Network inventory sheet

Designing and building a network that meets your organization's needs isn't a trivial exercise. Today's wide array of technology options means you have many decisions to make. Should you deploy wireless technology in an enterprise network? What firewalls can or should you install? What about network inventory sheet? WAN options? IP addressing? Should you deploy hardware-based or software-based solutions? Obviously, trying to design anything but the smallest network can be daunting. Fortunately, many established best practices can help guide you through the process and help you determine the right mix of technologies and design that will meet your organization's IT goals. Let me start by laying the foundation for any good network-design discussion, then I'll discuss some network-design best practices.