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 York. Because of the rapid growth of the company, leasing fractional T1 lines ensures Acme is prepared for the future. My proposed WAN topology for Acme Manufacturing is represented in figure one below.
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Figure 1 - Proposed WAN Topology for Acme Manufacturing

Though leased lines and satellite communications will enable long distance network connectivity, the LANs at each