Desagregación de Redes para impulsar el crecimiento

Network disaggregation to drive growth

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We live in times of great changes and technological progress, particularly in the information technology (IT) industry, where there is a concept arising as a pillar of growth and business collaboration, and that pillar is network disaggregation.

First of all, network disaggregation means that new operators can access the technologies and cost advantages of a dominating company; that is, new telecommunications companies accessing the physical, technical or logical elements of a larger company.

In addition to the advantages this represents for such companies, network disaggregation also generates many benefits for other businesses such as cost reduction due to more competition in the market which, by the way, also produces greater innovation.

More competition and innovation

Network disaggregation has brought about the development of competition among operators because offers of fixed telecommunications services occur in homogeneous conditions of coverage, technological development, and quality.

In the same manner, network disaggregation has made it possible to optimize and generate efficiencies in the deployment and use of infrastructure networks that benefit end clients who, in turn, are empowered by their choice of services providers.

The benefits of network disaggregation

There are several key benefits network disaggregation has to offer and therefore are important to highlight. These include a significant reduction in capital expenses and exploitation expenses for the partners involved.

Network disaggregation also generates new and improved services thanks to more players participating in the market. Besides, it accelerates geographical deployment, which leads to greater coverage and better interconnection speeds.

Finally, on the economy side, network disaggregation helps to reduce prices due to a broad range of supplier options for end clients. On top of this, the government receives higher tax revenue.

It’s important to point out, however, that this practice involves potential risks that need to be kept in mind and worked on to reduce their impact as much as possible.

For the parties sharing infrastructure, there is always potential for conflict. Conflicts between partners are common, but also easy to resolve.

Besides the risk for conflict between parties, technical incompatibilities could become an issue that could disrupt managing end-to-end client experience.

Learn about the possibilities for your business

As we’ve already mentioned, network disaggregation has driven competition and innovation. This in turn, drives key sectors including the manufacturing, energy, commercial, financial services, and entertainment sectors.

To make the most of what network disaggregation can offer, at NGIN Services we have brilliant experts who can leverage aspects of your business needs for optimal performance and interconnection with partners, suppliers or clients.

If your company is in the field of telecommunications, we are your best option for network architecture solutions, and to help you benefit the most from them, as well as optimize them. Our technological allies, like Juniper and Ciena, are among the most renowned in the market. Contact us!

Consejos para la prevención de ataques DDoS

Advice on preventing DDoS attacks

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Distributed denial of service or DDoS attacks can cause important damage and monetary losses to companies. This is why today we’ll share a few words of advice on how to prevent DDoS attacks.

First of all, it’s worth noting that there are a few, more common, targets for attacks of this kind such as internet shopping sites, online casinos and any company or organization that depends on online services.

It’s important to prevent DDoS attacks because they can cause responses to requests in an infrastructure to slow down or even be ignored. In other words, even though a DDoS attack may not affect the infrastructure of a website, it will cause financial losses, in addition to drops in sales and audience unsatisfaction.

Preventing DDoS attacks to networks

Although it is normal to fear potential hacker attacks, it’s also important to pay attention to real traffic from visitors who are genuinely interested in visiting your website. So, let’s discuss a few actions to prevent DDoS attacks.

  1. Acquire an ISP (internet services provider):

Many ISPs offer DDoS attack prevention services, but you have to report the attack so your ISP can respond to the incident. This could mean up to 60 minutes delay for mitigation to begin.

  1. Local system:

One way of preventing these attacks consists in using an intrusion system, firewall technology and specialty hardware. Unfortunately, affected traffic is already in the network taking up valuable bandwidth.

  1. Using a Content Delivery Network (CDN):

This approach to prevent DDoS attacks minimizes corporate infrastructure exposure because IT can keep this infrastructure behind a content delivery network (CDN). If the organization subscribes to DNS and DDoS  mitigation, e-commerce sites, and the company itself can also be protected.

  1. Blackhole Routing:

This is one way to practically end all DDoS attacks. It’s about creating a blackhole route and concentrating all traffic on it. However, this route needs to be created with screening criteria, otherwise all traffic could be directed to that route throughout the entire attack.

  1. Rate limiting:

Rate limiting for a period can be another way to prevent DDoS attacks, although it is not very effective. This action does not keep traffic from performing basic actions, which in turn may lead to longer load time and consequently, to more failures.

  1. Web Application Firewall:

WAF is an effective strategy used in layer 7; in other words, between the internet network and supplier of origin, where WAF acts like a reverse proxy.

  1. Anycast network diffusion:

This approach uses unlimited diffusion to distribute attacking traffic through a network of distributed servers to the point where the network absorbs the traffic.

What tools to choose?

The answer to this question actually depends on both the size and the needs of your business. Nevertheless, preventing DDoS attacks is clearly necessary for company websites with a lot of user interaction.

We are technology partners with Beyond Technology. At NGIN Services we have a team of experts who will help you choose the best option for your site and company. Contact us to get your quotation today.

La importancia del monitoreo de redes para una empresa

The importance of network monitoring in a company

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Network monitoring is one of the responsibilities of a company’s IT department. In other words, optimal monitoring allows a business to potentiate results and obtain different       advantages for the future of a company.

Network monitoring systems include an integration of several software and hardware tools that allow you to track different aspects of the network and how it functions. These systems can therefore detect each element in the network, or that touch it at some point, while also providing status updates.

In the event of a failure in the network it only makes sense to have the tools necessary to face the situation.

For example, starting a session directly on your device is not the best way to detect and resolve an alert situation, nor is it a good idea to grant access to everyone on the team. In addition to its associated risks, it’s an option that doesn’t scale up to expansion equipment.

Evidently, what your company needs is instant access to infrastructure analysis that will allow you to detect, isolate and quickly solve any issue in the network.

Aspects to consider when selecting a network monitoring tool

When selecting a tool for network monitoring it’s important to consider elements that will help you perform early analyses of infrastructure needs for the future and improve IT resources.

  • Functions: Network monitoring tools should satisfy basic monitoring requirements such as bandwidth, availability and use. Observing details like extensive support for common protocols and technologies is also necessary. At the same time, one should consider features that will facilitate use and accessibility like configurable alert notifications, notification functions, and customizable dashboards.
  • Artificial intelligence and machine learning: Network monitoring tools also make it possible to incorporate AI and machine learning, because both prosper around data. Thanks to these technologies, monitoring tools can be adapted to the network environment and provide suggestions by considering available data.
  • Automation: makes it possible for monitoring tools to react according to thresholds or sets of rules and/or criteria that need to be met. This will help detect and solve problems automatically.
  • Scope: Network monitoring tools provide comprehensive and detailed visibility that keeps you up to date with the status of the network.
  • Scalability: This is an important feature to consider, particularly now that networks are perpetual. Scalability helps the network keep up with growing productivity, trends, and changing needs. It also guarantees that general performance of the network will not degrade significantly.

Why does your company need it?

Networks are one of the most important elements in any company. If the network should fail and stop transmitting necessary data, the company would stop rendering services which would likely translate into multiple problems that could last even longer than the actual downtime.

Indeed, a network monitoring took will let you potentiate your results and will contribute advantages for the future of your company.

If you’d like to improve your company’s infrastructure analysis via network monitoring tools don’t hesitate to get in touch with us. NGIN Services provides integral and personalized network solutions to every one of our clients. Call us today!

¿Cómo funciona la automatización de redes?

How does network automation work?

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These days speed, efficiency and flexibility have become the most important considerations for companies, particularly when they are linked to security, efficiency, and reduced costs. And this is what network automation provides.

Network automation is a process in which software will automatically test, manage, and configure different devices in a network.

Once daily tasks and functions are automated, services availability in the network improves.  Additionally, repetitive processes can be controlled and managed in a fully automatic way.

Network automation tools include from basic network assignment and device discovery to more complex workflows; for example, managing network configuration and provisioning virtual network resources.

Network automation also plays a key role in software-defined networks, which enable automatic host provisioning and virtual network functions such as balancing virtual loads.

Benefits of network automation

Data and the use of devices are growing, so the cost of IT for network operations is also rising and exceeding IT capacity, making manual approaches obsolete.

By automating services and network resources management, network operations equipment gain flexibility and efficiency and, consequently, help backup modern business demands.

Greater IT automation managed remotely and centrally allows companies to not only stay up to date but also to optimize processes.

Network automation, however, also provides other benefits that we will now explain briefly.

  • Easy process execution: Automation facilitates a series of processes that do not require constant human decision-making, thereby reducing the margin for human error.
  • Efficiency in company tasks: Reducing the time invested in company tasks generates greater efficiency, so employees and associates can focus on other highly important work.
  • Reduction in unnecessary costs: Network automation lets companies reduce costs that could originate from keeping manual processes. For example, acquiring licenses or programs that later will become obsolete and, therefore, unnecessary.

The future of your company lies in automation

Integrating network automation has allowed many companies to improve progress in their activities by optimizing processes and, therefore, saving time and money.

With network automation, you can design and apply policies throughout the network in a simple and quick way. The flexibility of network automation also gives you the opportunity to choose forms and rhythms.

Automation is enabled with a graphic user interface that allows users to determine how network operations will be carried out in order to fulfill specific goals. All of this is accomplished in the configuration and with changes in the administration of network components.

Why choose NGIN Services?

Because we offer solutions adapted to your needs. If you require network automation in your company or any other service for your IT department, NGIN Services is the option for you. We have a team of certified engineers who follow the highest standards in the industry.     Call us today!

Transforma tu negocio con la Virtualización de Redes

Transform your business with network virtualization

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Companies are facing new scenarios in which data centers are no longer enclosed physical structures, so connectivity is key to IT infrastructure deployment. Therefore, it’s important to talk about network virtualization.

Network virtualization is an efficient way to manage telecommunications and provides greater flexibility and agility to face service demands. It also uses software to combine several physical networks into a single virtual network, which makes it possible to divide a physical network into several independent virtual networks.

This means that you can use software to centralize all services traditionally executed through CPD hardware such as routing or WAN and Firewall optimization.

Internet traffic continues to grow, which makes network virtualization crucial to more rational resource management. Besides, it cuts costs, reduces latency and improves user experience.

Advantages of Network Virtualization

There’s no question that network virtualization supports business transformation. Network Function Visualization (NFV) technology can be linked to Software Defined Networks (SDN) and substitute hardware-defined IT network architectures with software that manages and executes the entire deployment.

In other words, this software groups together resources in a physical network such as switchboards and routers to make them accessible for any user via a centralized management system. Thus, instead of a specific task, every piece of equipment is assigned a software (that could change in the future) and that can be exchanged among other equipment in the same network.

This focus allows you to superimpose one or more logically separate networks on top of a physical network, thereby eliminating time/space limitations. Additionally, this can be applied where and whenever necessary without having to wait for complex, manually built deployments.

In the same manner, network virtualization provides a smart access layer that recognizes the specific needs of each resource or service automatically dissecting it to a given network to guarantee high performance.

Let’s talk about function virtualization

We’ve already mentioned that network virtualization is supported by SDN and NFV. NFV has to do with virtualizing network functions and allows every node become a data center capable of hosting different applications. That is what network flexibilization is all about.

NFV technology can therefore turn a local telecommunications node into the operator of a service provided to clients, so that when a large number of users are utilizing a certain application, a node nearby will host it and in this way reduce latency in the network.

We at NGIN Services are experts in IT solutions. We can help you transform your business with network virtualization services so you can reap the benefits of lower network latency, greater flexibility and most of all, better security and cost reduction for your company. Contact us today!