Complete Coverage Of Your Networking Needs

Whether you want to outsource your complete IT Services or have J&J provide experienced help to your current IT personnel, we can assist by providing the following type of services:

• Network Management – Manage all servers, routers and firewalls

• Desktop Management

• Telephone Support

• Remote Support – Via PC Anywhere or other Remote Control Utility

• After Hours Support

Local Area Networks

A local area network (LAN) is a computer network covering a local area, like a home, office, or group of buildings.

Each computer in the LAN has its own computing power but it can also access other devices on the LAN subject to the permissions it has been allowed. These could include data, printers, storage devices and user directories just to name a few.

The defining characteristics of LANs, in contrast to WANs (wide area networks), are: their much higher data rates, smaller geographic range, and that they do not require leased telecommunication lines.

Advantages Of A Local Area Network:

Connectivity and Communication: Networks connect computers and the users of those computers. Individuals within a building can be connected into local area networks (LANs); LANs in distant locations can be interconnected into larger wide area networks (WANs). Once connected, it is possible for network users to communicate with each other using technologies like electronic mail. This makes the transmission of business information easier, more efficient, secure and less expensive than it would be without the network.

Data Sharing: One of the most important uses of networking is to allow the sharing of data. Before networking was common, an Human Resources employee who wanted to prepare a report for her manager would have to produce it on his PC, put it on portable media, and then walk it over to the manager, who would transfer the data to her PC's hard disk.

True networking allows thousands of employees to share data much more easily and quickly than this. More so, it allows programs to be accessed by many users simultaneously such as databases or 3rd party software.

Hardware Sharing: Networks facilitate the sharing of hardware devices. For example, instead of giving each of 10 employees in a department an expensive color printer, one printer can be placed on the network for everyone to share.

Internet Access: The Internet is an enormous network, so whenever you access the Internet, you are using a network. Through the use of secure routers, you entire organization can have access at a very affordable price.

Data Security and Management: In a business environment, a network allows the administrators to much better manage the company's critical data. Instead of having this data spread over dozens or even hundreds of small computers in a haphazard fashion as their users create it, data can be centralized on shared servers. This makes it easy for everyone to find the data, makes it possible for the administrators to ensure that the data is regularly backed up, and also allows for the implementation of security measures to control who can read or change various pieces of critical information.

Performance Enhancement: Under some circumstances, a network can be used to enhance the overall performance of some applications by distributing the computation tasks to various computers on the network.

Wide Area Networks

A wide area network (WAN) is a computer network that covers a broad geographical area (i.e., any network whose communications links cross metropolitan, regional, or national boundaries). Or, less formally, a network that uses routers and public communications links. The largest and most well-known example of a WAN is the Internet.

Wide Area Networks have the same advantages as it’s local brother, but span a greater geographical area.

Virtual Private Networks

A virtual private network (VPN) is a private communications network often used within a company, or by several companies or organizations, to communicate confidentially over a publicly accessible network. VPN message traffic can be carried over a public networking infrastructure (e.g. the Internet) on top of standard protocols, or over a service provider's private network with a defined Service Level Agreement (SLA) between the VPN customer and the VPN service provider.

Advantages Of A Virtual Private Network:

• Extend geographic connectivity.
• Improve security where data lines have not been ciphered.
• Reduce operational costs versus traditional WAN.
• Reduce transit time and transportation costs for remote users.
• Simplify network topology in certain scenarios.
• Provide global networking opportunities.
• Provide telecommuter support.
• Provide broadband networking compatibility.
• Provide faster ROI (return on investment) than traditional carrier leased/owned WAN lines.
• Show a good economy of scale.

 What To Expect By Selecting J&J

• A free on-site needs assessment will be performed by one of our qualified technicians

• Complete review of options. You will only get what your business needs based on your current and future specifications

• We will perform all necessary cabling

• Work around your schedule to implement the servers, testing and switch over.

• Train your employees how to properly use the network