• What are the distances between Buildings?
• Is there existing cabling, and if so what is it and how many strands?
• Will there be a multi floor env in the buildings, what will the vertical and horizontal cable runs look like, and is their any issues?

CURRENT NETWORK CONFIGURATION

• Types of topologies(enet TR fDDI ATM)?
• What types of existing lan based hubs?
• Existing switching produts in house: what types?
• What routers are in the network?
• What protocols are supported on network? What protocols are routed? (RIP. OSPF. IGRP. DecNet. IPX. Appletalk. ECT?)
• What classes of IP addresses are in use? What are the IP addresses
• Is there a University wide network IP mask, and are you using variable length subnet masks?
• What type of network management platform?
• What are the desktop platforms, workstations, and operating sytems?
• What does the SNA nework look like?
  • use of SDLC
  • wide area lines-speeds,structure
  • the mainframes-model/type,o.s

FUTURE PROFILE

• Are you a router-centric network, if yes do you plan to remain router-centric?
• What issues/objections do you have with your current environment?
• What are your major application?
• What are your future application?
• What new technololgies are you looking for (imaging Multimedia ect.)?
• What are your plans for addressing ATM?
• What are your plans for addressing Virtual Networks?