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Network Audits
Assess Cisco and Meraki networks across the UK, including London and Kent. Identify resilience, configuration and security issues with clear priorities.
Devices supported
across the UK
Client locations
supported
Traffic handled
at peak time
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response time
Average response is not a resolution time or a contractual guarantee. Support scope and response commitments are agreed for each engagement.
Network audits establish what you have, how it is configured and which issues deserve attention. MCI reviews Cisco and Meraki environments to give you a clearer basis for support, investment or a forthcoming change. The useful result is a prioritised account of the estate, not a long export of device settings with no explanation of their significance.
An audit can be broad or tightly focused. You may need to recover an inventory, assess configuration consistency, investigate performance or understand resilience. We define the question first so the evidence collected is relevant to the decision you need to make.
A clear requirement
Turn the business need into a practical network scope with visible dependencies.
A controlled delivery
Plan implementation, testing and rollback before production changes begin.
A supportable result
Leave useful records, ownership and escalation routes behind.
Choose the audit that matches the concern
An unfamiliar estate often needs discovery and inventory before more detailed conclusions can be drawn. Where equipment is known but operating standards are inconsistent, a configuration audit is more appropriate.
Performance and resilience are different subjects. A network may be fast in ordinary use but recover poorly from a failure, or have a sound recovery design while suffering from a particular application-path problem. Keeping those assessments distinct makes the recommendations more useful.
Licensing, support and documentation can also be reviewed. These may not change how a packet is forwarded today, but they can materially affect the ability to maintain, renew or hand over the environment.
Standards & partnerships
Confidence in the team behind your network.
Cisco Partner
Cisco Meraki
Cyber Essentials
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Establish evidence and access boundaries
We agree the sites, devices, services and information sources in scope. Authorised access is arranged with the appropriate owner, and the method is selected to avoid unnecessary disruption. Disruptive tests are not assumed to be part of a routine audit.
The available evidence may include configurations, management data, diagrams, incident records and interviews with the people who operate the network. We distinguish directly observed facts from information supplied by others and from conclusions that still require verification.
That distinction is important when records are incomplete. A report should not create false confidence by presenting an assumed topology as a discovered one or an untested backup path as proven resilience.
A useful starting point
Not sure where to start?
Bring the requirement. We will help you define the engineering work.
Assess the network in its business context
A finding matters because of its effect on a service or an operating requirement. We relate technical observations to application access, change risk, supportability and the consequences of failure.
For Cisco and Meraki networks, the assessment accounts for the relevant platform and management model. A configuration choice may be valid in one design and inappropriate in another. We do not treat every difference from a preferred standard as a defect without understanding its purpose.
The same applies to retained third-party equipment. An audit can examine its relationship with the Cisco and Meraki estate while making the scope and limits of the review clear.
Different environments. The same care.
Built around the work
your network supports.
Finance, banking and the wider private sector. We start with the systems and people that depend on your connections.
Finance & banking
Market-data paths, routing and provider coordination on clients’ behalf.
Financial-market services ↗Offices & multi-site teams
Reliable access between people, workplaces and business applications.
Office network design ↗Data centres & cloud
Network boundaries, workload connections and operational ownership.
Data centre networks ↗Separate urgent findings from worthwhile improvements
The report prioritises issues according to the evidence and their significance. Confirmed service risks, missing information and optional improvements should not be mixed together in an undifferentiated list.
Recommendations explain the action, the reason and any dependency that affects its implementation. A configuration change may need a maintenance window; a lifecycle concern may need a procurement decision; a physical-path question may require provider confirmation.
Where the cause of a problem is not established, the next step may be further investigation rather than immediate remediation. The audit should narrow uncertainty, not turn every observation into a replacement recommendation.
Use the findings to plan controlled improvements
An audit is not automatically permission to change the network. Findings are reviewed with the owner, and approved actions can be developed into a remediation or design scope. This keeps the evidence-gathering exercise separate from the risks of implementation.
A technology roadmap can place larger recommendations alongside business plans and lifecycle work. Smaller actions can be scheduled through the normal change process, with tests that establish whether they addressed the finding.
MCI provides network audits throughout the UK, with a particular focus on London, Kent, Sussex, Essex and Berkshire. The balance of remote review and site attendance depends on the evidence required; physical conditions cannot always be established from dashboard access alone.
Network audit questions
Will an audit certify that we are compliant?
No. A network audit can provide useful evidence and identify control weaknesses, but it does not by itself establish conformity with a regulation or certification standard. Any formal assessment needs the appropriate scope, criteria and authorised assessor.
Can you review an estate managed by another provider?
Yes, with the customer’s authority and suitable access. We establish the existing service boundaries and assess the evidence objectively. The purpose is to identify the network’s position, not to assume that another provider’s design is wrong.
Do you change settings during the audit?
Not unless that activity is separately authorised within the scope. The default distinction is between collecting evidence and implementing a change. Any proposed test or adjustment that could affect service needs an understood method and approval.
What should we prepare?
Existing diagrams, an equipment list and a short description of the concern are useful, but gaps are expected in some engagements. Arrange a network audit so the assessment can focus on the evidence and decisions that matter most.
Talk to a specialist
What does your network need next?
Tell us what you are planning, changing or trying to improve. We will help define a practical next step and the engineering scope.
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