As part of this process, companies need to leverage existing systems to avoid downtime and ensure performance. Also, the network will need to leverage technologies from multiple vendors, which encompass many protocols, configurations, and connectivity requirements. The scenario also must include implementation planning, detailed logical and physical network design, rapid deployment and network rollouts, product installation and customization and operational services for network and cabling infrastructures.

Once up and running, network monitoring and management solutions must be implemented. Performance, availability, and security must constantly be considered as well as maximizing the costs of managing the network. Technologies also under consideration are firewall's, virtual private networking (VPN), IP Telephony, Voice over IP (VoIP) and converged data/voice/video networks.

Microvision consultants and professionals offer skills for companies that want to focus on their core business and bring on trained professionals to run the network for them. Microvision consultants offer a complete range of services from IP convergence, enhanced security and virtual private networks (VPN's), to distributed, edge-of-network server and storage computing environments and other next-generation network applications.