Colin Ziegler
ISSC340
April 26, 2015
Case Study
Scenario: America One Car (AOC) dealership is moving into a newly built facility in a suburb town of Washington, D.C.You are retained as a consultant by AOC dealership to design a network solution for their new location. The new facility is assumed to be wired with UTP and fiber, with outlets in specific locations. The basic network is to be a LAN that serves desktop computers in the general manager’s office, in the salesmen’s area, and the showroom area; mobile devices (laptops, smartphones, tablets, etc.); and various accessories (printers, etc.). A major component of the network is a file server (for storing the sale contracts, and other files). Of primary importance is the Internet access solution (e.g., leased lines, Cable, DSL, broadband wireless, fiber to the home, satellite). Other components (such as web server, and database server) may be added for completeness (to earn extra credit).
Design a network solution, considering the following:
• Type and topology of LAN
• LAN cabling
• Storage file server: data back-up/archiving, file consistency, file access logs, and data recovery
• Internet access method (assume maximum availability of solutions)
• Security (all pertinent issues)
• Any other specific issues, such as web and database servers (for extra credit)
Introduction
A complete topology layout for a network covers an end-to-end networking solution. The design of the network has to
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In the Network Design Paper I will explain how the University has recently leased a building in Adelphi, Maryland. The measurements of the University is 240 feet long, 95 feet wide and 30 feet tall and broken down to two different floors. This University will be used for education purposes of course, the facility will be made of six instructional labs, seven offices, library, five classrooms, a student lobby and a computer lab. There will be a server room on each floor. The purpose of this paper is to explain the design of the networks in this building. The student accessed computers will be set up on a separate network than the network that they staff will be using.
Kudler fine foods is looking to implement a new system that will allow them to be more efficient in their expansion. Their current network system architecture that Kudler uses is a setup of a 56K modem and a POS system that runs on an WIN9x that is connected to an Ethernet Network. The three locations use the same network setup that runs on Novell 4.11 server and have separate computer with Windows NT server, IIS 4 server and have separate computer with Windows NT server, IIS 4 and still uses dial up that all their computers link up to.
When it comes to planning an entire system network is not a easy task. We need to explore the options and I plan on covering this in the essay and will go into brief details about several key concepts and explain key points in Peer to Peer (P2P) client / server architecture, web based computing and how network and their protocols are required for successful network implementation.
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BMW (U.S) Holding Corporation is a franchise of the high-end performance based global automotive company BMW. For the first time in its history, BMW is to launch its first American made car, the BMW Z3 Roadster. Having only made cars in Germany, this time the car is to be assembled in Spartanburg, South Carolina. BMW’s objective is to expand its market share in the U.S., make the brand name more global and improve its dealer network. With this in mind, the company developed a two phases launch plan for the BMW Z3 Roadster.
With the past of the time is believed that cars have to be better and better. Cars have been one of the humans’ greatest inventions. At the same time has been considered cars to be a problem, because of the pollution, smog and the accidents caused by young people. Like in America there are too many problems in relation to cars in too many parts of the world. For example there’s Germany, France and Colombia.
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