Once you have considered all the business tasks and functions you expect to implement on the network, write them down and assign priorities to each item. As you begin deploying your plan, you might need to consider which parts you can do now and which can be addressed later. Take care of critical business functions first. Consider you are establishing the connection for a start up business name XYZ.orgaka small business organization. You are to decide what kind of business it is.

Prerequisite to network design is a complete assessment of expected functionality.

Be elaborative in why do you need what and which capacity of that particular service do you require.

• Have a clear sense of what you need it to accomplish.
• Think about all the tasks you want to automate or make more efficient through your computer network.
• What business applications do you need to support?
• Do you simply need to provide shared access to word processing files, or do you have multiuser databases to support?
• Do you need electronic mail?
• Web servers?
• Point-of-sale operations?
• Will you require Internet access?
• What type or facility you will need considering the internet access?
• Sizing the network in details (capacity and futureproofing)
• Do you want to follow any standard approach of other organization, if so which one?