• Focus on Five Dimensions of Network Design to Improve Performance and Save Money
• Andrew Lerner | Mark Fabbi | Timothy Zimmerman | Kathy Harris
• 28 March 2013
• Traditional network design practices do not adequately support the modern user. These design practices need to move beyond connecting the dots and sizing bandwidth. This research provides a framework for network personnel to improve user experience and reduce expenditures by 30%.

• Traditional network design practices focusing primarily on location and bandwidth no longer address current IT service delivery models.
• Network designs must account for proliferating IT consumerization, including mobility, software as a service (SaaS) and bring your own device (BYOD).

• To optimally serve the business, network architects need to shift their thinking from technology to users and business processes.
• As part of a cross-functional team, network architects must become an integral part of application life cycle activities.

• Introduction
  Network architects must expand their thinking to include individual users, devices and application requirements early in the network design process. Enterprises that adapt their design practices to this approach will build better networks while optimizing their spending on business-critical technologies.
  
  Traditional network design practices focused almost entirely on sizing bandwidth and ensuring connectivity to users and locations. This inevitably led many companies to throw bandwidth at the problem in the form of higher classes of services on their Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) networks, which often meant overinvesting in capacity with minimal improvement to application performance. Although it is still necessary to perform these functions, the job of a network architect no longer starts or ends there.

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