Turns business and technical needs into a proposed network architecture and its complete technical documentation: design principles, topology, equipment choices, IP addressing and VLAN plans, routing, WAN, Wi-Fi, security, redundancy and design risks. The subnet figures are calculated, not estimated.
Contents
1. Project Overview
2. Business and Technical Requirements
3. Architecture Design Principles
4. Proposed Network Architecture
5. Network Topology Design
6. Network Components and Equipment Selection
7. IP Addressing and Subnetting Plan
8. VLAN and Network Segmentation Design
9. Routing and Switching Architecture
10. WAN and Site Connectivity Design
11. Wireless Network Design
12. Network Services Architecture
13. Network Security Architecture
14. Firewall and Access Control Design
15. Redundancy and High Availability Design
16. Performance and Scalability Considerations
17. Implementation Considerations
18. Technical Dependencies and Constraints
19. Design Risks and Recommendations
20. Architecture Diagrams
21. Glossary and Technical References
What you provide
Deliverable — Its title, its author and its structure are yours: they steer what is written.
Company and project — What this network is for.
Business needs — Who uses the network, and for what.
Network wanted — The infrastructure and its equipment.
IP addressing and segmentation — The subnets proposed are calculated and checked from this.
Connectivity — How sites and users connect.
Security — What the network must enforce.
Availability and constraints — What the design must withstand.
