Cisco Network Design Solutions for Small-Medium Businesses

Chapter 1. Effective Networking Solution Design Process

Designing a networking solution for a business of any size is an engineering process that's full of creative choices. The choices you make as you negotiate the key steps of the design process ultimately determine the post-deployment success, failure, or mediocrity of your endeavor. They will affect the individual stakeholders and the business as a whole throughout the projected life cycle of the solution, and possibly beyond. Whereas this book focuses on designing specific networking solutions related to security, customer relationship management (CRM), IP Telephony, and other factors, this chapter concentrates on the generic elements of the design process and project management that are ...