The days of deploying new equipment for the sake of having the latest and greatest ended when the Internet bubble burst. Nevertheless, there are many legitimate reasons for upgrading your company's enterprise network. The trick is selling those reasons to the executives holding your company's purse strings. When you know it's time for a network upgrade, you need to have more than the technical facts — you need to arm yourself with a rock-solid business case.

Start with these 10 ways to sell the members of your upper-management team on the network upgrade.