 achieve the institute's strategic goals Key functions like faculty and research enablement Nonfunctional requirements (disaster recovery, redundancy) that are covered Directions on network coverage for the campus Network management and monitoring abilities Security aspects of the network and equipment (firewalls) Ongoing activities to evaluate and pilot options The roadmap itself, with activities planned for the network, are mentioned in bar chart format in terms of the actions and timelines, as excerpted in Table 4-3. Table 4-3. Planned Activities for a Network FY2010 GOALS: (Partially Funded) Increase to 75% deployment of 10/100/1000 to the desktop Increase to 60% deployment of 10GigE to campus buildings Network Admission Control (NAC) pilot (802.1x) for campus networks Ongoing IPv6 pilot for campus networks with improved services and performance Next generation firewall technology evaluation and pilot Multicast deployment to campus networks DNS upgraded to distributed anycast servers; transition to distributed Bluecat appliance infrastructure Excerpted from Office of Information Technology, Georgia Tech, Network Roadmap 2010 So it can be seen that as an organization, the definition of a network roadmap and keeping it up to date and alive could play a very important role in meeting business objectives and making all stakeholders aware of how progress on the roadmap is being made. Also as an LTE operator there are a wide range of parameters to think about and plan for the network at the macro level. When we discuss parameters, we do not mean the deployment and fine-tuning parameters that we discussed in earlier chapters, but rather the higher-level options that could help to better plan the network for the operator. Network Options Why should an operator consider network options as part of the roadmap strategy? The very simple answer is that finding options in the network gives the operator more leverage into the network realization and multiple paths to achieve the business goals. An example is provided in Fig