Starnet Data Design, Inc.
One Stop for Critical Network Device Care

In the constantly growing technology industry, IT consumers face a major challenge in maintaining their technology investments and ongoing operations. Consumers need technology solutions that meet the exact requirements of their business, so as to gain maximum value out of their investments and boost IT efficiency. Augmented by expert network engineering services, Starnet enhances customer service relationships by leveraging sophisticated tools, expert engineering services and efficiency-focused processes. With Starnet, customers receive the benefit of tailored, strategic monitoring, proactive, efficiency enhancing services, and critical network device care. “All designed and delivered with 2 objectives in mind, uptime and performance,” begins Steve Marks, President and CEO of Starnet Data Design.

Starnet helps mid-market enterprises, educational institutions and government entities maximize their investments in Information Technology solutions, by designing, installing and maintaining high-performance, scalable and stable networks to run their business. The company works with selected technologies that they feel deliver strong value propositions and those that they can support to a high degree, like Juniper. “We are constantly reviewing emerging technologies early in their life cycle, and be ready to design and deploy them once we feel the solution is mature and the customer is ready for its production use,” illustrates Marks.

StarWATCH, the company’s flagship IT Efficiency Management service, blends together a number of critical service and support processes, designed to maximize network uptime and optimize application performance. It works particularly well with Juniper networking technologies enabling Starnet to support its Juniper customers with a unique and customized service offering that maximizes the reliability and performance of networks built with Juniper products. StarWATCH represents a new paradigm in Remote Managed Network Services (RMNS). Positioned for the mid-market enterprise customer, StarWATCH provides clients a methodology for driving IT environments to 100 percent efficiency. Through network base-lining, strategic metrics monitoring, actionable efficiency improvement task management, critical network device firmware and configuration management, company is applying process and procedure to the areas often neglected in maintaining enterprise networks.

“By executing these processes proactively, we prevent most unpredicted outages and degradations of performance,” says Marks. Under StarWATCH, Starnet takes responsibility for maintaining the health of a customer’s critical core network devices. The company’s engineering team ensures that the devices that are critical to the efficiency of the IT environment are maintained in an optimized operating state; including ensuring the devices are running the most appropriate versions of firmware. If upgrades to the firmware are dictated, Starnet engineers perform the upgrades as part of StarWATCH.

By delivering a service offering that successfully assists customers in keeping their networks operating at peak efficiency, we can elevate to the status of a customer's preferred technology partner

Starnet assisted a growing financial services provider in designing a network infrastructure that was highly scalable using Juniper technology and the company has grown drastically ever since the implementation. By implementing the correct core networking infrastructure the client was able to scale up their network without having to endure any major equipment upgrades. The resilient scalable network foundation deployed allowed them to grow significantly without having to change their core network. Starnet has been serving its customers for 28 years and has maintained its market positioning as a trusted Value Add Solutions Provider (VASP) through consistent positioning of networking engineering excellence. Through the years, Starnet has always concentrated on delivering a high degree of network engineering expertise. “By delivering a service offering that successfully assists customers in keeping their networks operating at peak efficiency, we can elevate to the status of a customer’s preferred technology partner,” concludes Marks.