While companies have spent millions rewriting or migrating software and installing new servers and PCs, they have forgotten about the transport mechanism that moves the data throughout the network. Entex Information Services of Houston has come up with a comprehensive service it calls a Year 2000 Infrastructure Readiness Survey. Once each component is identified, it is checked against a master Year 2000 compliance database. In the analysis phase, Entex prepares a risk assessment report that identifies each network element's risk factor as Pass, Warning or Fail. Pass indicates that, according to the device's manufacturer, it is Year 2000-compliant.
Warning indicates a corrective action or solution is required to make the device compliant.
The final phase includes a report with recommendations on how to fix your Year 2000 problems. Note that the fix may be total replacement of some equipment that cannot be brought into compliance. No mandated industry standard exists. Some vendors are more diligent than others in testing their products for any problems that may result from the millennium date change. Read your vendors' definitions of compliance and how they have done their testing.