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cable when you’re initially wiring your building, but it will cost significantly more if youfind you need to rip out the cabling and redo it later.In planning for network growth, you should again consult with your users, especiallythose in strategic planning and decision-making capacities. Although no one can accuratelypredict what will or will not happen to a company over months and years, these decision-makers will be able to give you some idea of the overall vision of the company. Are theyhoping to expand dramatically through mergers and acquisitions? Or are they satisfied withtheir specific market niche and anticipate adding personnel and equipment in only smallerincrements as production increases?Finally, when considering desktop computers, laptops, and servers, keep in mind thatmost current hardware will come with a one- to three-year warranty, sometimes with anoption to purchase an extended warranty at the time that you buy the equipment. It’s notnecessarily true that your computer hardware will immediately break down the day afterthe warranty expires; however, the length of your warranty and/or service contract shouldfactor into your projections regarding how often you plan to replace your equipment. Forthis reason, many organizations adopt a three- to four-year replacement cycle, budgetingsufficient funds to replace one-third or one-quarter of the installed computer base everyyear, or setting aside money to replace all of the equipment en masse when it reaches theend of its warranty cycle.

Developing a Test Network Environment

When implementing a new network or computer solution, you should perform a thoroughbattery of testing before deploying it into production.You’ll begin the test process in anisolated lab where new technologies will have no chance of adversely affecting the existingcomputing environment. After you are satisfied with the new technology’s performance inthe test lab, you can expand testing into a pilot deployment involving a few actual users,analyzing their input and reactions to make any necessary adjustments to your design. Onlyafter you are satisfied with the pilot deployment should you perform a full-scale deploy-ment in your production environment.

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IPDepending on the total number of users you have, you might want to split yourfull-scale deployment schedule into stages. After each stage, you can verify thatyour system is accommodating the increased processing load from the additionalusers as expected before you begin deploying the next group of users.The success of any network deployment depends heavily on your ability to develop aneffective test environment.This test lab can consist of a single lab or several labs, each ofwhich can test various pieces of the overall design without risking the integrity of yourproduction environment.Working in the test lab will allow you to verify the effectivenesshttps://traloihay.net