From the project scenario below, what area of telecommunications or data communications to hardware and software would you suggest to design for this company's needs. Please provide a list of solutions based on the Network requirements that are listed at the end of the project scenario.
Example of solution:
· Modem dial-up for employees when at home
A VPN-based extranet in order to use its access controls and authentication services to deny or grant access to specific information to the offsite employees.
From there I will build a UML model.
Example of a project scenario:
A computer training company needs an enterprise-wide network.
The company currently has Building 1 in which there are:
· 3 Administrators
· 5 Finance people in accounting
· 1 Finance person in bookstore
· 5 Sales people
· 5 Support people
· 1 Computer person
· 10 Training rooms
The company is leasing space in Building 2 (120' across a parking lot on the same property) in which will be moved from Building 1:
· 3 Administrators
· 5 Finance people in accounting
· 5 Sales people
· 3 Support people
Leaving in Building 1:
· 1 Finance person in bookstore
· 2 Support people
· 1 Computer person
· 10 Training rooms
The company is also leasing Building 3 (2000' away on another property across city streets) which will have:
· 2 New support people
· 20 Training rooms
The company has a branch (250 miles away in the same state) which houses:
· 1 Administrator
· 2 Sales people
· 1 Support person
· 10 Training rooms
The company will be opening more branches of the same size as its current branch in other states and other countries.
Network Requirements
Currently, everyone has either a 486DX66 or a Pentium stand-alone PC with Microsoft Office and Windows 3.11 or Windows95. The only network is a 5-station Lantastic network in accounting.
The new network is to allow:
· All employees to share databases.
· All employees to share scheduling.
· All employees to have secure company e-mail.
· All employees to be able to e-mail to non-company people.
· Videoconferencing for sales staff and administrators.
· Administrators and sales people to have WWW access.
· Modem dial-up for employees when at home.
· 4 wall connections in each training room so that trainers and students can connect to the WWW via laptop computers.
· Firewall to Internet.
· Intranet in the future, if not to be part of this network.
· Systems easily replicated in new branches.