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Network Assessment

Understand your network’s risks and what to fix first. Get prioritized findings, current-state diagrams, and a review with your team.

Scope an assessment

Free 30-minute scoping call with a subject matter expert.

When this helps

  • You are planning a refresh, migration, or growth initiative and need a baseline before committing.
  • Recurring incidents or performance complaints need a broader review.
  • You are inheriting or acquiring a network and need to understand its condition and likely costs.

What we examine

We agree on the questions and boundaries before reviewing these six areas.

  • Architecture & design

    Topology, routing, switching, and fit for current and planned workloads.

  • Security posture

    Segmentation, 802.1X access control, firewall policy, remote access, and management-plane exposure.

  • Resilience

    Single points of failure, failover behavior, and recovery times.

  • Performance & capacity

    Utilization, latency, error rates, and headroom for growth.

  • Operations

    Monitoring, alerting, change control, configuration consistency, and documentation.

  • Lifecycle & cost

    Support status, licensing, and spend against your existing roadmap.

Need a focused review?

Targeted assessments apply the same method to a smaller scope.

  • SD-WAN & SASE readiness
  • Wireless
  • Firewall policy
  • Cloud connectivity
  • Pre-acquisition due diligence

What you receive

  • Findings & prioritiesEvidence, risk ratings, effort estimates, and a sequenced plan with dependencies.
  • Executive summaryThe network’s condition and investment priorities, written for leadership.
  • Architecture baselineCurrent-state diagrams, inventory, and support status for the platforms in scope.
  • Team walkthroughA working session to review the report and agree on next steps.

Practical questions

We gather evidence, validate findings with your engineers, and review the report together. Your team, Metis, or a partner can carry out the recommendations.

How we work
What access do you need?

A mutual NDA comes before any access. We use read-only accounts, exported configurations, and existing monitoring data. Packet captures, when needed, are agreed with your team.

Will the assessment disrupt the network?

Evidence gathering is read-only, with interviews scheduled around your team. Most work is remote; wireless surveys and physical reviews bring us onsite. Any remediation is separately agreed.

How is an assessment priced?

Fixed fee against an agreed scope, quoted after the scoping call. Targeted reviews have a smaller scope and price. You receive scope, deliverables, and price before work begins.

Strategy & Architecture

Implementation & Migration

Start with a 30-minute scoping call.

A free conversation with a subject matter expert about your network and the next step.

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