Cisco 200-310 DESGN - Lesson 02

CISCO DESIGN LIFECYCLE: PLAN, BUILD, MANAGE (PBM)

Cisco has updated the network lifecycle with three phases (Plan, Build, and Manage) with processes. The important thing of each phase is to meet with customer’s requirements, organization goals, and constraints.

Plan – Includes processes for the assessment and network strategy, building the network design and defining a plan.
Build – Includes processes for the violation of the solution, development of new IT and network solutions and the migration to new infrastructure.
Manage – Include processes for product support, solution support, optimization and operation management of the network.

Let’s see what are the processes included in each phase with more details.

Plan Phase

Strategy and analysis process

During this process, the network architecture strategies are created.
Road maps to transform the network architecture are developed.
A cost-effective strategy is developed with a measurable return of investment (ROI).

Assessment process

Helps to determine network infrastructure’s compliance against industry and cisco best practices and corporate policies.
Determine the gaps in the network operation team’s ability to support new technologies being introduced.

Design process

Create a resilient and scalable network design that supports to business requirements.

Build Phase

Validation process

Confirm that the propose solution meets the business requirement for availability, security, reliability, and performance through the basement and lab environment.
It can mitigate the risks when upgrading the network.

Deployment process

Install and configure new network solutions with minimum impact on your company’s production networks accomplish with both business and technical goals of new solutions.

Migration process

Upgrade network infrastructure by a systematic and efficient approach by controlling the cost, improving the operation excellence, reduce network operation cost and network/systems outages.
Mitigate the risk when network and software refreshes.

Manage Phase

Product support process

Provides automated network equipment inventory management.
Allowing better planning of equipment upgrades.
Efficiently manages risk, lower support costs and increase operational efficiencies.

Solution support process

Provides dedicated resources to manage and troubleshoot issues that might arise in new complex solutions.
Increase solution uptime and enhance employee productivity.

Optimization process

Identify gaps, deliver recommendation and expert technical support to improve deployed solutions.
Increase performance, availability, resiliency, and visibility of network.

Operations management process

Ensure network staff has enough competence in networking technology to accelerate the adoption of advanced technologies.
Reduce the total cost of network ownership.
Occur in proactive monitoring and network management.

Summary of Network Lifecycle Phases

Plan phase – Strategy and analysis, Assessment and design.
Build phase – validation, deployment, and migration.
Manage phase – product and solution support, optimization and operational management.

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