Referring to the following three business scenarios (images attached), give your opinion of the viability of applying the Network Topology technology to the given scenarios. State why or why not you believe NETWORK TOPOLOGY would be beneficial to the company. Scenario 1The main offices of a manufacturing company are located in Texas and it is your task todesign their network configuration. There are four main sites:Dallas HQ - this site is the Hub of the Frame Relay Circuit and it is also the main pointof connection to the public Internet.Ft. Worth - this site contains the server farm for internal and external use. There arealso some admin staff located who manage/monitor the servers to which they havedirect contact.Austin - this site houses the main manufacturing and car assembly factory. The site atBuilding 2 now contains the new modernized factory and Building 1 will be transformedinto offices in the future. Within Building 2 site there are two VLANS, one forManagement Staff, and the other for Factory Staff. There is also a Wireless AccessPoint from which management staff connect PDA's whilst they are on the factory floor.As things stand, there has been no development at Building 1 and it only houses theFrame Relay connection back to Dallas HQ.Houston - this site houses most of the administration staff and various departments.Since team such as Engineers, Marketing, & Factory Administrators are located here,then we must ensure 100% connectivity and redundancy. The offices consist of fourfloors, with each department on their own individual VLÁN. Scenario 2Several medical offices decided to consolidate their businesses to leverage theirbusiness and offer better service to their patients. All five offices will remain intact, onein the center of the city, one in the north, another in the south, and the remaining two onthe east and west sides. Each of the lead doctors would like to be able to see theirpatients at any of the sites, and access any of their patients' information from any of thesites.The office in the center of the city has a local area network (LAN) in the building that willrequire upgrades in software and hardware because all the equipment are all verydated. The upgrades will ensure the system capability and capacity that can provide acentralized solution to the data storage and management for the new partnershipamong all the five offices as well as meeting the additional information andcommunications needs for the distributed nature of the new partnership. Therefore, thisoffice will be the official central office that handles all the data communications for theentire business. Patient information and major services such as billing and insurancewill be hosted in this location for access by all sites.Currently, both the East and West offices also have an identical LAN that interconnectsthe PCs in a peer-to-peer mode on each site. Recently some work has been done to fixthe network connectivity problems between the two offices in preparation forreplacement of the SCO machine and terminals. It is believed that this fix would allowthe network connection between the two sites to be capable of the Internet services.Both the North and South offices are equipped with standalone personal computers ofdifferent ages. No networking capability exists within and between the sites. Each sitehas a dedicated computer that handles the billing and insurance using a 56Kbpsmodem. Each office keeps patient information and other related data on severalpersonal computers scattered in the offices, and all patients' records are manually filedwith the hardcopy printouts the in the old fashion. Each computer in both offices has alocally attached low-end printer.

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Scenario 1 The main offices of a manufacturing company are located in Texas and it is your task to design their network configuration. There are four main sites: Dallas HQ - this site is the Hub of the Frame Relay Circuit and it is also the main point of connection to the public Internet. Ft. Worth - this site contains the server farm for internal and external use. There are also some admin staff located who manage/monitor the servers to which they have direct contact. Austin - this site houses the main manufacturing and car assembly factory. The site at Building 2 now contains the new modernized factory and Building 1 will be transformed into offices in the future. Within Building 2 site there are two VLANs, one for Management Staff, and the other for Factory Staff. There is also a Wireless Access Point from which management staff connect PDA's whilst they are on the factory floor. As things stand, there has been no development at Building 1 and it only houses the Frame Relay connection back to Dallas_HQ. Houston - this site houses most of the administration staff and various departments. Since team such as Engineers, Marketing, & Factory Administrators are located here, then we must ensure 100% connectivity and redundancy. The offices consist of four floors, with each department on their own individual VLÁN.

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Chapter13: Internet And Distributed Application Services

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