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The law office uses Windows 7 (64 bit) Operating System laptops running standard MS Office 2010 Products. The administrative staff uses the network to send e-mail, browse the Internet, run payroll, bookkeeping (Quickbooks), scheduling appointments, invoicing, creating legal documents, etc. The lawyers and legal aides mainly use the computers to search electronic law libraries to research legal cases from around the state and country, as well as some of the above administrative tasks (e.g. e-mail, web search, calendaring). One of the office staff currently maintains the computers and the 10BaseT LAN but is a novice. This limited support is an issue with the law firm.
As a consultant, you bring to the table standard methods and processes for developing the client solution. Your client is requesting a written analysis (typed, double-spaced) You must use no less than 6 resources. Cite all sources. All references must be cited in two places: within the text and on a reference list.
*To facilitate your Network Design Project’s creation, please utilize the following eight (8) sections as sub-headings.*
1-Executive Summary (Needed)
Outline your network design strategy, mission and goals. Point out key success factors and/or major pitfalls you plan to avoid. Reference major actions or changes you anticipate, and how these may impact your strategy. Be sure to include a good Mission Statement that meets the criteria of the defined scenario that you choose. This should be a standalone paragraph that clearly indicates the requirements and addresses how your plan will meet them, in general terms. Ensure that you have clearly stated what your Network Design Plan is designed to do, e.g., measureable goals by which your design will solve the scenario or customer’s requirements. What do you plan to accomplish? An Executive Summary is a synopsis of the critical information that is found in the other sections of the document. Its purpose is to communicate to the reader “this is what you will be reading.” Thus, you might include a brief paragraph for each of the key sections – as outlined in the remaining seven sections below – that help the reader to understand your synopsis overview. minimum length: 1 page (keep it concise)
2-Project Scope (Not needed I will build on it myself)
3-Project Goal (Not needed I will build on it myself)
4-Design Requirements (Not needed I will build on it myself)
5-Current State of the Network (Need you to improve/build on)
A significant section of the network design plan is examining your customer’s existing network. To better judge how to meet expectations for network performance, scalability and reliability, this section should describe the customer’s current state of the network. This section should concentrate on characterizing the existing network. Understanding the current topology and locating the existing network segments and equipment will be useful to verify your customer’s or project’s goal, and will be useful when trying to determine the new equipment that must be installed in the network. In addition to understanding and documenting the topology, this section should describe a baseline of the current performance. This will be an important measurement to demonstrate that your new design improves performance. Only minor modifications should be provided after this submission, because understanding the existing customer’s network is an important step in developing your new logical and physical design. Minimum length: 2 pages
6-New Logical and Physical Design (Needed)
Develop a network topology based on knowledge gained about traffic flow and load in the requirements section of this design plan. This section should also discuss the network layer addressing and naming models, and selects bridging, switching and routing protocols. Any security and network management strategies should be covered in this section. Provide a detailed description of the rationale behind your design using process steps outlined in the course. Be sure that the solutions you propose relate directly to the requirements of the network as identified in the development process steps. Discuss the concepts, ideas or insights that are most valuable in helping you make sense of your network design. This is not a course in applied commonsense, so support your analysis with reference to appropriate research. This section should tie together the requirements which include the traffic flow and project goals to the physical design, in which cabling, devices and technologies are added to the final network architecture. This section and the implementation plan are the most important sections of your network design. Start thinking this through as soon as you have the existing network characterized. It is important to spend significant time in working through this section of the plan. Minimum length: 2 pages
7-Implementation Plan (Needed)
Explore the solution(s) that could be appropriate to solve the identified requirements of the network that arise during the network design process. Be sure the solution(s) is/are logical based on your analysis and that the solution(s) would effectively satisfy the identified requirements. Also, discuss the anticipated outcomes (both positive and negative) of implementing the network design solution(s) you identified. Describe how the network as designed would be managed for optimal outcomes. Your implementation plan should include recommendations for deploying the proposed network design, a project plan (including any dates and times for service provider installations), discuss any plans for outsourcing, training, identify risks, a fallback plan if the implementation should fail and a plan for evolving the design as new requirements arise. This section should be developed in conjunction with the new logical and physical design section. This section will describe, in words, how the customer will implement your proposed solution. Minimum length: 2 pages
8-Project Budget (Needed)
Include in your plan, your project budget or projected dollar costs for your first year of expenses. This should be based on your having made a diligent effort to understand approximate expenses for designing the network. The budget should include allocations for equipment purchases, software licenses, maintenance and support agreement, testing, training and staffing. It is important that you research your costs. You should be able to cite references that will allow you to share the actual costs for which you will budget. Do your best not to “guess” in order to provide a realistic project budget that covers everything you deem necessary to complete the project. You should state who, within the company, has control of the budget. And try to contain costs as much as possible. Reduced budgets or limited resources often force network designers to select the most affordable solution instead of the best solution. The data for this section can be provided in an excel spreadsheet, but should contain an overall description of the items contained in the budget. Minimum length: 1 page
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