Network Infrastructure

Question:

Discuss about the Network Infrastructure Planning and Maintenance.

This report is about a Cookies Company which is a store chain for the cookies around the country and is currently experiencing network problems such as slow connectivity of the data network, unreliable and distorted voice calls. This is a challenging situation for both customers and staff, so there is need for a solution that can maintain its reputation for the provision of the experience of the customers that is elevated. The company decided to dump the current IT infrastructure and fresh designs were introduced that would connect the staff, branches and every device. Three topics are discussed for the possible solutions.

This is a software and hardware resource of the entire network that enables network communication, connectivity, management and operation of the enterprise network. It gives the paths of the communication between applications, processes, services, users and internet and the external network (Aagesen, 2014).

Network convergence is the provision video, telephone and data service communication within a single network.it is driven by the demand and technological development. This will allow the cookie company to access a wider range of services through connecting the head office and branches. They will also be able to choose those to provide services, adapt to the new models of the business, enter new markets and gives the services of innovation. Customers of the cookies company will be able to enjoy video chatting, voice calling, interactive internet and television. The services that the cookies company will be enjoying through network convergence are home shopping and banking through internet, online services and webcasting of the news concert and services of the audiovisual (Bertot, 2015).

The unified communication is the integration of the communication services like presence information, instant messaging, video and data sharing, audio, and video conferencing within non-real time services of communication. The customers, branches, and head offices of Cookies Company will be able to send a message on one medium and receive to another medium of the same message. Like they will be able to receive a message of voicemail and devise to access it through cell phone of the mail. Also in an emergency, the ability to communicate notifications and instruction of the damage mitigation and lifesaving is enhanced (Dempsey, 2012).

Local area network is a computer network that interconnects the computer within an area that is limited like residence, and building, like in this situation it will connect the staff, branches and the offices of the cookies company. Most of the technologies used in the local area network are like Ethernet and Wi-Fi. The historical technologies comprise the token ring, apple talk and ARCNET. A structured cabling plan will give the guidelines for the cookies company by providing installation, repair and maintenance of the network. 10BASE-T and the structured cablings are most of the LAN that is used today and can be applied to the cookies company, also, the fibre optics cabling is very common for the links staffs, offices and branches (Dempsey, 2012).

Network Convergence

A wide area network is a computer network that extends over a large area. It can be used in the cookies company to relay data from the head office to the branches and also to customers. Many technologies are available in the wide area links of the network. Examples are the transmission of radio waves, circuit telephone lines and the optic fibre.it is connected all over the world. Their transmission rate is very high and a new laser was developed that multiplies transfer speed over the optic fibre. When these two technologies are combined in the cookies company it can help customers, head office and its branches since the transfer speed can be higher. Types of WAN are, cable modem, DLS, ISDN, SONET, SD-WAN, frame relay, X.25, leased line and dial-up (Devdas Shetty, 2013).

Transmission devices use many ways to communicate. They use wireless or wired transmission media. Wired transmission devices are the connection between the devices that are electronic using the methods that are physical. The examples of the wired transmission devices are the coaxial cable that carries the current of electricity at a frequency of the radio. Is used for the broadband internet and cable television. The fibre optic cable that has many glass fibre for light transmission and lastly a twisted pair that is made of pairs of wire that are twisted around each other (Foust, 2013).

Wireless transmission devices transmit network data without the physical contact.  The methods are: radio waves that are used in the LAN without wires using frequencies and transmission of satellites to the stationary station of the earth. Microwave transmit data up to fifty kilometers but it cannot get through or around the objects. Infrared waves used in the control of the devices or the remote that need to communicate over the short distance the technologies of the wireless. Transmission devices are Bluetooth and Wi-Fi, these can be used in the cookies company. The various connecting devices that can be employed in the cookies company can be router, repeater, hub, bridge and switch (Iniewski, 2014).

The ability to discover the whole network automatically is the key to visibility issue solving. The IP management allows the discovery of the network by scanning many IPs and discovers devices that are new in the network to build a picture of the IP space that is deployed. The IP management will help the cookies company by resolving the IP conflict, detect the IPs that are stale and are not in use and reassign them, reconcile the IP without the deployment of information of the real world (Iniewski, 2014).

Unified Communication

A global DNS software of management manages many bind servers, the resource creation record of the DNS and the software for management. These scalable, secure, and software of multi-platform can be used together. The DNS ensures the integrity and security of the data, allows the branches and head office of the cookies to give the available blocks through the portal, provides good performance and create and manage domains easily with the features like the wizards and templates (Janschek, 2011).

The network service is the application running at the layer of the network application that gives storage of the data, presentation, communication and manipulation or other capacity implemented using peer to peer or the client-server architecture based on the network protocols of the application layers. every service is normally given by the component of the server running or more or one serves computer and accessed through the network by the component of the client that on other device running. Both the server component and client may run on the same machine (Aagesen, 2014).

Examples are the domain name system that translates the names of the domain to the protocol of the internet address and the dynamic host configuration protocol whose function is to assign the configuration of the network information to the network host. the cookies company will be able to identify the authenticate users through the server of the authentication, also will be providing the account profile of the user, and the usage statics can be logged in. other services of the network are video over IP, world wide web, web services, intranet, extranet, email, file server, video on demand, video on telephony, instant messaging, wireless sensor network and directory services (Bertot, 2015).

Data processing system is the combination of the people, machine and processes that for the input set gives the output sets. Input and outputs are known as information, data and facts. The cookies company will be able to converse, sort, summarize, aggregate, analyses, and validate data (Dempsey, 2012).

The magnetic tape deck, drums, printers, discs, paper tapes output and input and cards need a space in the accommodations that are constructed especially with the air conditioner. These represent the card input to the computer that reduces the time for sorting large amount of the data. The cookies company can use the data storages that is standardized. The relational database are developed by the suppliers in different convention and format. Common files can be shared between the head office and the branches to allow online, validation and real input time (Bertot, 2015)

Local Area Network

Storage area network provides the access to consolidated, and data storage of the block level. They are used in the enhancement of the storage devices. The company will be able to allow server to boot from SAN and will be able to enable the process of the disaster recovery.

Cloud is a form of off-premise computing that store data on the internet whereas data centre is the hardware of the on-premise that store data within the local network of the organization. The cookies company will be able to access the stored information and apps through the data centre and also with the internet connection they will be able to access the companies’ information. A distributed database is where the devices of the storage are not attached to the common processor (Iniewski, 2014).

A data processing model organizes data elements and standardizes on their relation to one another and the entities of real-world entities. It supports the system of information development and gives the format and definition of data (Foust, 2013).

This is the technology that allows the sharing of MP3s.and enable the free downloads of the music. The p2p network can help the cookies company to facilitate audit in the accounting C/S that includes the exchange of clients information and work paper between the laptops or from their head office to the branches. The company can also use peer to peer as a workstation for the user in the office, and with client, server request is able to be accommodated any time (Iniewski, 2014)

Conclusion

Through all these technologies, when employed by the cookies company then the productivity and operations will be high. The network infrastructure is a software and a hardware resources of the entire network that enable network communication, connectivity, management and operation of the enterprise network The network service is the application running at the layer of the network application that gives storage of the data, presentation, communication and manipulation or other capacity implemented using peer to peer or the client-server architecture based on the network protocols of the application layers. Data processing system is the combination of the people, machine and processes that for the input set gives the output sets.

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