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Networking For Future, Inc.

CORPORATE CAPABILITIESNFF is a Technology Solutions provider, specializing in Data Center Virtualization, Unified Communications, and Secured Network Infrastructure. In addition to Network Assessments and Technology Design and Integration, we provide Software and Database Services, and Staff Augmentation. NFF’s proficiency and experience allows our customers to depend on us as a single source for planning, deployment and long-term support of their complex projects.

Corporate Profile• Founded in 1996• Ranked in Inc.’s 500/5000 Fastest Growing Companies list

since 2007• GSA Schedule 70, SEWP Contract Holder• SBA Designated Small Business. NAICS Codes: 334210,

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Technology Partnerships• Cisco/Tandberg/IronPort Gold Partner• Cisco Authorized Technology Provider (By invitation only,

credentials & advanced specialization required):• Data Center Unified Computing• TelePresence Video Express• Identity Services Engine (in process)

• Cisco Reseller: Cisco Products, SMARTnet, ESW, UCSS, Smart Care, Advanced Services

• VMware Enterprise Solutions Provider • NetApp Gold Partner• EMC Velocity Affiliate Partner• Microsoft Cloud Partner• OPNET Authorized Reseller• Symantec Authorized Reseller• RSA Security Authorized Reseller• Trend Micro Authorized Reseller

NFF Composition and Qualifications77% are Engineers; 6 CCIEs/3 Double CCIEs/50+ Cisco Certi-fications. 86% Engineers on Staff Augmentation. Additional industry certification in: VMware, NetApp, EMC, Microsoft, HP OpenView, Oracle, PMI and ITIL.

NFF Performance• 15 Cisco Customer Satisfaction Awards• Rated 90%+ by Cisco’s independent “Discovery Survey”• Ranked in the top 5 IT providers to the Washington, DC

government• Ranked #59 on CRN Magazine’s “Fast Growth 100” list 2011• Ranked in Harvard Business School’s “Top 100 Inner City”

list for the last 3 years

Cisco Advanced Specializations• Unified Communications• Data Center Storage Networking • Data Center Networking Infrastructure• Security with Gold IronPort Certification• Routing and Switching• Wireless LAN

NFF SolutionsNFF’s experienced consulting team brings vertical, horizontaland technology capabilities needed to realize a state of the artNetwork Infrastructure. We provide:

• Data Center Virtualization• Unified Communications• Enterprise Network Infrastructure• Collaboration and Social Networking• Information Security

NFF Core Competencies• Strategic Consulting Services• Staff Augmentation• Service Delivery and Product Sales• Program Management and Enterprise Governance• Network Analysis, Design, and Implementation• Application Development, Software and Database Services

NFF ClientsU.S. Census Bureau; DC Office of the CTO; DC Unified Communi-cations Center; Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Author-ity; Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission; DC Water; National Association of Convenience Stores; Better Business Bureau; DC Metropolitan Police Department; DC Fire, Emergen-cy Medical Services; DC Public Safety Communication Center; DC Department of Motor Vehicles; DC Government Office of Tax & Revenue; DC Office of Cable Television; Office of the DC Audi-tor; DC Department of Health; DC Network Operations Center; CSSI Inc.; SpaceNet; SureScripts; University of the District of Columbia; and The Catholic University of America.

Industry Focus• Federal, State, and Local Government• Education, Health Care, Non-profit• Private Sector, Commercial and Enterprise


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NFF SOLUTIONSDATA CENTER VIRTUALIZATION

We live in a world where people need access to infor-mation instantly, anytime, anywhere, and on any device. These requirements are imperative for all businesses and organizations. The way to improve the efficiency and availability of IT resources and applications, is through virtualization. You can lower your capital and operational costs and improve operational efficiency and flexibility by going beyond server consolidation and deploy a standard virtualization platform to automate your entire IT infrastructure.

Whether you’re an enterprise, SMB, or Government entity, NFF offers appropriate solutions to help you with server, data center, and desktop virtualization. We offer comprehensive virtualization planning, design and implementation support, to help our customers assess their business needs, develop a strategic technol-ogy road map, migrate, and implement a productive virtualization solution. NFF customers have harnessed the power of virtualization to better manage their IT capacity, provide better service levels, and streamline IT processes.

Stateless Computing and the CloudAs companies pick up on cloud computing, stateless computing is likely to emerge as a core tenant within the cloud and one that can deliver cost savings. Cloud services are delivering agility, flexibility, and cost con-trol for companies across the world. Our professional services for Cloud Transformation are geared towards clients who would like to develop a sound IT strategy to support their evolving business needs and transform their IT department into a business enabler. NFF pro-vides the following types of services:

• IT Services to help clients identify Cloud and Virtual Computing solutions that will enhance their busi-ness services.

• Deployment of private, public, or hybrid architec-tures.

Business Impact of Data Center VirtualizationBusiness continuity is a key objective of any organiza-tion, by virtualizing your servers, you not only realize

tremendous cost savings, you will also have a much better architecture for availability and ongoing mainte-nance. At NFF, we work closely with our customers to provide recommendations that make the most of data center virtualization architectures. Key Benefits are:

• Accelerated IT service delivery, improved operation-al efficiency, ensured compliance, and reduced risk

• Profound savings by increasing energy efficiency and less hardware requirements with server consolida-tion

• Business continuity through improved disaster re-covery solutions and high availability throughout the data center

• Centralized management and provisioning

Virtual Infrastructure A virtual infrastructure lets you share your physical resources of multiple machines across your entire infrastructure. The virtual machine shares the resources of a single physical computer across multiple virtual machines for maximum efficiency. Resources are shared across multiple virtual machines and applications.

An automated datacenter built on a virtualization plat-form lets you respond to market dynamics faster and more efficiently than ever before. NFF utilizes market-leading capabilities from VMware to centralize adminis-trative models, improve scalability, optimize workloads, reduce complexity, reduce power consumption, simplify cable infrastructure, minimize the need for rack space in data centers, and provide built-in redundancy. Cus-tomers report dramatic results when they adopt virtual infrastructure solutions.

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NFF SOLUTIONSBenefits of a virtual infrastructure are:

• 60-80% utilization rates for x86 servers (up from 5-15% in non-virtualized PCs)

• Cost savings of more than $3,000 annually for every workload virtualized

• Ability to provision new applications in minutes instead of days or weeks

• 85% improvement in recovery time from unplanned downtime

Virtualization AssessmentNFF’s Virtualization Assessment Services enable cus-tomers to make more efficient use of IT assets that are underutilized, and minimize risks associated with infra-structure changes. Together, NFF and VMware deliver a capacity planning and performance-tuning service to guide you through your IT Consolidation journey. An NFF Virtualization Assessment will:

• Assess your current IT infrastructure• Deliver a plan to optimize IT resources• Minimize risk of infrastructure changes• Develop cost justification for consolidation• Leverage NFF best practices and tools

Virtual Desktop Interface SolutionIf your organization is considering desktop virtualization, or a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), you’ll need to create the IT environment to support it. Moving applica-tions and user data off the desktop requires enterprise-class infrastructure. It’s important that the infrastruc-ture components – compute, network, and storage be optimized in order to maximize your investment.

With NFF’s VDI Solution you will simplify desktop and application management while increasing security and control, and create a personalized high fidelity experi-ence for end-users. This will enable higher availability and agility of desktop services unmatched by traditional PCs while reducing the cost of desktop ownership up to 50%. End-users can enjoy higher levels of productivity and the freedom to access desktops from more devices and locations while allowing greater IT policy control.

Storage virtualizationStorage virtualization helps the storage administrator perform the tasks of backup, archiving, and recovery more easily, and in less time. Virtualization of storage helps achieve location independence by abstracting the physical location of the data. The virtualization system presents to the user a logical space for data storage and handles the process of mapping it to the actual physical location.

Storage virtualization technology provides a fundamen-tally enhanced way to manage storage resources for your virtual infrastructure, giving your organization the ability to:

• Significantly improve storage resource utilization and flexibility.

• Reduce management overhead and increase appli-cation uptime.

• Leverage and compliment existing storage infra-structure.



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NFF SOLUTIONSUNIFIED COMMUNICATIONSUnified communications (UC) is the integration of real-time communication services such as instant messag-ing (chat), presence information, voice, video conferenc-ing, data sharing (including web connected electronic whiteboards), call control and speech recognition with non-real-time communication services such as unified messaging (integrated voicemail, e-mail, SMS and fax). UC is not a single product, but a set of products that provides a consistent unified user interface and user experience across multiple devices and media types.

Real time and presence are the key components of unified communications making business more flexible and secure across any workspace. NFF provides mul-tiple modes of seamlessly integrated communication tools that will enable Instant Voice and Messaging, Web Collaboration, Customer Care, Visual Collaboration, and Business Process Integration.

Instant Voice and MessagingThe next generation of voice systems is integrated and interoperable with all forms of communications and all types of devices, supporting voice, video, and data. NFF incorporates industry leading Cisco solutions to de-sign, deploy, and support Unified Communications (UC). UC is the foundation for business collaboration. Access to UC services can be via private and/or public clouds. One of NFF’s core competencies is providing and inte-grating Cisco Unified Communications into applications such as e-mail, voice mail, and web based collaboration applications, social media applications, video systems, and any other form of communication or tools.

Benefits of Unified Communications versus traditional voice solutions are:

• Ties together: office phones, cell phones, home phones

• Provides access to voice mail, e-mail, and informa-tion services on all devices

• Provides for presence management, find-me/follow-me functions, telephone directories, and least-cost routing

• Utilizes the Cisco network as the platform to deliver common infrastructure services like DNS, DHCP, TFTP

Connect your business and customers with the informa-tion and expertise they need - where, when, and how they need it.

Web CollaborationWeb collaboration has brought together business re-sources in a cost effective manner, enabling teamwork with rich media and video from any browser, from any site. The result is real-time web meetings that allow for integration of instant messaging, video, document shar-ing, and voice into one system.

NFF web meeting applications are delivered over the re-liable, highly secured Cisco WebEx Collaboration Cloud. Take advantage of industry-leading voice, video, and web conferencing capabilities and facilitate compelling, productive, and cost-effective conferencing experiences.

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NFF SOLUTIONSCustomer ServiceTechnology has transformed customer care from simple phone transactions to unique and rich interactions that can be customized to meet the needs of individual cus-tomers. Customer care solutions and products help your business in three critical ways:

• Build competitive advantage by enabling agents to use voice, web, email, and video to provide person-alized, customer-centric services

• Accelerate time-to-resolution with advanced com-munications and reporting capabilities that allow agents to quickly identify and resolve potential problems

• Enhance customer satisfaction by helping customers quickly access agent assistance

NFF Contact Center solutions delivers contact routing, call treatment, network-to-desktop computer telephony integration (CTI), and multichannel contact manage-ment over an IP infrastructure. It combines multichan-nel automatic call distributor (ACD) functionality with IP telephony, enabling your company to rapidly deploy a distributed contact center.

Visual collaborationNFF’s implementation of Cisco’s TelePresence solu-tion will provide immersive HD Video experience that simulates presence of a person on the other side of your conference table. Video conferencing has a positive impact on businesses to perform profitable relationships quickly and efficiently.

Video and telepresence are known to scale knowledge, unify the organization and provide better work/life bal-ance for employees. With Cisco TelePresence, you can:

• Reduce travel costs• Make decisions faster• Transform your business• Be greener

Business Process IntegrationIntegrating all your business applications into one com-munication network enables customers to share infor-mation more fully throughout their organizations. NFF’s Business Process Integration Solution provides the tools

necessary to rapidly integrate applications to optimize business processes. The services help customers to leverage their investment in a Cisco Unified Communica-tions infrastructure as well as the investment made into enterprise applications in the company. More specifi-cally, the Cisco Smart Business Portal helps build the foundation for a more customer-centric organization and helps companies achieve:

• Sales and marketing effectiveness: With 360-degree customer information right at your fingertips, you can better achieve sales and marketing initiatives such as increasing revenue per sales rep, improving lead conversion rates, or decreasing new customer acquisition costs.

• Efficient customer service: Consolidated and timely customer information helps your organization pre-vent or resolve service issues faster.

• Informed management: Enjoy a new level of vis-ibility and insight such as how well customers are being served, and know where and when to target resources.

• Empowered frontline workforce: Improve customer relationships by delivering a single customer view to all customer-facing employees. Employees can be more productive with timely, integrated data, and spend less time tracking down information.



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NFF SOLUTIONSNETWORK INFRASTRUCTUREThe tremendous IP traffic growth is fueled by new media applications and customer demands for more interactivity, personalization, mobility, and video. A well designed Infrastructure Solution lets you deliver person-alized, next-generation services and media experiences anywhere, anytime.

NFF’s Network Services provide organizations with an in-depth look at how well their network is performing and to identify the obstacles, maximizing network perfor-mance. We identify technologies such as security, mobil-ity, data management, and WAN optimization as founda-tional since all other technologies reside on top of and rely upon them to function reliably and efficiently.

WAN OptimizationExpanding organizations are challenged with two im-portant and competing needs: how to optimize their network response time while adopting new business applications and how to reduce costs at the same time.

NFF partners with Cisco to help businesses build and grow their expanded networks with Cisco® Wide Area Application Services (WAAS), a set of cost-effective WAN optimization solutions that accelerate applications over the WAN, provide local hosting of branch-office IT services, optimize end-user experiences, and reduce bandwidth and latency problems.

Infrastructure ServicesNFF caters to its customers’ network infrastructure by laying out an advanced foundation of routing and switching, which follows industry best practices. The routing and switching infrastructure is key to providing the customer with a robust network, which not only provides redundancy and resiliency, but also provides a foundation for advanced technologies like voice and video on the network.

Wireless SolutionsIn today’s fast paced environment, organizations need anywhere and anytime connectivity. They are deploy-ing Wireless LANs, Guest Access, Location Services, and Wireless Voice to increase employee productivity and efficiency, gain a competitive advantage, and provide employees with a new level of freedom and flexibility.

The NFF Mobility Solutions provide the infrastruc-ture that delivers cost-effective wireless networks for business-critical mobility, delivering the same level of security, scalability, and manageability for wireless ap-plications that organizations expect from their wired infrastructure. NFF’s wireless solutions have built-in enterprise-class security that identifies, prevents, and adapts to security threats.

Data Management – Storage SolutionsMany organizations today, only utilize about 70 percent or less of their existing storage capacity. Much of the storage consists of duplicate files, and often times mul-tiple copies. How do you manage your data through the most optimum and cost effective life cycle? Are you cur-rently using legacy storage technology and are consid-ering storage virtualization solutions? Can you recover your applications when you need to? Are you able to complete your back-ups? Where do you start when you want to optimize your investment in storage?

NFF provides essential services and solutions for your data life cycle management initiatives that include stor-age infrastructure, disaster recovery, and data protec-tion. Our independent mindset means we can match the right technology to your business requirements so you can lower the cost of your infrastructure, confidently protect your data, and reduce backup times.



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NFF SOLUTIONSSECURITYAs the number of security incidents continues to rise, organizations face countless challenges in securing their networks, servers, applications and critical data. Ad-vanced technologies allow organizations to implement new applications and features. This technology evolu-tion presents additional vulnerabilities that must be safeguarded.

NFF certified security engineers recognize various security threats that can impact your business and will provide you with the latest and most reliable technolo-gies to best protect your mission critical business assets. We specialize in providing:

• Information Security Risk Assessments • Risk Mitigation Strategies• Independent Verification and Validation (IV&V)• Port Based Network Access Control (802.1X) Solu-

tions• Information Security Architecture Design & Imple-

mentation• Intrusion Protections Solutions • Secure VPN Solutions

Technologies such as collaboration, cloud comput-ing, and web applications promote productivity for an increasingly distributed workforce. You need to employ these technologies and protect your company, while al-lowing the freedom and flexibility that your employees have come to expect.

NFF has developed a standardized process for perform-ing Security by evaluating our customers existing secu-rity policies, procedures and practices and reviewing the effectiveness of their current security mechanisms and controls. NFF performs both internal and external vul-nerability assessment to understand the current security posture of the network and make specific recommenda-tions for their mitigation.

ON-SITE CONSULTING Augment – Supplement – Compliment

NFF is a full life cycle IT Consulting firm, we have a team of Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) from many different IT fields who screen the technical merits of our candidates against the customer’s requirements, before we submit them to our customers. Besides the technical capabili-ties of the consultant we also look into the customer environment and culture, the candidate’s interests and goals, and their communication skills and team player qualities, to determine how well the candidate will fit in with the client’s environment.

NFF believes in integrating business strategies by creat-ing an environment that provides knowledge transfer, continuing education, technical support, and consulting services to expand our customer technology expertise by augmenting, supplementing or complimenting your existing skill set. Our growth revolves around “Deliver-ing Net Results” through the ability to identify emerging shifts in technology, partnering with industry leaders, applying industry best practices and engaging staff with relentless commitment to our clients’ success.

Staff AugmentationStaff Augmentation is a great way to engage highly qualified and specialized personnel on your projects that need additional resources and expertise. Implement-ing this process can bring better efficiency in your work

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NFF SOLUTIONSprojects. Our dedicated services aim at providing you with the best skilled resources in terms of flexibility and timely output. At NFF we offer you a wide and compre-hensive range of world-class professionals with broad industry-specific experience and rich expertise. From dedicated developers and project managers to Cisco certified network engineers, you can greatly benefit from our on-site staff augmentation services. We understand that quality productivity is the only key for the continued and long lasting relationship and we have a state-of-the-art infrastructure and processes to adhere to this commitment of delivering quality and ensuring business continuity. Benefits of NFF Staff Aug-mentation:

• Pick your experts Our team is a perfect blend of expertise and skills. So, you can choose from our large pool of experts who specialize in Unified Communications, Data Center Virtualization, Network Infrastructure, Ap-plication and Database Development and Project Management.

•Account Management A dedicated account manager will be responsible for on-site staff management of staff employees to ensure a continued successful relationship between our employee and you. This direct involvement of our account managers will lead to improved work ef-ficiency and timely completion of the projects.

•Client communications NFF account management will maintain ongoing communications with you to ensure your satisfac-tion with our consultants and the overall contract management. Our approach is to develop a true partnership with you, which enables us to keep the communication process a simple and time-saving exercise.

•Bench Strength The prerequisite for successful service delivery demands development of a Bench Strength strategy that offers a step-by-step approach to building and maintaining a powerful talent team that will ensure perpetual availability of IT skill-sets during project surges and staffing backfill requirements. Our bench strength will be available to you through the life cycle of your projects.

Staffing Methodology

NFF’s Staff Augmentation Mission is “To provide the highest caliber of professionals that will best fit our cli-ents’ needs and integrate seamlessly into their environ-ment.” To do this, NFF employs industry best practice methodology incorporating:

• 4 Step Interview process to ensure a perfect match against Client requirements

• Ongoing resource management support• Full access to internal NFF Subject Matter Experts

and vendor resources• Provide access to and encourage continuous educa-

tion and training to expand and develop new skills• Industry leading recruiting software applications and

workflows

Who’s screening your candidates? NFF versus a tradi-tional staffing firm.

Since NFF is a full life cycle Technology Consulting firm, we have Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) from many different IT fields at our disposal for screening the technical merits of our candidates before we propose them to our customers. In a traditional Staffing firm, candidates are screened by recruiters who have no real world technical expertise or experience. NFF’s approach saves hiring managers’ valuable time by screening our candidates with IT subject matter experts (SME) in the specific technology our clients have.



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NFF SOLUTIONSTechnologiesOur vision is to keep all key areas of an IT organization moving in the same direction and towards a common goal. Our professional services are focused on assess-ment, design, integration, optimization, and support of leading edge, high-performance data network solutions. NFF specializes in Cisco, VMware, EMC, NetApp, Micro-soft, Application Development and Database Technolo-gies.

NFF is a proud Cisco Gold Partner with 15 prestigious Cisco “Customer Satisfaction Excellence” Awards. We are certified in Cisco’s: Advanced Unified Communi-cations, Advanced Security, Advanced Wireless LAN, Advanced Data Center Networking Infrastructure, and Advanced Routing and Switching Programs. Our staff holds prestigious industry certifications such as, Cisco CCIE, VMware, HP, Oracle, NetApp, EMC, Microsoft MCSE, and PMP.

Success StoriesNFF’s responsiveness and commitment to excellence is exemplified by our success in enhancing our client’s productivity and efficiency. Our methodical approach to project management which is overseen by our Program Management Office has ensured properly defined, documented and cost effective solutions to all of our clients.

Our clients’ success is the reason we exist and the foun-dation on which we base every solution and service. It’s why we relentlessly pursue the highest levels of customer service and satisfaction in every project. Our solutions drive value through their simplicity, flexibility and quality.

Having worked on a diverse sum of projects, NFF has gained unmatched business and technological expertise. With our vast knowledge base of service delivery and proven best practices methodology, our solutions meet our customers’ needs, expectations, and budget.

NFF has over 15 years’ experience in providing Network Solutions for clients across the country. We have suc-cessfully completed a multitude of projects of different sizes and complexity in diverse business and technology

domains. Capitalizing on the accumulated experience of NFF provides full-cycle services ranging from planning, design, deployment and long-term support of complex projects.

Our rich business network’s experience enables us to speak the same language with customers and under-stand their business requirements easily. Our knowledge stretches from application design, development and integration to operating key processes. This knowledge base and experience helps us save clients’ precious time and deliver the optimum solutions.

Our unique competence in various technologies enables us to deliver integrated, scalable, robust solutions with the optimal cost/performance ratio. Our partnerships with companies such as Cisco, VMware, Microsoft, EMC, NetApp and OPNET provide us with the latest insights on new technology and products to meet the ever-growing customer’s needs.

It’s simple – we understand that our success is mea-sured by the success of our clients.



WHY NFF?With many Network Solutions Providers to choose from, we would like to share a few reasons why our customers have chosen NFF. It demonstrates NFF’s strengths that distinguish us among our competitors.

Experience and ExpertiseHaving worked on a diverse array of projects, NFF has gained unmatched business and technological expertise. With our vast knowledge base of service delivery and proven best practices methodology, our solutions meet our customers’ needs, expectations, and budget.

Business ExperienceNFF has over 15 years’ experience in providing Network Solutions for clients across the country. We have suc-cessfully completed a multitude of projects of different sizes and complexity in diverse business and technology domains. Capitalizing on the accumulated experience of NFF provides full-cycle services ranging from planning, design, deployment and long-term support of complex projects.

Network ExpertiseOur rich business network experience enables us to speak the same language with customers and under-stand their business requirements easily. Our knowledge stretches from application design, development and integration to operating key processes. This knowledge base and experience helps us save clients’ precious time and deliver the optimum solutions.

Technology CompetenceOur unique competence in various technologies enables us to deliver integrated, scalable, robust solutions with the optimal cost/performance ratio. Our partnerships with companies such as Cisco, VMware, Microsoft, EMC, NetApp and OPNET provide us with the latest insights on new technology and products to meet our ever-growing customers’ needs.

Commitment to QualityWhile retaining competitive rates, we never compro-mise the quality of our services. A dedicated quality as-surance team monitors project activities at all develop-ment phases and guarantees defect prevention, project risk mitigation, and high quality results.

Personnel QualityThe quality of our people makes us stand out. We hire and retain only the best professionals. At NFF we’ve set up a thorough personnel selection process and a stimulating environment to grow and improve our large resource pool of Subject Matter Experts (SMEs).

Process QualityNFF follows a proven development methodology on ev-ery project we undertake. We adhere to the best indus-try standards and practices such as ITIL, NIST, ISO and PMBOK. These standards and NFF’s experience guar-antee outstanding results and allow us to better serve clients with regard to cost, quality, and time frames.

Customer-Focused ApproachNFF is a client-centric organization. We make it our busi-ness to understand and help our clients achieve their business goals.

Personal ApproachWe thoroughly study each customer’s case. Depending on project requirements we engage a dedicated team of business and technical analysts to evaluate and under-stand clients’ specific objectives and needs to architect the solutions that meet their requirements.

Easy CommunicationEffective communication is crucial for success of any project. We establish a productive and proactive cus-tomer communication environment providing all the required resources. Besides a professional, personal, real-time dialogue, we use the latest unified communi-cation collaboration tools when needed.

Delivering Business ValueDelivering exceptional business value to clients is the primary goal at NFF. This requires more than just focus-ing on the network development process. This way we can offer our clients technology solutions that add real value to their business.

It’s simple – we understand that our success is mea-sured by the success of our clients.



PARTNERSHIPS AND ALLIANCESNFF believes that our partners play a critical role in the success of our customers. NFF partners with many of the world’s leading technology solution providers to enable us to deliver best-in-breed data center, data stor-age, network and security solutions to our customers. NFF is an authorized solution and services partner with the following companies:

• Cisco/Tandberg/IronPort Gold Partner• Cisco Authorized Technology Provider (By invita-

tion only, credentials & advanced specialization required):• Data Center Unified Computing• TelePresence Video Express• Identity Services Engine (in process)

• Cisco Reseller: Cisco Products, SMARTnet, ESW, UCSS, Smart Care, Advanced Services

• VMware Enterprise Solutions Provider • NetApp Gold Partner• EMC Velocity Affiliate Partner• Microsoft Cloud Partner• OPNET Authorized Reseller• Symantec Authorized Reseller• RSA Security Authorized Reseller• Trend Micro Authorized Reseller

NFF has formed long time alliances and maintains strong working relationships with our strategic partners. To-gether with them we will take your business to the next level of success and deliver value to your bottom line. Some of our strategic partners include:



COMPANY OVERVIEWNFF is a Technology Solutions provider, specializing in Data Center Virtualization, Unified Communications, and Secured Network Infrastructure. NFF’s proficiency and experience allow our customers to depend on us as a single source for planning, deployment and long-term support of their complex projects.

SolutionsNFF offers a wide range of solutions to help you build a more resilient, adaptive, and intelligent network. In ad-dition to Network Assessments and Technology Design and Integration, we provide Software and Database Services, and Staff Augmentation. Regardless of the size and type of your business, NFF can help you meet your needs for today as well as prepare you for the future.

ClientsNFF’s clients are prominent firms and important organi-zations, such as the US Census Bureau, Better Business Bureau; DC Department of Motor Vehicles; DC Govern-ment Office of Tax & Revenue; Prince William Hospital; DC Department of Health; DC Network Operations Center; CSSI Inc.; SpaceNet; University of the District of Columbia; Shakespeare Theatre Company, and The Cath-olic University of America. We hold strategic partner-ships with some of the world’s leading IT Manufacturers, System Integrators, and Solution Providers to provide the best quality products and services to our clients.

PartnersNFF’s growth is foremost organically fueled by repeat business and long-term partnerships with key clients who recommend our work. NFF is an awarded Cisco Gold Partner, a VWware Enterprise, NetApp Gold, EMC Velocity, and Microsoft Cloud Provider Partner. NFF is a Small Business, and we hold a GSA Schedule contract to service our Government clients.

IndustriesFrom Presidential Inauguration Network Design to a Citywide Backbone, Nationwide IP based Video Tele-Conferencing Implementation and Emergency Network Infrastructure Management Design, NFF is building what’s next. We have been successfully involved in proj-ects in the following industries:

• Federal, State, and Local Government• Education, Health Care, Non-profit• Private Sector, Commercial and Enterprise

MethodologySince 1996, NFF has successfully paired winning part-nerships with proven methodologies in responding to required business and technology changes. Our services are delivered in a focused and methodical style which is overseen by our Program Management Office. Our 4 A’s Methodology; Align | Architect | Apply | Augment is the key to reliable, on-target and on-time results.

Qualifications77% are Engineers; 6 CCIEs/3 Double CCIEs/50+ Cisco Certifications. 86% Engineers on Staff Augmentation. Additional industry certification in: VMware, NetApp, EMC, Microsoft, HP OpenView, Oracle, PMI and ITIL.

Recognition• 15 Cisco Customer Satisfaction Awards• Rated 90%+ by Cisco’s independent “Discovery

Survey”• Ranked in the top 5 IT providers to the Washington,

DC government• Ranked #59 on CRN Magazine’s “Fast Growth 100”

list 2011• Ranked in Harvard Business School’s “Top 100 Inner

City” list for the last 3 years



CLIENT SUCCESSESNFF is a client-centric organization. We make it our business to understand and help our clients to achieve their business goals. Our clients’ success is the reason we exist and the foundation on which we base every solution and service. It’s why we relentlessly pursue the highest levels of customer service and satisfaction in every project. Our solutions drive value through their simplicity, flexibility and quality. Here’s a short overview of some of our clients:

DATA CENTER VIRTUALIZATION

• DC Government – As part of DC Government’s city-wide “Data Center” consolidation project, NFF assisted the District in the architecture of a resilient data center model that incorporated Cisco unified fabric data center switching and servers. The project involved two full time CCIEs that considered Storage, Virtualization, Redundancy, Disaster Recovery and Performance of critical applications amongst other factors in their design.

• District of Columbia Primary Care Association – EMC Clariion SAN upgrade, thorough network assessment and gap analysis for all 5 clinic locations, and a Net-work Infrastructure re-Design and Implementation (Firewalls, Routers, Switches).

• Rosenthal Automotive – Design to improve effi-ciency and reduce 25 physical servers to 4 with full redundancy and automatic failover capabilities. Our solution was designed around virtual platforms with Cisco C- series rack-mount Servers, VMware Enter-prise licensing, and Nexus Switching fabric, which allowed for a 10-gig backplane for the core infra-structure.

• Spacenet – SAN Zoning Design, Implementation and Operational Support Using Cisco MDS 9000 Switch-es. Specified appropriate Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) and VMware solutions and configured International Video Teleconferencing using Tandberg equipment.

• Office of the District of Columbia Auditor – NFF provided a solution to consolidate DC Auditor’s server farm to two physical host servers with one VLAN for VMware Vsphere Management, one VLAN for VMotion and one VLAN for the existing ISCSI SAN integration.

UNIFIED COMMUNICATIONS

• Better Business Bureau – NFF engineered a full network/UC solution consisting of Cisco Call Man-ager, Presence, Unity Connection, Emergency Responder and Contact Centers. NFF’s solution put the Arlington HQ and NY offices on a centrally man-aged network and met the challenge of integrating remote users into call flows and connecting agents to contact center queues.

• Washington Metropolitan Police – Design, Procure-ment, Implementation, Training, and on-going sup-port of a Cisco Unified Communications Manager Phone System. The Customer Resource Call Center services all 5,000 MPD employees. Through a sepa-rate contract, NFF has been providing day-to-day operational support of MPD’s critical applications, servers and desktops since 2006.

• Shakespeare Theatre Company – NFF moved Shake-speare from a PBX environment to a Cisco UC en-vironment consisting of 5 total servers hosting Call Manager, Unity Connection, and Contact Center for over 125 users.

• Rosenthal Automotive – Cisco UC solution with Cisco Call Managers and Unity Connection for phone and voicemail capabilities.

• National Association of Convenience Stores (NACS) Provided a Cisco Advanced Unified Communica-tions solution, including Unified Communications Manager, Unity Connection, Mobile Communicator, and Unified Presence to achieve the NACS vision of growth for over 100 users.



CLIENT SUCCESSES• Magnolia Plumbing – NFF configured and installed a

VPLS (Virtual Private LAN Service) network, call man-ager, and contact center for 85 users. The contact center consisted of 11 supervisor and agent seats as well as 5 scripts to service the plumbing, waste management, HVAC, construction, and customer service departments.

• Glover Park Group (GPG) – For this leading strategic communications firm, NFF provided a Unified Com-munications solution, which included the installa-tion and configuration of Cisco switches, a Cisco UC manager, a Cisco voice gateway router, a Cisco uni-fied presence server, and Cisco 7975 IP phones for 165 users. NFF also integrated the communication manager with Microsoft Exchange 2007 using Cisco Unity voice-mail design.

NETWORK INFRASTRUCTURE

• Census Bureau –NFF has been architecting, imple-menting and supporting critical enterprise solutions for the US Census Bureau. Functional areas include: Agency Wide Information Security architecture utilizing Cisco and IronPort solutions, Agency Wide Video Tele-Conferencing (VTC) design and imple-mentation utilizing Tandberg solutions, and Server Operations (Microsoft, Linux, VMware) Operational Support.

• DC Government – Designed, configured, and in-stalled a Cisco Wireless LAN solution that allows the customer to provide secure wireless network for DC Government employees and contractors, internet access to visitors, monitor their network for rogue wireless devices which could potentially compro-mise their network, track those devices real time and centrally manage their entire wireless infra-structure.

• University of the District of Columbia – Imple-mented a Cisco Security Monitoring, Analysis and Response (MARS) solution. The project involved analysis and incorporations of UDC’s firewalls, rout-ers, switches and IPS devices to the MARS appli-ance. NFF also provided training for UDC’s IT staff. Through a separate contract, NFF completed Design, Procurement, and Implementation of a Secured Wireless solution for deployment at the Patricia

Roberts Harris Educational Center as part of the Workforce Development Program.

• DC Water – NFF has been awarded several con-tracts since year 2000 to assess, design, implement, project-manage, and support a Cisco based secured network infrastructure that spans DC Water’s Cam-pus LAN and WAN. In addition, NFF has been provid-ing server and critical applications support as well as help desk management services.

• Catholic University of America – NFF deployed a Cis-co Application Control Engine to help the university ensure business continuity, accelerate application and server performance, and reduce data center power, space, and cooling needs.

• Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission – Multi-year contract for the architecture and implemen-tation of network communications at WSSC (the seventh largest water and wastewater utility in the United States). Responsibilities include administra-tion, engineering, architecture, project manage-ment, documentation, monitoring and trouble-shooting of WSSC’s network infrastructure. NFF implemented a modern network architecture to support complex network solutions in support of their business to business unified communications requirements. Specific tasks include deployment of Cisco’s IDS/IPS, Cisco’s Virtual Switching Systems, Staging of Cisco’s Call Manager, Unity and IPCC solu-tions as well as upgrade of HP OpenView network management platform.



• SureScripts – The Nation’s largest E-prescription network, specializing in online prescription ordering. The implementation of Cisco NAC and Wireless LAN Controller systems helped them mitigating virus and malware-based security threats by monitoring the security protection on endpoint devices and enforc-ing security policies.

• The Phillips Collection – At the Phillips Collection, America’s first museum of modern art, NFF de-ployed a Cisco Advanced Wireless solution across their entire network.

INFORMATION SECURITY

• Metropolitan Police Department (DC MPD) – NFF Engineers implemented MPD’s secure communica-tion link to the US Secret Service’s Multi-Agency Coordination Center (MACC) in Herndon, VA in support of the 55th Presidential Inauguration. These separate data paths were used to transport stream-ing video feeds from both MPD and from DC Gov-ernment’s Wireless Accelerated Responder Network (WARN), Naval Research Lab (NRL) and Department of Homeland Security (DHS). MPD and the Secret Service were able to monitor Inaugural activities from the ground with fixed cameras and roving vehi-cles, and in the air from helicopters provided by the US Capitol and US Park Police. Due to NFF’s efforts and technical design, as well as the unique collabo-ration between the District and Federal government, the 55th Presidential Inauguration took place under the most technologically advanced security umbrella in U.S. Inaugural history.

• Census Bureau –NFF has been architecting, imple-menting and supporting critical enterprise solutions for the US Census Bureau. Functional areas include: Agency Wide Information Security architecture utilizing Cisco and IronPort solutions, Agency Wide Video Tele-Conferencing (VTC) design and imple-mentation utilizing Tandberg solutions, and Server Operations (Microsoft, Linux, VMware) Operational Support.

• CSSI Inc. – NFF incorporated their four sites located in DC, Maryland, and New Jersey using a centrally managed unified communications network. NFF proposed a Network Infrastructure Optimization

CLIENT SUCCESSES

and Security as well as a Unified Communication Project. CSSI Inc. also expressed the importance of needing redundant security across all four sites. In addition to the Network Infrastructure optimization and security deployments, CSSI Inc employed NFF to design a new Unified Communication solution for two out of the four sites. NFF provided a highly se-cure and optimal infrastructure to CSSI Inc. to keep up with its growing contract base so each of CSSI’s clients can be certain that they are in good hands from the ground up.

• SureScripts – The Nation’s E-prescription network, specializing in online prescription ordering. The implementation of Cisco NAC and Wireless LAN Controller systems helped them mitigating virus and malware-based security threats by monitoring the security protection on endpoint devices and enforc-ing security policies.

ON-SITE CONSULTING

• US Census Bureau – Enterprise Security and Net-work Infrastructure Architecture, Design and Imple-mentation.

• DC Office of Tax & Revenue (OTR) – Data Ware-house, Integrated Data Capture, Individual Income Tax, Business Tax, and Real Property Tax Systems Application Design and Support.

• Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) – IT Security Compliance Program Devel-opment, Continuity of Operations, Disaster Recov-



CLIENT SUCCESSESery, Certification and Accreditation, ITIL Process Development and Compliance.

• DC of the CFO – Network and Security Architecture, Server/Active Directory Migration design and imple-mentation.

• US Census Bureau – Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) Oracle development.

• Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission (WSSC) – Administration, Engineering, Architecture, Proj-ect Management, Documentation, Monitoring and Troubleshooting of WSSC’s Network Infrastructure.

• DC Office of the CTO – Enterprise and Security Archi-tecture, Gap Analysis and Development.

• District of Columbia Government-DCWAN – Full scale design, implementation, performance analysis, capacity planning, prototyping, testing and docu-mentation.

• DC Network Operations Centers (NOCs) – Technical Project Management, Management Systems Design, Implementation and Operation.

• District of Columbia Government-City Wide Informa-tion Technology Security Services – Network Vulner-ability Assessment and Scanning, Risk Mitigation, Antivirus and IDS Deployment as well as SOC Opera-tions.

• DC Police Department – Network Infrastructure, Call Center, Server/Helpdesk Operations Support and Implementation.

• US Census Bureau – Nationwide Video Tele-Confer-encing (VTC) design and implementation.

• District of Columbia Government-DCNET – Network design and implementation.

• US Census Bureau – Server Operations Technical Support.

• DC Office of the CTO – City-wide Configuration Management, Change Management and Disaster Recovery.

• DC Water Authority – Network design, implementa-tion and Helpdesk support.

• DC Office of Cable Television – Project Management, Concept design, methodology and project rollout in support of the National League of Cities TV.