Budgeting
Careful planning and budgeting means less guesswork when it comes to installation of a wireless network. Review this list of costs associated with buying a network to determine how much it will really cost to build a system from the ground up.
EQUIPMENT
In estimates, be sure to include initial purchase, installation, and maintenance costs, as well as possible upgrade costs.
PERFORMANCE
Performance upgrades, like decreasing response time from several seconds to a half-second, can mean employee and customer satisfaction. This, however, can mean more funds spent on network interfaces, networking nodes, and modems for these type of improvements.
INSTALLATION
Costs include installation labor, site modification, and fees associated with local code conformance.
EXPANSION
Calculate the cost of adding additional functionality, an employee expansion, or moving to a new location.
SUPPORT
Keep your network simple. Complicated networks cost more to monitor, configure, and maintain.
DOWNTIME
If a user is unable to access a file server or a centralized database, what will the downtime cost the company?
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