I am not a networking person; however, your example makes no sense to me. I understand that this is an example; however, people are going to respond to your post based on that example. I think the most obvious reply will be, "does that IT-Team still have a job after designing a network that only handles less than 50% of the peak performance requirements." };-)
I know that when we expanded operations at my facility, there were some questions asked at the meetings I was able to attend. From the notes I have from the first meetings a few things were talked about:
+ Bandwidth and application needs
+ Legacy connectivity options (we have 20 year old networking in some areas)
+ Moving current standalone systems to the network (using internal VOIP with the current telephone PABX systems, fire and security networks, etc..)
+ Security for bring-your-own-device
+ Network management schemas.
+ and a few more items that I think are specific to our infrastructure.
Hopefully, this will get the thought processes going for you and attract the attention of one of the networking Gurus
Best Regards
-Z
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