Information Technology Solutions
Assessing the applications usage requirements is a good place to start as this will help determine how the network is going to be used. A network is only as good as the work it helps people to accomplish, and people work most directly using application software.
Most networks have common applications, department specific, or user specific applications. Many organisations meet the common applications requirements through a suite of desktop office tools such as Microsoft Office. Common applications include;
The first thing is to determine a number of thinks about the common applications, for example;
This information will assist in determining the storage and bandwidth required for the system
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