Rapid Local Area Network Design for Dynamic Environments

The organisational structures change in a fast pace in these days due to market changes, restructures, mergers, forming alliances and flexible work patterns of employees. These changes require their networks also to be realigned at the same pace. Moving the network configuration and management to cloud service providers is also a new tread in modern organisations. In this climate, an expensive and time-consuming design approach such as the Top-down design approach may not be the best option.
In this proposed research project, it is suggested that the commonly used network design methodologies such as Top-down network design methodology should be revisited and analysed, and a rapid network design methodology that can still satisfy the evolving business and technical requirements should be developed.

在当今时代，由于市场变迁、重组、合并、建立联盟以及员工灵活的工作模式，组织结构正以迅猛的速度发生变化。这些变化要求其网络也以同样的速度进行调整。将网络配置和管理转移到云服务提供商也成为了现代组织中的一个新趋势。在这种背景下，如自上而下的设计方法这样既昂贵又费时的设计途径可能并非最佳选择。在本项拟议的研究项目中，建议重新审视和分析常用的网络设计方法，如自上而下的网络设计方法，并开发一种能够满足不断变化的商业和技术需求的高速网络设计方法。