🖧 Networks & Data Centers

The Structural Fabric for Policy and Compute

Networks and Data Centers provide the physical and logical foundation for connectivity, segmentation, compute, and storage. SolveForce designs campus, wide-area, and data-center environments with clear topology, performance targets, and operational procedures.

Key Terms

  • Connectivity

    Business internet, private network, and voice links that connect a site to the internet, the cloud, or other sites.

  • Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS)

    A carrier-managed private WAN with QoS and traffic engineering between sites.

  • Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN)

    An overlay that routes application traffic across multiple underlays (fiber, coax, 5G, satellite) with policy-based steering and fast failover.

  • Edge

    Compute or network functions placed close to users or devices to cut latency.

  • Hybrid Cloud

    An environment that runs workloads across on-premises/private infrastructure and one or more public clouds, managed as one estate.

  • Disaster Recovery (DR)

    The plans, infrastructure, and testing that restore IT systems and data after a disruption, measured by RTO and RPO.

Part of the Five Pillars · Related pages: Connectivity · Colocation · SD-WAN · Cloud · MPLS · Cybersecurity · SolveForce AI · Hosted Voice

Capabilities

  • Topology design.Spine-and-leaf, SD-WAN overlays, and Zero Trust edges for scalable environments.
  • Performance targets.Latency and service-level objectives defined per application class.
  • Cloud on-ramps.Private connections to AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud.
  • Security fabric.Network access control, microsegmentation, and SASE integration.
  • Observability.Monitoring, logging, and documented incident procedures.

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Key terms in plain language

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Fiber Internet

Internet delivered through strands of glass using light. Fiber commonly supports high capacity, low latency, and strong upload performance, but availability must be confirmed for the exact address.

Latency

The time it takes data to travel between two points. Lower latency improves voice, video meetings, cloud applications, gaming, and other real-time services.

SD-WAN

Software-defined wide area networking. It manages multiple connections and chooses paths based on application needs, performance, and policy to improve resilience and control.

MPLS

Multiprotocol Label Switching, a private-network technology that directs traffic along managed paths. Organizations use it for predictable connectivity between locations.

Disaster Recovery (DRaaS)

A plan and service for restoring applications, data, and operations after an outage or disruption. DRaaS provides recovery infrastructure through a managed cloud service.

Cybersecurity

The practices and controls used to protect identities, devices, networks, applications, and data from unauthorized access, disruption, or manipulation.

Zero Trust

A security model that does not automatically trust a user or device because of its location. Access is continuously verified and limited to what is necessary.

SASE

Secure Access Service Edge combines networking and security capabilities in a cloud-delivered architecture so users and locations can receive consistent policy wherever they connect.