Top-Down Network Design, Third Edition

Chapter 14. Documenting Your Network Design

This chapter starts by providing advice on responding to a customer’s request for proposal (RFP), and concludes with information on writing a network design document when no RFP exists. The section “Contents of a Network Design Document” provides an outline of a typical design document and specifies the topics that should be included in each part of the document. The section serves as a summary for Top-Down Network Design because it references each of the major steps of the top-down design methodology presented in this book.

At this point in the design process, you should have a comprehensive design that is based on an analysis of your customer’s business and technical goals, and includes both logical ...