Fundamentals of Communications and Networking, 3rd Edition

Defining Your Organization’s Networking Requirements

Each organization should explore its communication needs and determine the network infrastructure components required to support those needs. Although all organizations share some requirements, such as providing a backup strategy for critical infrastructure components, the implementation of solutions differs among organizations. After determining how your organization plans to support communication with its personnel, customers, and partners, you can decide on the networking requirements to support your plans. Here are some important areas you need to consider:

• High availability—Do you know what business functions are critical to your organization’s ability to stay in business? Some processes ...