|  | 9.1 | Project Planning
| 9.1.2 | Network documentation

Your structured cabling project will be done at the request of a client who wants you to wire a room (or a school). Your responsibility as the designer will include written documentation, including fact-finding assessments, work-in-progress reports, and final reports and test results. Your very first task, as the network designer, will be to have your client specify, in writing, the desired outcome of the project.

The following list includes some of the documentation that you should create while you are in the process of planning/designing your network:

- engineering journal
- logical topology
- physical topology
- cut sheets
- problem-solving matrices
- labeled outlets
- labeled cable runs
- summary of outlets and cable runs
- summary of devices, MAC addresses, and IP addresses

You might also ask your instructor if there is any other documentation that is relevant to your project. Perhaps the most important part of the network design process is designing according to the ANSI/TIA/EIA and ISO/IEC industry standards. For an excellent introduction to these standards (with PDF downloads available), see the Siemon Company Guide to Industry Standards.

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