问10个人之间的区别是小to medium business (SMB) and small to medium enterprise (SME), and we’re going to get nearly 10 different answers. Some will say that it’s a distinction of organizational structure. Others will say that an SMB becomes an SME after it reaches a certain number of employees. Still, others will say that it’s only a difference of terminology and that the two terms are used interchangeably depending on locale. None of these is necessarily wrong, but a hazy definition makes for a difficult marketing target and people like to simplify.
For purposes of design, it’s best to leave out the size and focus on the approach. That leaves us with the last letter of the initialism: business vs enterprise. Business can be defined as any commercial operation. Enterprise, on the other hand, has more interesting connotations. Looking at the牛津英语词典，，，，we find boldness, complexity, initiative, and resourcefulness associated with the definition.
For our purposes, let’s say the SMBs are the static organizations with needs met by basic technological solutions. The SMEs, on the other hand, are growing quickly and their requirements can change almost daily.
尽管如此，SMB和SME还是大多数人都将其视为一个市场细分市场，并且产品倾向于其中的第一个市场。
三年预测
三年（有时甚至更长）的预测是确定设计适用性的重要组成部分。没有人愿意做计划外叉车升级在组件达到预计有用性的结束之前。没有这些预测，早期升级是远的more likely to be a reality.
Various factors are usually taken into account, most of them revolving around business growth estimates. For static SMBs and perhaps some of the larger organizations, this is going to be fairly linear and easy to project. The more adventurous organizations, like the SMEs, make this more complicated. This is a nice way of saying that they can sometimes be completely unpredictable.
现在！
出现的冒险性企业在需要网络增强功能时具有相当一致的时间表，而且不是明天。我们可以说，它不在设计的范围之内，并且可以使用一两次。它发生的频率越多，我们就越接近不需要的过早升级。
扩大
当涉及到小型企业时，为现在（甚至将来的将来）构建，并希望他们不超越建筑是一场冒险的赌博。传统上，确实没有什么选择。中小型企业通常受到成本的约束，因此建立好东西快速（更重要的是，灵活）通常会遇到十二个网络真相或RFC 1925（7a）and required compromise. Those compromises usually amounted to building an SMB-focused solution that just didn’t have the flexibility to grow as needed.
这些年来，一些事情发生了变化。
Commoditization
开源一直是将高级网络功能带给更多受众的催化剂。一旦技术在Linux中实施了可靠的实施，较小和成本康复的组织就会跳上它，因为它是free!最终，他们发现维护这些系统的努力和成本需要考虑到其中，但这需要时间。开源很棒，但是从操作的角度来看，它是“像小狗一样自由”使用。
也就是说，这只是时间问题，它将其变成一家公司或另一家公司的设备，并提供全面支持的交钥匙解决方案，以合理的价格消除了痛苦。
一旦较大的供应商开始失去这些解决方案的销售，我们就会开始看到一些更高级的功能找到了他们的高级产品。
在这一点上，无论我们是使用开源产品还是供应商解决方案，我们都有比以往更多的选择。
缩放
当今市场上可用的产品的功能要比以前低得多。这使我们能够在没有超过客户预算的情况下应用比以前更灵活的设计。
在小型企业中应用大型设计最终会节省金钱和时间，但可能需要更多地注视水晶球才能估算它们可能会成为的地方。
We shouldn’t be thinking in terms of what the customer needs now until the customer says they need something now. If we’ve thought big enough in the first place, whatever requirements the customer comes up with later shouldn’t be a big problem.
电线中的耳语
整个网络行业都倾向于假设较小的网络是更简单的网络，这反映在销售到小空间的产品中。这并不是普遍的，但是很常见，足以限制小型办公室的选择。
商品化慢慢将较大的企业技术降低到适合较小的成本/收益分析的水平。当客户增长的速度比基础知识允许的范围快时，我们不再需要为基础知识而定。
We need to design for where the customerwants并停止思考现在的位置。这将不仅涉及预计增长。调整较大的设计以进行较小的实施，将在试图扩大较小设计时发现的许多限制。
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