If the operations team does their part but the application designers don't, then you have a common situation today - the application gets deployed and the complaints start rolling in about poor network performance. This white paper looks a broader subject, which is how to avoid the guesswork and over-design associated with building a network to support future needs at a time when those needs are still vague. The paper will describe how to use a disciplined continual planning process approach to build an infrastructure that can scale incrementally. The result is the ability to execute network infrastructure changes just before the users notice degradation in performance. The economic power of this approach is huge because the result is a deferred and targeted investment.
Economic leverage is achieved two ways.
Not only the raw value of money over time, but because networking technology is changing so fast you can get much more performance or feature content for the dollar six months from now than you can today.