Google Education – access infrastructure guide - Manual (Page 11)

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Develop your action plan
1. Scope your network size
a. Planning horizon for this network ( 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 ...10 years)
b. Total number of users and devices
c. Number of concurrent users , taking in to account light and peak usage times
d. % of wired and wireless users
e. other types of applications other than cloud based services that will be running
on your network
f. Discuss and decide on any policy issues, content filtering, who has access when
2. Plan network elements you will be adding / upgrading to meet scope requirements
3. Get internal buy in for scope and plans
4. Get RFP’s from vendors ( Use this process to educate yourself on the breath of
solutions available)
5. Select from Vendor RFP submissions
6. Stakeholder review of Selected solution and purchase go ahead
7. Issue purchase orders
8. Procure equipment and execute deployment (including change management if applicable)
9. Test deployment
10. Fix any issues
11. Go live