Introduction
This outline is to aid you in choosing your companies first network or up grading your companies existing, but some what antiquated network. Developing clear technical specifications is the key to a successful installation. The following information will form the basis for developing a network technical specification. The network will be designed to support printing and data sharing operations. For going a planing stage is a guaranteed recipe for disaster. The information which follows in this outline is copyrighted by Viable Solutions and may not be reproduce and/or copied in any form.
More information on setting up a corporate Network & Shared Printing

Local Area Networking and Intranets

Wide Area Networking & Internet Solutions

-Frame Relay
-Point-to-Point (Direct Connect)
-Connecting your LAN to the Internet

This discussion on setting up a corporate network will include, although will not be limited to, the primary areas of:

Cabling & Connection Issues
· Acquisition, installation, and testing of approved 10Base-T or ThinWire cable.
Choosing Hardware and OS
· Acquisition of approved hardware, w/ utilization of existing equipment when possible.
· Acquisition of approved software, w/ utilization of existing equipment when possible.
Installation, Configuration and Testing
Internet or not to Internet?
Backups, Backups, Backups
· Implementation of daily data backup and recovery scheme.
Securing your Network from Intruders
· Security issues - controlling who has access to what and exactly what they can due with it.   90% percent of companies with 25 or more employees will be suffer from a .