• Functionality - Allow users to meet their job
requirements and provide user-to-user and user-to-application connectivity
with reasonable speed and reliability.
• Scalability - The initial
design should allow growth without any major changes to the overall
design.
• Adaptability - It should include
no element that would limit implementation of new technologies as they
become available.
• Manageability - The network should be designed
to facilitate network monitoring and management to ensure ongoing stability
of operation.