IT 242 - Final Project WAN Design
Final Project: WAN Design
IT/242
10 March 2013
Dr. Jimmie Flores
The needs of Acme Manufacturing
The growing company of Acme Manufacturing has numerous operational facilities in many different locations. The offices are throughout the United States with Atlanta, Georgia as the company’s headquarters and their plant in China. The headquarters supplies corporate operations, marketing, administrative staff, and accounting. Engineering is across the street from the headquarters’ building. Engineering contains the sales and engineering departments. Acme Manufacturing’s distribution offices are located in Chicago, Phoenix, New York. A small sales team and administrative staff are within each distribution office.
Acme Manufacturing is seeking to implement a Wide Area Network (WAN). By implementing a WAN, the company can interconnect all offices and staff to increase the productivity and minimize the costs. To help with reducing costs, the company also wants to implement a telecommunications system. This will help reduce costs of travel by giving the technology to perform teleconferencing, data sharing, and real time communication between all office locations.
The Network Design
A logical star topology using CAT5e UTP cabling will be used for the WAN. For a dedicated line from each location to the headquarters will be a T1 leased line. Chicago, Phoenix, and New York will need the T1 leased line connection back to the headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia. The T1 leased line was chosen over the T3 leased line because a T3 leased line could be substantially more expensive. The offices across the street for sales and engineering will use a VPN to connect to the headquarters building and a leased satellite connection will be used to connect the plant in China to the headquarters building.
VoIP
Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) will support the telecommunication needs of the company. VoIP will reduce costs by eliminating any long distance
IT/242
10 March 2013
Dr. Jimmie Flores
The needs of Acme Manufacturing
The growing company of Acme Manufacturing has numerous operational facilities in many different locations. The offices are throughout the United States with Atlanta, Georgia as the company’s headquarters and their plant in China. The headquarters supplies corporate operations, marketing, administrative staff, and accounting. Engineering is across the street from the headquarters’ building. Engineering contains the sales and engineering departments. Acme Manufacturing’s distribution offices are located in Chicago, Phoenix, New York. A small sales team and administrative staff are within each distribution office.
Acme Manufacturing is seeking to implement a Wide Area Network (WAN). By implementing a WAN, the company can interconnect all offices and staff to increase the productivity and minimize the costs. To help with reducing costs, the company also wants to implement a telecommunications system. This will help reduce costs of travel by giving the technology to perform teleconferencing, data sharing, and real time communication between all office locations.
The Network Design
A logical star topology using CAT5e UTP cabling will be used for the WAN. For a dedicated line from each location to the headquarters will be a T1 leased line. Chicago, Phoenix, and New York will need the T1 leased line connection back to the headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia. The T1 leased line was chosen over the T3 leased line because a T3 leased line could be substantially more expensive. The offices across the street for sales and engineering will use a VPN to connect to the headquarters building and a leased satellite connection will be used to connect the plant in China to the headquarters building.
VoIP
Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) will support the telecommunication needs of the company. VoIP will reduce costs by eliminating any long distance
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