
Enterprise Network Deployment Playbook – Part 2: Architecture & Design Choices
Enterprise Network Deployment only gets real when the outsourcing crew’s Sharpie marks become a purchase order. In Part 1 we nailed discovery; now we—an external managed-service provider, not the client’s internal IT squad—must transform raw business objectives into a blueprint that survives board scrutiny, procurement trench warfare, and 3 a.m. failovers. Grab coffee; this is where reputations are forged. Anchor Every Design Choice to Business Outcomes Our outsourcing contracts rise or fall on KPI dashboards, not pretty Visio art. Before a single topology sketch, we lock three driver tables: Revenue-Critical Flows – payment gateway, real-time analytics, click-and-collect APIs. Risk Posture – regulatory penalties, brand damage tolerance, ransomware recovery RTO. Growth Velocity – number of sites per quarter, cloud-migration cadence,...