SYSTEMATIC WIDE AREA NETWORK PLANNING
Hakan Butuner · 2015
For businesses with multiple locations, remote or home users, or integrated communications with specific vendors or partners, the WAN (Wide Area Network) is the lifeblood. IT organizations face pressure to increase WAN productivity, improve application performance, support global collaboration, improve data protection, and minimize costs. Integrating today's effective wide area networks beyond traditional capabilities while improving performance and minimizing costs are very crucial. The main purpose of a WAN is to provide reliable, fast and safe communication between two or more places (nodes) at affordable prices. WANs enable an organization to have a single network connecting all of its departments and offices, even if they are not all in the same building, city or even continent. In the increasingly globalized marketplace, WANs have become an integral element of many businesses ’ networks. Our aim in this systematic methodology is providing planning tools for network engineers. This paper outlines a systematic methodology for enterprise WAN design.