Brian Kruchten
May 24, 2015
IT/242
Jimmie Flores
ACME Manufacturing is a growing organization, with locations in many different cities and it is now becoming a global company with its newest location in China. With the continuation of growth a company such as this will need a secure WAN.
ACME 's system topology would most likely be best as a star topology. Every site needs to have an immediate line to the headquarters in Atlanta, Ga. All distribution and engineering sites could be connected to the Atlanta site with a public WAN through a VPN designed with IPSec for security purposes. They could lease a few T1 lines to interface the Atlanta headquarters to the three distribution sites and still leave a lot of space to develop. Then, the plant office in China would be simplest to interface Atlanta with a satellite.
LANs at every area could be set up with Ethernet systems working at rates up to 100Mbps, allowing the packet switching, latency, and the channel capacity to be more efficient. In packet switching, data is separated into smaller bundles before being conveyed. Having smaller bundles allows every bundle to pick their own particular ways to the planned area, this permits resources to be reallocated as the needs grow.
ACME will require CSU/DSU to end the lines at each distribution center and headquarters because of the leasing of dedicated network media. Having leased lines involves getting a different frame type to be used for information than what is typically utilized as a part of a LAN setting. A CSU/DSU changes LAN frames into frames that can be utilized on the leased lines (Regan, 2004).
A router switch offers routing capabilities alongside the usual switching capabilities at high rates of efficiency and speed. A switch offers wire rate directing backing for Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol, Open Shortest Path First Protocol and Routing Information Protocol. A newer model of router switches gives incorporated knowledge to
References: Regan, P. (2004). Wide area networks. New Jersey: Pearson Education, Inc.