Mis589 Week 2 You Decide
MIS589 – Wk2
You Decide
After conducting interviews with the key stakeholders at the Leonard Cooper Charter School, we have identified several issues with the current network that need to be addressed. According to Network Technician, Helen Ross printing is a problematic area. The school currently has over 50 networked printers in the building and they would like a way to consolidate the management of print jobs due to the queues of the printers often being filled.
Recommendation: Install a print server to handle print requests on the LAN. This will offload the management of printing from the main LAN and increase network efficiency. In addition a 24 port switch will need to be installed to assist with communications between the printers and networked devices. This will alleviate the printer collisions and allow print jobs to complete much more quickly.
The network has also become a source of contention with frequent collisions especially at peak periods during the day such as the morning when everyone gets is and starts their daily activities. An interview with IT Director, Alfred Wingfield has revealed that the cable infrastructure is in dire need of replacement to enable the use of a voice over I.P. system with the current system. In addition, the customer would like all of the backbone switches connected to each other with a high speed connection.
Recommendation: Install Category 6 UTP 1000Base T Ethernet Cabling. While this may not be the most cost effective solution, it will alleviate all of the customers concerns by providing a high speed connection that can handle the voice over I.P. system as well as connect all network switches and reduce the current bottlenecks experienced by the customer. This cabling solution will also allow the network to run at full duplex rather than the current half duplex. In a half duplex network data travels both directions over a shared pair of wires causing frequent collisions. Switching to a full duplex
You Decide
After conducting interviews with the key stakeholders at the Leonard Cooper Charter School, we have identified several issues with the current network that need to be addressed. According to Network Technician, Helen Ross printing is a problematic area. The school currently has over 50 networked printers in the building and they would like a way to consolidate the management of print jobs due to the queues of the printers often being filled.
Recommendation: Install a print server to handle print requests on the LAN. This will offload the management of printing from the main LAN and increase network efficiency. In addition a 24 port switch will need to be installed to assist with communications between the printers and networked devices. This will alleviate the printer collisions and allow print jobs to complete much more quickly.
The network has also become a source of contention with frequent collisions especially at peak periods during the day such as the morning when everyone gets is and starts their daily activities. An interview with IT Director, Alfred Wingfield has revealed that the cable infrastructure is in dire need of replacement to enable the use of a voice over I.P. system with the current system. In addition, the customer would like all of the backbone switches connected to each other with a high speed connection.
Recommendation: Install Category 6 UTP 1000Base T Ethernet Cabling. While this may not be the most cost effective solution, it will alleviate all of the customers concerns by providing a high speed connection that can handle the voice over I.P. system as well as connect all network switches and reduce the current bottlenecks experienced by the customer. This cabling solution will also allow the network to run at full duplex rather than the current half duplex. In a half duplex network data travels both directions over a shared pair of wires causing frequent collisions. Switching to a full duplex