Documentation is vital throughout the entire life of a network. From design and deploy, through operation and enhancement to final decommissioning, it allows you to get the best from your network.
The fundamental benefits of documentation:
- new team members are able to get up to speed faster;
- less time and money is spent on downtime and remediation;
must be weighed against less visible, but nonetheless important, benefits:
- your company presents a more professional appearance to the market place;
- time is not wasted searching for information, so staff can engage in profitable activities.
That’s obvious: few would dispute the benefit of good documentation, so why is it so often so badly done or left incomplete? Teams are pushed to get results, (in the context of a network project, to get the network working and handed over to users). Documentation will be done “afterwards”, and so often the resources who should document are diverted. Sound familiar?
This is where NetUnity steps in. We produce quality High- and Low-Level designs, topology documentation, standards documents, and pretty much any kind of documentation found supporting networks, to existing standards or standards we can introduce. We have no distractions: we are tasked to do the documentation, and we do it till it’s done.