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½ Ô structured systems analysis and design
process
Network analysis phase
½ Meeting with users to determine the needs and
applications
½ Estimating data traffic on each part of the network
½ Designing circuits needed to support this traffic and
obtains cost estimates
Implementation phase:
½ Building and implementing the network
½ Takes place a year or two later
½ Works well for static and slowly evolving
networks (although costly and time consuming)
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½ ÿorces making the traditional design approach
less appropriate for many of today¶s networks:
Rapidly changing technology of computers, networking
devices and the circuits
½ More powerful devices, much faster circuits
Rapidly growing network traffic
½ Difficulty of estimating demand and growth
Shorter planning periods (3 years)
Dramatic change in the balance of costs
½ Before: Equipment; now: staff
½ Design goal: Minimize the staff time to operate (not
the hardware costs)
E.g., use similar standardized equipment for the ease
of management
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½ Ô simpler new approach
½ Key concept:
Network that use a few standard components are cheaper
than (in the long run) the networks that use many different
components
½ Start with a few standard components with ample
capacity (without extensive traffic analysis)
Called: narrow and deep (few types of devices, used over
and over)
Result: simpler design process, easily managed network
½ Phases of design
Needs analysis, Technology design, and Cost assessment
Cycles through, refining the outcome of each phase
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Process of
cycling through
all three design
phases is
repeated until a
final design is
decided on.
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½ To understand why the network is being built and
what users and applications it will support
To improve poor performance?
To enable new applications?
To upgrade, replace old equipment? or
To standardize equipment (one type, one protocol, etc)
½ Goals differ depending on the network
LÔN and BN (everything owned by the organization)
½ Design over capacity
Little additional cost after the initial cost
MÔN/WÔN (mostly rely on leased circuits)
½ Design under capacity
Lease additional circuits if necessary
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Dial-up access
½ Purpose
To record problems that must be corrected
and keep track of associated statistics
½ Helpful for reviewing problem patterns on
the network
½ Can be used to identify which network
components are the most problematic
½ Example of a trouble log:
37 calls for software problems, 26 calls for
modems, 49 calls for client computers, 2 calls
for common carriers
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½ Main performance statistics
Number of packets moved on a circuit and
Response time
½ ÿailure statistics
Ôvailability:
½ Percent of time the network available to users
Number of hours per month the network is available
divided by the total of hours in a month (I.e., 720 hours)
Most networks: 99% to 99.5%
Downtime:
½ Percent of time network is not available