Define the design
Map users, sites, applications, capacity, security requirements, topology, and technical standards.
NETWORK ENGINEERING & DEPLOYMENT / 3PSDESIGN THE PATH.
DESIGN THE PATH.
CONNECT THE BUSINESS.
3PS connects network architecture, equipment sourcing, configuration, installation, and validation across one site or a nationwide rollout. Routing, wireless, firewalls, VPN, and segmentation are designed around the workflows they support.
500+ customers served.
Backed by 100+ professionals and technical resources across our delivery network.
From architecture to an accepted network.
Coordinate the deployment
Connect procurement, configuration, staging, field resources, installation, cutover, and rollback in one delivery plan.
Validate and hand over
Test the business workflow and document diagrams, configurations, access, vendor contacts, and operating responsibility.
The application is blamed. The network path changed.
Some users resolve an old address, a stale firewall object still matches traffic, and return traffic follows another ISP path. Each individual console can look healthy while the workflow remains blocked.
What we examine
DNS answers, NAT matches, route tables, packet paths, VPN state, ISP evidence, and application logs in a shared timeline.
What the investigation produces
The confirmed failing handoff or remaining candidates, responsible owners, proposed changes, and workflow validation.
The engagement establishes the work, authority, and acceptance required.
Examine the complete network path.
Vendor boundaries
Correlate client, ISP, firewall, cloud, server, and application evidence to identify where traffic stops, changes, or slows.
Firewall and route drift
Review policy, NAT, VPN, DNS, routes, updates, object changes, and logs against the affected workflow.
Switching and wireless
Check physical links, VLANs, loops, ports, access points, wireless associations, and the path from endpoints to core services.
Change history
Reconstruct the timeline, preserve useful evidence, and separate a justified rollback from speculative changes.
THE WORK IN MOTION
Trace the handoff. Validate the recovery.
Turn the symptom into path evidence.
- 01
Define the symptom
Identify affected users, the failed workflow, start time, and recent changes.
- 02
Trace the path
Test client, switch, AP, firewall, VPN, DNS, ISP, cloud, server, and application hops.
- 03
Correlate the logs
Review firewall events, port status, wireless associations, VPN state, DNS answers, and provider evidence.
- 04
Control the changes
Record approved changes, their intended effects, validation, and rollback paths.
- 05
Coordinate the vendors
Give providers the evidence and timeline needed to investigate their part of the path and assign next actions.
- 06
Validate the workflow
Test the business process, record the result, and identify any remaining issues.
A record of the path and the result.
Path map
Users, network devices, firewall, ISP, DNS, cloud, servers, applications, and the dependencies between them.
Change and incident timeline
Observed symptoms, changes, vendor responses, tests, decisions, and recovery validation.
Technical evidence
Logs, screenshots, packet captures, route checks, and provider case notes where available and appropriate.
Findings and next actions
The confirmed failure point or remaining responsible layers, with unresolved questions and an action owner.
Improvement plan
Monitoring, configuration control, segmentation, redundancy, and vendor escalation priorities.
Keep the topology connected to the operation.
Maintain the baseline
Document internet, firewall, VLAN, wireless, VPN, DNS, and application dependencies, with owners and change history.
Scope network management
3PS Lock can include switches, APs, and firewalls. Planning figures start at $15 per switch/AP per month and $125 per firewall per month, additional to the annual engagement; final scope and pricing are quoted.
Keep the escalation path current
Continuing work can maintain vendor contacts, environment knowledge, review priorities, and the evidence baseline for difficult incidents.
Examples of continuing work. The agreement defines covered systems, deliverables, resources, working hours, reporting, and response commitments. Hardware, software, dedicated resources, and projects are included only when stated; Critical Response is separately priced.
LET’S DEFINE
THE NEXT MOVE.
Bring the objective, the environment, and what needs to change. We will connect the right disciplines around a defined engagement.
PLAN YOUR NETWORK INITIATIVE