How network costs be lowered

Question

How can network costs be lowered?

Answer 1

Balancing cost and meeting requirements are perhaps the most difficult aspects of good network design, The essence is in the word compromise.

One may need to trade off some fancy features to meet the cost, while still meeting the basic requirements. There are many aspects where the cost can be made effective. Possibly design should be logical and simpler and easy to troubleshoot.

Following are the factors where cost can be optimized depending on the solution:

• Circuit cost: depending on the requirement leased circuits can be cost effective over the purchased cabling if frequent up gradation of networking is required
• Internetworking devices:
• Hardware cost
• Software cost
• Network management cost
• Test and maintenance cost
• Operation cost