...Running head: WAN DESIGN WAN Design for Acme Manufacturing UoP Student Axia College of University of Phoenix WAN Design for Acme Manufacturing Acme Manufacturing is a rapidly expanding company that is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. The headquarters building houses corporate operations, marketing, administrative staff, and accounting. Across the street from headquarters are the engineering and sales offices. Acme also has distribution offices in Chicago, Phoenix, and New York. Having just acquired a manufacturing facility in China, the company is now in need of a WAN that will allow each office to securely communicate with one another. Acme will also need a telecommunications system that facilitates communication in the most efficient manner. In order to achieve the desired connectivity, an array of products and services will be necessary. Logical Network Design The network topology used for Acme’s WAN should be a star topology with each site having only a direct connection to headquarters; the benefit is that network administration is centralized. The engineering and sales offices will connect to headquarters over the public WAN through a VPN configured with L2TP and IPSec for security. The manufacturing facility in China can be linked to headquarters through a leased satellite connection. Acme should lease three fractional T1 leased lines that extend from the headquarters in Atlanta to the distribution centers, one line each to Phoenix, Chicago, and New...
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...April 4th 2011 ACME Network Design Anthony G, Buddy W, Anthony P, & Ryan O University of Phoenix Mike Kanfer Introduction As a network consultant hired by Acme Manufacturing, the company has asked Team A to develop a new networking design for Acme’s expanding business. The description below describes the key steps involved in developing a WAN for Acme Manufacturing. The company has six different buildings in six different locations throughout the world that needs to be networked collectively. All the remote locations need to communicate effectively with the main headquarters that is in Atlanta, Georgia. The two buildings that house the headquarters are located across from each other. One building is used solely for corporate operations whereas the other building is for staffing the sales and engineering department. PBX vs VOIP PBX (Private Branch Exchange) is a system that has been around for a while. This allows users to communicate to other users in an office, even without an outside line connected. In a normal environment, the user would have to dial a specific number (or code) to access an outside line. In this way an end user could dial a number that would stay internally. A PBX also allows the users to share the lines that are accessible to the company. If a customer were to call the company on the main line, the receptionist could transfer that call to the salesperson. PBX systems also allow for many other features such as: Voice mail, Caller ID, Programmable...
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...WAN Design Company Overview The plan under displays the main procedures involved in developing a WAN for Acme Production. The company’s six different buildings in six different places need to be networked jointly. There is a necessity of communication between all the distant places and the head office building. Two of the headquarters are situated in Atlanta, Georgia. In these two building located across the street from one another, one of these is the head office building and the other is the engineering building. Logical Network Setup and Locations Interconnection A LAN setup having routers and Ethernet wires will be the selection. This is a sensible selection since the speeds of the network will be significantly greater and consequently will lead to a reduced amount of expense. Other three places are the distribution offices that are situated in Chicago, Phoenix, and New York. Satellite communication will be the selected form of link with the head office building. The final division is the plant facility that is situated in China. For this, developing satellite as well will be utilized to interact to the headquarters network. On an overall note, all places must be interconnected that allows function flow between each other. This lets simple interaction to be achieved for specific requirements, for orders and manufacturing. Moreover, it reduces substandard interaction that happens in delivering messages. The network topology utilized for Acme’s WAN must be a star topology...
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...Running head: NETWORK DESIGN FOR ACME Network Design for Acme Manufacturing Learning Team A: [your team members] University of Phoenix Intro To WAN Technologies NTC/242 Acme Manufacturing Network Design Introduction As a network consultant hired by Acme Manufacturing, the company has asked Team A to develop a new networking design for their expanding business. The description below describes the key steps involved in developing a WAN for Acme Manufacturing. The company has six different buildings in six different locations throughout the world which need to be networked collectively. All the remote locations need to be able to communicate effectively with the main headquarters which is located in Atlanta, Georgia. The two buildings which house the headquarters are located across the street from each other. One building is used solely for corporate operations while the other building is used for staffing the sales and engineering department. Network Topology The best choice for the company would be to use a LAN with routers and Ethernet cables. This is a logical choice because the speeds of the network will be far superior and will help to reduce the total cost of the network. The three distribution buildings are located in Chicago, Phoenix, and New York. It is not feasible to run cabling to theses locations due to cost, so using T3 leased lines to communicate is the recommended method to connect the buildings with headquarters...
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...Axia College Material Appendix A Final Project Overview and Timeline Final Project Overview In the final project, you play the role of a network consultant hired to design a new network for a company called Acme Manufacturing. Acme expects a network design document that includes your recommendations. The organization is growing and expanding their operations with the acquisition of a plant in China as well as several other offices throughout the United States. The following are the requirements for the new wide area network. • The network should be designed using all new equipment. • The design document must recommend the types of lines that should be used for each location (i.e. Ethernet, fiber, satellite, and so forth). • There are multiple departments that must be grouped logically to address security. Locations: o Headquarters—Atlanta, Georgia • Houses corporate operations, marketing, administrative staff, and accounting o Engineering—Atlanta, Georgia (across the street from the headquarters building office) • Houses sales and engineering o Distribution offices—Chicago, Phoenix, and New York • Each distribution office has a small sales staff as well as administrative staff. o Plant facility—China • Weekly meetings are held in the corporate conference room at headquarters, with people attending from multiple locations, including China, New York, Chicago, and Phoenix. Final Project Timeline You should budget your time wisely and work on your...
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...Axia College Material Appendix A Final Project Overview and Timeline Final Project Overview In the final project, you play the role of a network consultant hired to design a new network for a company called Acme Manufacturing. Acme expects a network design document that includes your recommendations. The organization is growing and expanding their operations with the acquisition of a plant in China as well as several other offices throughout the United States. The following are the requirements for the new wide area network. • The network should be designed using all new equipment. • The design document must recommend the types of lines that should be used for each location (i.e. Ethernet, fiber, satellite, and so forth). • There are multiple departments that must be grouped logically to address security. Locations: o Headquarters—Atlanta, Georgia • Houses corporate operations, marketing, administrative staff, and accounting o Engineering—Atlanta, Georgia (across the street from the headquarters building office) • Houses sales and engineering o Distribution offices—Chicago, Phoenix, and New York • Each distribution office has a small sales staff as well as administrative staff. o Plant facility—China • Weekly meetings are held in the corporate conference room at headquarters, with people attending from multiple locations, including China, New York, Chicago, and Phoenix. Final Project Timeline ...
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...Applied SOA Service-Oriented Architecture and Design Strategies Mike Rosen Boris Lublinsky Kevin T. Smith Marc J. Balcer Wiley Publishing, Inc. Applied SOA Applied SOA Service-Oriented Architecture and Design Strategies Mike Rosen Boris Lublinsky Kevin T. Smith Marc J. Balcer Wiley Publishing, Inc. Applied SOA: Service-Oriented Architecture and Design Strategies Published by Wiley Publishing, Inc. 10475 Crosspoint Boulevard Indianapolis, IN 46256 www.wiley.com Copyright 2008 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana Published simultaneously in Canada ISBN: 978-0-470-22365-9 Manufactured in the United States of America 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, scanning or otherwise, except as permitted under Sections 107 or 108 of the 1976 United States Copyright Act, without either the prior written permission of the Publisher, or authorization through payment of the appropriate per-copy fee to the Copyright Clearance Center, 222 Rosewood Drive, Danvers, MA 01923, (978) 750-8400, fax (978) 646-8600. Requests to the Publisher for permission should be addressed to the Legal Department, Wiley Publishing, Inc., 10475 Crosspoint Blvd., Indianapolis, IN 46256, (317) 572-3447, fax (317) 572-4355, or online at http://www.wiley.com/go/permissions. Limit of Liability/Disclaimer of Warranty: The publisher and...
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