a-Service cheaper than buying switches?
- Not always cheaper in total, but far more predictable. It removes the capital purchase, the refresh cycle and the spare-parts problem, and it moves fault resolution to us. It is most attractive for multi-site organisations and for businesses that would rather not hold network expertise in-house.
Enterprise & Data Centre Networking
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