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Enterprise Network Testing: Testing Throughout the Network Lifecycle to Maximize Availability and Performance
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Enterprise Network Testing: Testing Throughout the Network Lifecycle to Maximize Availability and Performance

by Andy Sholomon, Tom Kunath
April 2011
Intermediate to advanced
504 pages
14h 25m
English
Cisco Press
Content preview from Enterprise Network Testing: Testing Throughout the Network Lifecycle to Maximize Availability and Performance

Chapter 3. Testing and Lab Strategy Development

This chapter covers the following topics:

• Cost Analysis and Resource Planning

• Test Organization Financing Models

• Outsourced Testing

• Test Lab Facilities Design

• Test Lab Operations

Chapter 1, “A Business Case for Enterprise Network Testing,” examined the significant role that an IT infrastructure plays in enabling revenue growth and driving cost efficiencies in a business. In the process of considering this role, we examined the monetary costs of IT service outages to a business, and found that they are often the result of network problems caused by unverified changes or unpredictable behavior during equipment or software failure. Chapter 2, “Testing Throughout the Network Lifecycle,” went ...

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