Updated: Aug 05, 2025
The network is the last thing you want to notice. If your teams in Chennai, Pune, or Gurugram are complaining about sluggish performance, dropped calls, or device outages, the damage is already done.
For a CIO overseeing multiple plants and offices, visibility gaps and reactive firefighting have become daily occurrences. Then comes the board meeting. The CISO flags lateral movement via unmanaged switches. The CFO asks why the MPLS bills haven't dropped despite cloud migrations. That’s your signal. The network needs to be rethought.
Proactive Data Systems proposes a phased 100-day network modernization journey. Unlike partners who push hardware, Proactive builds a plan around your real topology, not the ideal state. Here’s what that roadmap looks like.
Across your campuses, remote sites, and edge locations, the first milestone is full discovery. That means documenting every switch, access point, and router, mapping VLANs, and uncovering unmanaged devices. In a recent project for a Tier-1 supplier in Manesar, this exercise exposed 123 shadow devices, including cameras, printers, and unmanaged hubs.
Your current network is rated on latency, uptime, packet loss, and policy violations. Proactive’s NOC uses real-time probes and traffic pattern analysis to flag silent issues. In one retail chain's head office, a nightly backup saturated a key uplink link, slowing business traffic until 2 AM. No one knew. Now they do.
Design isn’t just about topology. It’s about which plant needs the lowest latency, which sites need secure guest Wi-Fi, and how cloud apps can bypass your data center. This phase aligns network priorities with business outcomes: uptime for OT, segmentation for compliance, wireless density for collaboration.
Before touching your full estate, Proactive implements a controlled network upgrade at two to three key sites. Usually a head office and a high-volume plant. Components like SD-WAN, PoE switches, and cloud-based management (e.g. Cisco Meraki) are introduced. This gives your team real hands-on time, not just a lab demo.
Access control is overhauled. Role-based policies are introduced across VLANs. IoT devices in factories are segmented, guest Wi-Fi gets firewalled, and bandwidth throttles are applied. Security improves not by adding firewalls, but by applying rules where they were missing.
With central management now online, you get dashboards, not ticket trails. Network anomalies, rogue devices, and link flaps become visible across locations. In a Chennai pharma facility, this phase helped the IT team identify that 8 per cent of access points were never used but still powered.
Based on pilot success, modernization expands to all plants and offices in phases. Proactive coordinates with your internal team, maintaining operations even during cutovers. Cloud-managed switches, zero-touch provisioning, and templated configurations ensure every site behaves the same.
Networks are no longer configured manually. Policy changes are propagated centrally. Anomaly detection, root cause suggestions, and self-healing capabilities are introduced. For example, if the network in your Jaipur warehouse spikes in latency, an automated reroute kicks in without needing a call.
Proactive helps run end-user benchmarks. Faster logins, seamless VoIP calls, uninterrupted video on Teams. Metrics get tracked against Day 1 benchmarks. One ITES firm in Hyderabad saw a 34 per cent drop in network-related support tickets.
Modernization doesn't end with deployment. Proactive's NOC monitors your estate 24x7. Monthly performance reviews, change management workflows, and capacity planning are now embedded. Your team gets more strategic, less reactive.
AI-Ops is the real deal. It gives you the ability to forecast issues, propose bandwidth reallocations, and flag hardware degradation before users notice. This is the shift from managing to anticipating.
Custom reports for CIOs, plant heads, and the board are auto-generated. SLAs, uptime scores, policy compliance, and even carbon savings from smarter power usage. The network becomes a measurable business asset.
This isn’t a tech refresh. It’s a transformation of how your business connects and scales. Done right, your network won't just support your strategy, it will accelerate it.
Proactive Data Systems is not here to sell more boxes. We deliver outcome-driven modernization, across verticals, and at enterprise scale. We’ve done it for automotive, pharma, ITES, and BFSI customers across India. If your WAN is still MPLS-heavy, if your plants still have unmanaged switches, or if your IT team only finds issues after users do, it’s time.
