We start with the problem, not the product.
Before anything gets designed, we want to understand what you’re trying to accomplish, what you already own, where the gaps actually are, and what the environment needs to look like three to five years out. Then we design around that.
We don’t start with a preferred manufacturer and work backward, either. We work across multiple leading manufacturers because no single vendor is best at everything — Cisco may be right in one part of an environment, Palo Alto or Fortinet somewhere else, Arista in another, Microsoft or AWS somewhere else entirely.
Sometimes the right answer is a significant refresh. Sometimes it’s keeping what you have and fixing the architecture around it. The goal is to become an extension of your technology team, not another vendor you have to manage.