Understanding Technical Goals

To design a network,

you have to understand its technical goals. Very often it is not possible to meet all goals at the same time because of their conflicting features and requirements. Therefore, you need to understand the nature of each goal and make necessary tradeoffs to address your customers’ requirements. A network designer tries to achieve as many technical goals as possible. Within an organization’s overall technical goals for its network, there are elements that may have a higher business priority than others. Review the goals outlined in Chapter 2 of your reading for this week (scalability, availability, network performance, security, manageability, usability, adaptability, and affordability). Then, identify a business case of your choosing that requires the support of a network. This could be a scenario you’ve experienced in your professional life or one that you’ve read about in your resources or other research. In your post, consider the following:

• Briefly describe the network support requirements for your business case.
• Which two of the eight goals listed above are the most important in your scenario? Why?
• Which is the least important? Why?
• What are the most likely constraints in achieving your most important goals? What tradeoffs should you be prepared to make in order to achieve those goals?

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