Voice over IP Crash Course, Chapter 4: Validating the existing network

In this chapter, you will learn how to carefully craft a migration strategy, perform asset and capability inventories, decide what capabilities are required that your current network can not deliver and uncover tangible and intangible costs that can be mined out as a result of implementation. This chapter also covers the pre-assessment phase, the physical network, the logical network, network utilization, usage practices and policies.

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