NTC 415 - Week 3 - Individual & Team Assignment

Individual: Cloud Computing

Write a 1- to 2-page paper on cloud computing services, paying particular attention to cloud storage, security, and application services. Begin with a brief history of cloud computing, and relate your paper to a current business that is using these services.

Learning Team: Performance Assessment and Infrastructure Design

Evaluate performance requirements, along with protocols that will allow CloudCrushers to work efficiently for their customers. In addition, using Microsoft^® Visio^®, begin to design the infrastructure required within the offices and connectivity required globally from ISPs.

Complete the following sections of the final report this week, which must be 2 to 3 pages:

• Review possible options for connectivity performance needed for this industry.
• Determine the best protocols to use for meeting the performance goals.
• Explain how advanced routing protocols affect user network confidence.
• Utilize the requirements analysis process in deciding what performance requirements will be needed.
• Begin the network design using Microsoft^® Visio^® to show the network cable infrastructure and equipment necessary to institute needed performance for the LANs and WAN.