Technical stakeholder identification ensures that the network architecture reflects infrastructure requirements, security obligations, operational constraints, and implementation dependencies.

The Network Engineering Manager is a primary technical stakeholder because this role typically maintains responsibility for network capacity planning, wired and wireless infrastructure, uplink design, routing, switching, redundancy, and network operational requirements.

The architect must obtain accurate port-utilization information, access-switch requirements, anticipated endpoint growth, uplink bandwidth needs, and infrastructure limitations from the network engineering team.

The Director of Security Compliance is also relevant because campus access-layer architecture must support authentication, network segmentation, access control, regulatory compliance, and security-policy enforcement.

Security requirements can directly influence switching architecture, particularly when implementing 802.1X, MAC authentication, role-based authorization, and HPE Aruba Networking ClearPass.

The CFO is primarily concerned with expenditure, financial justification, and cost optimization. The COO focuses on business operations and service delivery, while the Human Resources Manager primarily represents workforce and organizational requirements.

Although these stakeholders can influence the project's overall scope, their primary responsibilities are not detailed access-layer engineering.

A comprehensive requirements-discovery process must incorporate both network engineering and security compliance perspectives before the preliminary architecture and bill of materials are approved.

Official HPE Reference Topics: Identify Technical Stakeholders and Map Their Roles; Collect and Document the Current Environment; Interpret Technical Requirements. HPE Aruba Networking Campus Design — Access Security and Network Architecture.

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