Cost Assessment
Assessment of the costs of various physical network design alternatives
Complex process; many factors; consider:
- Circuit costs (leased circuits and purchased cabling)
- Internetworking devices (switches and routers)
- Hardware costs (servers, hubs, NICs & UPSs)
- Software costs (network operating systems, application software and middleware)
- Network management costs including special hardware, software, and training needed for network management
- Test and maintenance costs for monitoring equipment and supporting onsite repairs
- Operations costs to run the network