IT & Networking
The main components of the methodology include:
Identifying the customer’s information technology needs and objectives
- Analyzing business objectives and constraints affecting network design
- Analyzing business objectives
- Identifying the scope of the network design project Identifying the customer’s network applications Analyzing business constraints
- Analyzing budget and staffing constraints
Analyzing technical objectives and trade-offs
- Scalability and expansion planning
- Analyzing scalability constraints
- System availability and disaster recovery analysis
- Specifying availability requirements
- Network performance analysis
- Network security analysis
- Network manageability analysis
- Network usability analysis
- Network adaptability analysis
Network affordability analysis
Logical network design
- Network topology design
- Hierarchical network design
- Modular network design
Secure network topology design - Addressing and numbering model design Addressing mapping using hierarchical models Naming the model design
Switching and Routing protocol
- Developing a network security strategy
- Network security design
- Security mechanism selection
- Modularizing security design
- Developing a network management strategy
- Network management design
- Network management architecture selection
- Network management tools and protocol selection
Physical network design Technology and hardware selection
- LAN cabling design
- Hardware specification and selection
- Software specification and selection
- WAN design
- Remote user device selection Central site device selection
- Router selection
- WAN/ISP service provider selection.
