ABSTRACT
Selecting and procuring a high-speed LAN/WAN system can be a challenging task. Your first step is to understand your high-speed LAN/WAN requirements. This chapter is intended as a guide for helping you determine and define these requirements (how to specify and achieve them) by making the requirements testable through the examination of the following key selection parameters: throughput, cost, and availability. After you have identified these requirements, please see Section III, “Designing High-Speed LAN/WAN Systems,” of this book for information on selecting high-speed LAN/WAN capability and reliability options that meet these requirements.
