Optimize Your Network's Potential with Expert Consultants
As next-generation network technologies and digital business models continue to evolve, enterprises are under increasing pressure to modernize and reimagine their networks. Keeping pace with changing business demands while ensuring performance, security and scalability remains a complex challenge.
We help infrastructure and operations leaders address these challenges through enterprise network consulting and end-to-end network consulting services spanning network assessment, strategy, design and deployment. Our expertise across SD-WAN consulting, zero trust consulting and advanced network architectures, SD Access, SD-WAN, SASE, LAN/WLAN, private 5G, data center networking, multicloud networking, contact center and edge combined with intelligent network automation enables us to deliver secure, business-aligned networks built for the future.
Network Consulting and Assessment PEAR+ Framework
Our Framework
The proven PEAR (Prework, Explore, Analyze, Recommendation) framework addresses major challenges faced during your network transformation journey. Our team of network consultants, with relevant industry experience and vertical expertise, are ready to assist you on your journey to achieving your desired digital transformation goals aligned with your business requirements.
Phase 1
Prework
- Stakeholder alignment and mapping
- Workshop planning and agreements on deliverables
- Scope identification
- Risk identification
Phase 2
Explore
- Network design
- Network discovery and assessment evaluation with performance metrics
- Identify key success metrics and criteria for benchmarking
Phase 3
Analyze
- Network process, capacity, optimization analysis
- Analysis of siloed processes and tools
- Identify automation use cases for different application services
Phase 4
Recommendation
- Discuss recommendations and roadmap with cost and risk analysis
- Articulate a detailed execution plan with required efforts and timelines
- Align subject matter experts and transition to desired end state
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You Need the Right Strategy at the Right Time
Whether you’re rolling out a new network, adding new locations or downsizing, making the right decision is critical to your digital success. HCLTech Network Consulting and Assessment Services offers an array of services across a wide spectrum of network technologies, providing the right technical expertise, guidance and oversight you require to build your network to meet the demands of today and tomorrow.
Focus Area and In-scope Tracks
Upgrade your network with HCLTech's Managed SD-WAN services for enhanced agility, reduced costs, and simplified deployment. Transform your WAN Today.
Constellating your digital journey to the future of Network Edge
Multicloud Networking
Simplify network and application connectivity, achieve compliance and get valuable insights across cloud environments in a cost-efficient and secure manner.
IT-OT
Simplified, seamless, and scalable integration of IT and OT assets helps businesses remove inefficiencies. Let’s accelerate collaboration and innovation.
Data Center
Meet the prerequisites of innovation via world-class data center consulting services, helping enterprises to reduce costs, enhance security, and improve overall efficiency.
Streamline your network operations through intelligent network automation
Benefits
Accelerate your network transformation through consulting and assessment services
Awards and Recognitions
Leader in ISG Provider Lens™ Network - Software Defined Solutions and Services – Managed SD-WAN - UK 2024
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Case Studies
The client faced issues with non-standardized networks and overlapping tools, seeking a digital partner to identify business needs and assess their infrastructure.
Leveraging HCLTech’s Network Consulting and Assessment Services to streamline processes and gain market share for an American petrochemical giant.
Insights
Accelerate network transformation with right expertise, strategies and techniques
Our Network Consulting and Assessment Services offer a strategic roadmap and innovative solutions to navigate complexities and stay ahead of the curve.
Your Path to Agile, Future-Ready Networks Starts Here.
Network Consulting and Assessment Services
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Network Consulting and Assessment FAQ
Network Consulting and Assessment services refer to the strategic evaluation and analysis of an enterprise's network infrastructure to optimize performance, compliance, and future readiness. HCLTech offers these services and has been recognized as a "Leader" by IDC MarketScape.
Network Assessment is about understanding the current state of your network—covering environment review, performance, compliance, and design gaps through modules like NetGold, NetOps Insight, and NetEvolve.
Network Consulting is more strategic—focusing on future planning, technology adoption, proof-of-value, and architecture design through modules like NetGen Adoption, NetPoV, and NetArchitecture.
HCLTech offers a range of services, including NetGold Assessment for compliance and performance analysis, NetOps Insight for automation and capacity evaluation, NetEvolve for design and technology transformation, and NetGen Adoption for vendor-agnostic technology evaluation and migration strategies. Other modules include NetPoV (Proof Of Value) and NetArchitecture.
Yes, the network assessment service is chargeable. For pricing details, we request you to please fill in the contact details below. We have a standardised pricing calculator which is tiered based on scale of client infrastructure.
The timeline depends on customer requirements. HCLTech sets the scope and decides the appropriate service based on these requirements.
The enterprises utilize network consulting services include the need for strategic guidance, a lack of in-house resources and expertise, and a preference for outsourcing to specialized service providers. This approach helps businesses optimize their network infrastructure and achieve their goals more effectively.
HCLTech offers a structured approach through its PEAR Framework, which includes phases like Prework, Explore, Analyse, and Recommendation. This comprehensive portfolio of services covers areas such as WAN, Campus LAN, Automation, Contact Centre, Private 5G, IT-OT, Data Centre Networking, Multi Cloud Networking and many more.
Key benefits include achieving agility and innovation, continuous improvement, cost reduction, efficiency gains, accelerated outcomes and ensuring digital readiness. With 30+ years of expertise and 1,000+ network consultants, HCLTech is a trusted partner for global network transformation.
You can engage HCLTech by contacting us directly. We offer various engagement models to facilitate low-cost delivery and provide consulting services that align with your budget and timelines.
HCLTech differentiates itself through agility, innovation, and a client-centric approach. With over 30 years of expertise in network transformations, we combine a comprehensive technology stack with tailored Proof of Concept (PoC) and Proof of Value (PoV) initiatives to demonstrate measurable outcomes. Our advanced Center of Excellence labs enable real-time simulations, ensuring cutting-edge solutions. Additionally, HCLTech’s transparent and flexible pricing models, coupled with faster engagement lead times, make us more responsive to client demands compared to traditional consulting firms.