IT Infrastructure Competency 1 Analysis and Recommendations
BMIS 520 - IT Infrastructure
Liberty University
Executive Summary Outline
International Plastics Inc. as an established business needs to first document and establish
current business needs and requirements prior to planning upgrades or enhancements to
business infrastructure. There are four physical locations that comprise the business, one
headquarter site located in San Jose and one headquarter site located in China with
research and development and two production locations. Combined the four physical
locations have approximately 550 employees, there are approximately 35-50 computers, 35-
50 VOIP phones, a local NAS and several printers at each location. The windows computers
as any of the locations will be running Windows 7, and Ofice 2007. There is a high speed
WAN connection between each of the remote production locations and the headquarters
building, the connection between the China facility and the headquarters building is a
satellite link.
The headquarters buildings both have a T3 WAN connection to the outside network as well
as a Ka band satellite connection from the San Jose headquarters to the China headquarters
and vice versa. The headquarters locations consist of two primary physical groups, the fiber
research and development trunk and the administration ethernet trunk servicing the
remainder of the facility. The R&D section consists of 15 Mac Pro computers, 3 printers and
a plotter and connection to the main corporate ethernet trunk through a switch. The
primary ethernet trunk provides connectivity to several departments, corp, marketing,
finance and hr, across these departments there are 35 computers and 10 printers
connecting through 2 24 port switches, additionally there are 35 VOIP phones. The
remainder of the corporate headquarters consists of 2 VOIP routers on both the satellite
WAN connection and the T3 WAN connection, as well as several servers that function to
provide a NAS, Network, Exchange, and a Resource/Material requirements planning server.
Finally in order to ensure critical systems continue to function there is a UPS for both the
entire server room as well as the satellite base station. There is a firewall located behind the
T3 connection, however there is nothing protecting the satellite connection beyond the end
to end AES encryption.
The Albany location has a singular T2 connection to the WAN which provides its connectivity
to the corporate headquarters building. Inside the location there are 20 computers and a
printer wired into a 48 ports patch panel and then a 48 port switch, there is a 24 port switch
which provides connectivity to the manufacturing floor all cabling at this site is CATS. There
is a NAS, and local ERP server at this location to provide local data backup which is protected
by a UPS in case of power failure. There is a fiber connection between the local ERP server
and the NAS to facilitate faster data access. Finally there is firewall monitoring the T2 WAN
connection to provide some additional security to the local network. The Pontiac location is
very similarly built to the Albany location with the exception that it is a larger network. The
Pontiac location has 45 computers running the same Windows 7 and Ofice 2007 along with
4 printers.
Running a business in an ever forward moving technological world ensuring that a business
is is keeping up with technology has become critical to maintaining and improving business
performance. "The advancement of technology and the changing global business
environment have compelled the transformation of a warehouse" tiKumar et al., 2021, p.
3470). Utilizing enhances tools for tracking warehouse inventory, production and progress,
will move the business towards increased performance and eficiency as data transparency
increases. This increased insight into production and stocks will lead to increased
manufacturing eficiency while also reducing waste and cost through more informed
ordering of materials and supplies. Beyond these changes and advancements, simply
upgrading the equipment that is on site will greatly improve eficiency. Upgrading the
infrastructure to allow for greater data transfer speeds between employee computers and
local storage, means it takes less time to open and save documents saved on the local NAS,
increased backup speeds, less time waiting for calculations to occur and applications to
load. All of these time savings accumulate into increased eficiency and performance. Adding
new cloud based solution into the new IT infrastructure will allow for future growth in
business compute needs, as well as allowing for a tertiary data backup beyond the local and
main data storage locations at the corporate headquarters. This is another example of how
upgrading the infrastructure will allow for the business to become more productive by
taking advantage of additional tools like cloud computing. "Cloud computing information
centers give high extensibility, achievement, and approach to effective limitless computing
capacity to application suppliers" tiNazir et al. 2021, p. 3537)
Recommendations
The recommendation with the most significant impact will be migrating from
100baseTtilEEE 802.3u) to 1000baseT ti IEEE 802.3ab) and properly segmenting the
network. Based on the current state and structure of the network at each location the most
significant data bottleneck. Along with the data throughput there is also significant added
security risks to each network due to how they are structured and unsegmented.
The biggest advantages in migrating to a newer ethernet protocol and associated speed, will
be the improved data throughput. "However, the interconnection of dissimilar LANs and
devices over a high-speed backbone network can create congestion at a destination LAN
tioutput) gateway when more than one device or LAN attempt is made to communicate
simultaneously with the same device or LAN. We address the issue of congestion avoidance
in LANs interconnected by a high-speed backbone" tiHassanein 1997, p. 261). Through
migration to the 1000baseT standard and moving from a 100mbps to a 1000mbps
backbone, the ten fold increase in speed will prevent and or mitigate the majority of the
congestion. In combination with a network restructure to isolate like devices to their own
LAN, this will further prevent the congestion mentioned by Hassanein.
The most significant disadvantage to adopting this standard will be the cost and time
involved with such an upgrade. If building a new network there would not be a significant
difference in cost as most all newer devices have already adopted 1000baseT standard for
network connectivity. When considering International Plastics Inc. it may prove necessary to
not only upgrade and replace all switches, and routers, it may also be necessary to replace
some or all of the workstation computers if they do not have 1000baseT network cards or
purchase cards for each device. Additionally, even though CAT5 cabling is capable of
delivering 1000mbps speeds, depending on the length of the runs and cable degradation
since installation it may be necessary to replace significant amount of the cabling to avoid
loss in connectivity and speed. Finally attributing to the cost will be the need for additional
switches, patch panels, routers and cabling in order to facilitate the segmentation of the
new network infrastructure proposed.
Despite the disadvantage of cost, upgrading the LAN backbone at each site would provide
the most direct and significant impact for business performance. Each location has between
25 and 50 employees utilizing computers and around 25 VOIP phones. Provided an
estimated required bandwidth of 5Mbps per VOIP phone the 100Mbps connection could be
completely saturated if all 25 phones where in use. Although this is unlikely, in combination
with bandwidth needs of the computers and other devices a 100mbps connection is simply
not enough. Through this upgrade, it is expected that employees will have better call quality
leading to less repetition as well as faster access to LAN services such and exchange, and
NAS. All of these small improvements result in significant increases in eficiency and
productivity.
The Albany location has a singular T2 connection to the WAN which provides its connectivity
to the corporate headquarters building. Inside the location there are 20 computers and a
printer wired into a 48 ports patch panel and then a 48 port switch, there is a 24 port switch
which provides connectivity to the manufacturing floor all cabling at this site is CATS. There
is a NAS, and local ERP server at this location to provide local data backup which is protected
by a UPS in case of power failure. There is a fiber connection between the local ERP server
and the NAS to facilitate faster data access. Finally there is firewall monitoring the T2 WAN
connection to provide some additional security to the local network. The Pontiac location is
very similarly built to the Albany location with the exception that it is a larger network. The
Pontiac location has 45 computers running the same Windows 7 and Ofice 2007 along with
4 printers.
Running a business in an ever forward moving technological world ensuring that a business
is is keeping up with technology has become critical to maintaining and improving business
performance. "The advancement of technology and the changing global business
environment have compelled the transformation of a warehouse" tiKumar et al., 2021, p.
3470). Utilizing enhances tools for tracking warehouse inventory, production and progress,
will move the business towards increased performance and eficiency as data transparency
increases. This increased insight into production and stocks will lead to increased
manufacturing eficiency while also reducing waste and cost through more informed
ordering of materials and supplies. Beyond these changes and advancements, simply
upgrading the equipment that is on site will greatly improve eficiency. Upgrading the
infrastructure to allow for greater data transfer speeds between employee computers and
local storage, means it takes less time to open and save documents saved on the local NAS,
increased backup speeds, less time waiting for calculations to occur and applications to
load. All of these time savings accumulate into increased eficiency and performance. Adding
new cloud based solution into the new IT infrastructure will allow for future growth in
business compute needs, as well as allowing for a tertiary data backup beyond the local and
main data storage locations at the corporate headquarters. This is another example of how
upgrading the infrastructure will allow for the business to become more productive by
taking advantage of additional tools like cloud computing. "Cloud computing information
centers give high extensibility, achievement, and approach to effective limitless computing
capacity to application suppliers" tiNazir et al. 2021, p. 3537)
Recommendations
The recommendation with the most significant impact will be migrating from
100baseTtilEEE 802.3u) to 1000baseT ti IEEE 802.3ab) and properly segmenting the
network. Based on the current state and structure of the network at each location the most
significant data bottleneck. Along with the data throughput there is also significant added
security risks to each network due to how they are structured and unsegmented.
The biggest advantages in migrating to a newer ethernet protocol and associated speed, will
be the improved data throughput. "However, the interconnection of dissimilar LANs and
devices over a high-speed backbone network can create congestion at a destination LAN
tioutput) gateway when more than one device or LAN attempt is made to communicate
simultaneously with the same device or LAN. We address the issue of congestion avoidance
in LANs interconnected by a high-speed backbone" tiHassanein 1997, p. 261). Through
migration to the 1000baseT standard and moving from a 100mbps to a 1000mbps
backbone, the ten fold increase in speed will prevent and or mitigate the majority of the
congestion. In combination with a network restructure to isolate like devices to their own
LAN, this will further prevent the congestion mentioned by Hassanein.
The most significant disadvantage to adopting this standard will be the cost and time
involved with such an upgrade. If building a new network there would not be a significant
difference in cost as most all newer devices have already adopted 1000baseT standard for
network connectivity. When considering International Plastics Inc. it may prove necessary to
not only upgrade and replace all switches, and routers, it may also be necessary to replace
some or all of the workstation computers if they do not have 1000baseT network cards or
purchase cards for each device. Additionally, even though CAT5 cabling is capable of
delivering 1000mbps speeds, depending on the length of the runs and cable degradation
since installation it may be necessary to replace significant amount of the cabling to avoid
loss in connectivity and speed. Finally attributing to the cost will be the need for additional
switches, patch panels, routers and cabling in order to facilitate the segmentation of the
new network infrastructure proposed.
Despite the disadvantage of cost, upgrading the LAN backbone at each site would provide
the most direct and significant impact for business performance. Each location has between
25 and 50 employees utilizing computers and around 25 VOIP phones. Provided an
estimated required bandwidth of 5Mbps per VOIP phone the 100Mbps connection could be
completely saturated if all 25 phones where in use. Although this is unlikely, in combination
with bandwidth needs of the computers and other devices a 100mbps connection is simply
not enough. Through this upgrade, it is expected that employees will have better call quality
leading to less repetition as well as faster access to LAN services such and exchange, and
NAS. All of these small improvements result in significant increases in eficiency and
productivity.
The Albany location has a singular T2 connection to the WAN which provides its connectivity
to the corporate headquarters building. Inside the location there are 20 computers and a
printer wired into a 48 ports patch panel and then a 48 port switch, there is a 24 port switch
which provides connectivity to the manufacturing floor all cabling at this site is CATS. There
is a NAS, and local ERP server at this location to provide local data backup which is protected
by a UPS in case of power failure. There is a fiber connection between the local ERP server
and the NAS to facilitate faster data access. Finally there is firewall monitoring the T2 WAN
connection to provide some additional security to the local network. The Pontiac location is
very similarly built to the Albany location with the exception that it is a larger network. The
Pontiac location has 45 computers running the same Windows 7 and Ofice 2007 along with
4 printers.
Running a business in an ever forward moving technological world ensuring that a business
is is keeping up with technology has become critical to maintaining and improving business
performance. "The advancement of technology and the changing global business
environment have compelled the transformation of a warehouse" tiKumar et al., 2021, p.
3470). Utilizing enhances tools for tracking warehouse inventory, production and progress,
will move the business towards increased performance and eficiency as data transparency
increases. This increased insight into production and stocks will lead to increased
manufacturing eficiency while also reducing waste and cost through more informed
ordering of materials and supplies. Beyond these changes and advancements, simply
upgrading the equipment that is on site will greatly improve eficiency. Upgrading the
infrastructure to allow for greater data transfer speeds between employee computers and
local storage, means it takes less time to open and save documents saved on the local NAS,
increased backup speeds, less time waiting for calculations to occur and applications to
load. All of these time savings accumulate into increased eficiency and performance. Adding
new cloud based solution into the new IT infrastructure will allow for future growth in
business compute needs, as well as allowing for a tertiary data backup beyond the local and
main data storage locations at the corporate headquarters. This is another example of how
upgrading the infrastructure will allow for the business to become more productive by
taking advantage of additional tools like cloud computing. "Cloud computing information
centers give high extensibility, achievement, and approach to effective limitless computing
capacity to application suppliers" tiNazir et al. 2021, p. 3537)
Recommendations
The recommendation with the most significant impact will be migrating from
100baseTtilEEE 802.3u) to 1000baseT ti IEEE 802.3ab) and properly segmenting the
network. Based on the current state and structure of the network at each location the most
significant data bottleneck. Along with the data throughput there is also significant added
security risks to each network due to how they are structured and unsegmented.
The biggest advantages in migrating to a newer ethernet protocol and associated speed, will
be the improved data throughput. "However, the interconnection of dissimilar LANs and
devices over a high-speed backbone network can create congestion at a destination LAN
tioutput) gateway when more than one device or LAN attempt is made to communicate
simultaneously with the same device or LAN. We address the issue of congestion avoidance
in LANs interconnected by a high-speed backbone" tiHassanein 1997, p. 261). Through
migration to the 1000baseT standard and moving from a 100mbps to a 1000mbps
backbone, the ten fold increase in speed will prevent and or mitigate the majority of the
congestion. In combination with a network restructure to isolate like devices to their own
LAN, this will further prevent the congestion mentioned by Hassanein.
The most significant disadvantage to adopting this standard will be the cost and time
involved with such an upgrade. If building a new network there would not be a significant
difference in cost as most all newer devices have already adopted 1000baseT standard for
network connectivity. When considering International Plastics Inc. it may prove necessary to
not only upgrade and replace all switches, and routers, it may also be necessary to replace
some or all of the workstation computers if they do not have 1000baseT network cards or
purchase cards for each device. Additionally, even though CAT5 cabling is capable of
delivering 1000mbps speeds, depending on the length of the runs and cable degradation
since installation it may be necessary to replace significant amount of the cabling to avoid
loss in connectivity and speed. Finally attributing to the cost will be the need for additional
switches, patch panels, routers and cabling in order to facilitate the segmentation of the
new network infrastructure proposed.
Despite the disadvantage of cost, upgrading the LAN backbone at each site would provide
the most direct and significant impact for business performance. Each location has between
25 and 50 employees utilizing computers and around 25 VOIP phones. Provided an
estimated required bandwidth of 5Mbps per VOIP phone the 100Mbps connection could be
completely saturated if all 25 phones where in use. Although this is unlikely, in combination
with bandwidth needs of the computers and other devices a 100mbps connection is simply
not enough. Through this upgrade, it is expected that employees will have better call quality
leading to less repetition as well as faster access to LAN services such and exchange, and
NAS. All of these small improvements result in significant increases in eficiency and
productivity.
The Albany location has a singular T2 connection to the WAN which provides its connectivity
to the corporate headquarters building. Inside the location there are 20 computers and a
printer wired into a 48 ports patch panel and then a 48 port switch, there is a 24 port switch
which provides connectivity to the manufacturing floor all cabling at this site is CATS. There
is a NAS, and local ERP server at this location to provide local data backup which is protected
by a UPS in case of power failure. There is a fiber connection between the local ERP server
and the NAS to facilitate faster data access. Finally there is firewall monitoring the T2 WAN
connection to provide some additional security to the local network. The Pontiac location is
very similarly built to the Albany location with the exception that it is a larger network. The
Pontiac location has 45 computers running the same Windows 7 and Ofice 2007 along with
4 printers.
Running a business in an ever forward moving technological world ensuring that a business
is is keeping up with technology has become critical to maintaining and improving business
performance. "The advancement of technology and the changing global business
environment have compelled the transformation of a warehouse" tiKumar et al., 2021, p.
3470). Utilizing enhances tools for tracking warehouse inventory, production and progress,
will move the business towards increased performance and eficiency as data transparency
increases. This increased insight into production and stocks will lead to increased
manufacturing eficiency while also reducing waste and cost through more informed
ordering of materials and supplies. Beyond these changes and advancements, simply
upgrading the equipment that is on site will greatly improve eficiency. Upgrading the
infrastructure to allow for greater data transfer speeds between employee computers and
local storage, means it takes less time to open and save documents saved on the local NAS,
increased backup speeds, less time waiting for calculations to occur and applications to
load. All of these time savings accumulate into increased eficiency and performance. Adding
new cloud based solution into the new IT infrastructure will allow for future growth in
business compute needs, as well as allowing for a tertiary data backup beyond the local and
main data storage locations at the corporate headquarters. This is another example of how
upgrading the infrastructure will allow for the business to become more productive by
taking advantage of additional tools like cloud computing. "Cloud computing information
centers give high extensibility, achievement, and approach to effective limitless computing
capacity to application suppliers" tiNazir et al. 2021, p. 3537)
Recommendations
The recommendation with the most significant impact will be migrating from
100baseTtilEEE 802.3u) to 1000baseT ti IEEE 802.3ab) and properly segmenting the
network. Based on the current state and structure of the network at each location the most
significant data bottleneck. Along with the data throughput there is also significant added
security risks to each network due to how they are structured and unsegmented.
The biggest advantages in migrating to a newer ethernet protocol and associated speed, will
be the improved data throughput. "However, the interconnection of dissimilar LANs and
devices over a high-speed backbone network can create congestion at a destination LAN
tioutput) gateway when more than one device or LAN attempt is made to communicate
simultaneously with the same device or LAN. We address the issue of congestion avoidance
in LANs interconnected by a high-speed backbone" tiHassanein 1997, p. 261). Through
migration to the 1000baseT standard and moving from a 100mbps to a 1000mbps
backbone, the ten fold increase in speed will prevent and or mitigate the majority of the
congestion. In combination with a network restructure to isolate like devices to their own
LAN, this will further prevent the congestion mentioned by Hassanein.
The most significant disadvantage to adopting this standard will be the cost and time
involved with such an upgrade. If building a new network there would not be a significant
difference in cost as most all newer devices have already adopted 1000baseT standard for
network connectivity. When considering International Plastics Inc. it may prove necessary to
not only upgrade and replace all switches, and routers, it may also be necessary to replace
some or all of the workstation computers if they do not have 1000baseT network cards or
purchase cards for each device. Additionally, even though CAT5 cabling is capable of
delivering 1000mbps speeds, depending on the length of the runs and cable degradation
since installation it may be necessary to replace significant amount of the cabling to avoid
loss in connectivity and speed. Finally attributing to the cost will be the need for additional
switches, patch panels, routers and cabling in order to facilitate the segmentation of the
new network infrastructure proposed.
Despite the disadvantage of cost, upgrading the LAN backbone at each site would provide
the most direct and significant impact for business performance. Each location has between
25 and 50 employees utilizing computers and around 25 VOIP phones. Provided an
estimated required bandwidth of 5Mbps per VOIP phone the 100Mbps connection could be
completely saturated if all 25 phones where in use. Although this is unlikely, in combination
with bandwidth needs of the computers and other devices a 100mbps connection is simply
not enough. Through this upgrade, it is expected that employees will have better call quality
leading to less repetition as well as faster access to LAN services such and exchange, and
NAS. All of these small improvements result in significant increases in eficiency and
productivity.
The Albany location has a singular T2 connection to the WAN which provides its connectivity
to the corporate headquarters building. Inside the location there are 20 computers and a
printer wired into a 48 ports patch panel and then a 48 port switch, there is a 24 port switch
which provides connectivity to the manufacturing floor all cabling at this site is CATS. There
is a NAS, and local ERP server at this location to provide local data backup which is protected
by a UPS in case of power failure. There is a fiber connection between the local ERP server
and the NAS to facilitate faster data access. Finally there is firewall monitoring the T2 WAN
connection to provide some additional security to the local network. The Pontiac location is
very similarly built to the Albany location with the exception that it is a larger network. The
Pontiac location has 45 computers running the same Windows 7 and Ofice 2007 along with
4 printers.
Running a business in an ever forward moving technological world ensuring that a business
is is keeping up with technology has become critical to maintaining and improving business
performance. "The advancement of technology and the changing global business
environment have compelled the transformation of a warehouse" tiKumar et al., 2021, p.
3470). Utilizing enhances tools for tracking warehouse inventory, production and progress,
will move the business towards increased performance and eficiency as data transparency
increases. This increased insight into production and stocks will lead to increased
manufacturing eficiency while also reducing waste and cost through more informed
ordering of materials and supplies. Beyond these changes and advancements, simply
upgrading the equipment that is on site will greatly improve eficiency. Upgrading the
infrastructure to allow for greater data transfer speeds between employee computers and
local storage, means it takes less time to open and save documents saved on the local NAS,
increased backup speeds, less time waiting for calculations to occur and applications to
load. All of these time savings accumulate into increased eficiency and performance. Adding
new cloud based solution into the new IT infrastructure will allow for future growth in
business compute needs, as well as allowing for a tertiary data backup beyond the local and
main data storage locations at the corporate headquarters. This is another example of how
upgrading the infrastructure will allow for the business to become more productive by
taking advantage of additional tools like cloud computing. "Cloud computing information
centers give high extensibility, achievement, and approach to effective limitless computing
capacity to application suppliers" tiNazir et al. 2021, p. 3537)
Recommendations
The recommendation with the most significant impact will be migrating from
100baseTtilEEE 802.3u) to 1000baseT ti IEEE 802.3ab) and properly segmenting the
network. Based on the current state and structure of the network at each location the most
significant data bottleneck. Along with the data throughput there is also significant added
security risks to each network due to how they are structured and unsegmented.
The biggest advantages in migrating to a newer ethernet protocol and associated speed, will
be the improved data throughput. "However, the interconnection of dissimilar LANs and
devices over a high-speed backbone network can create congestion at a destination LAN
tioutput) gateway when more than one device or LAN attempt is made to communicate
simultaneously with the same device or LAN. We address the issue of congestion avoidance
in LANs interconnected by a high-speed backbone" tiHassanein 1997, p. 261). Through
migration to the 1000baseT standard and moving from a 100mbps to a 1000mbps
backbone, the ten fold increase in speed will prevent and or mitigate the majority of the
congestion. In combination with a network restructure to isolate like devices to their own
LAN, this will further prevent the congestion mentioned by Hassanein.
The most significant disadvantage to adopting this standard will be the cost and time
involved with such an upgrade. If building a new network there would not be a significant
difference in cost as most all newer devices have already adopted 1000baseT standard for
network connectivity. When considering International Plastics Inc. it may prove necessary to
not only upgrade and replace all switches, and routers, it may also be necessary to replace
some or all of the workstation computers if they do not have 1000baseT network cards or
purchase cards for each device. Additionally, even though CAT5 cabling is capable of
delivering 1000mbps speeds, depending on the length of the runs and cable degradation
since installation it may be necessary to replace significant amount of the cabling to avoid
loss in connectivity and speed. Finally attributing to the cost will be the need for additional
switches, patch panels, routers and cabling in order to facilitate the segmentation of the
new network infrastructure proposed.
Despite the disadvantage of cost, upgrading the LAN backbone at each site would provide
the most direct and significant impact for business performance. Each location has between
25 and 50 employees utilizing computers and around 25 VOIP phones. Provided an
estimated required bandwidth of 5Mbps per VOIP phone the 100Mbps connection could be
completely saturated if all 25 phones where in use. Although this is unlikely, in combination
with bandwidth needs of the computers and other devices a 100mbps connection is simply
not enough. Through this upgrade, it is expected that employees will have better call quality
leading to less repetition as well as faster access to LAN services such and exchange, and
NAS. All of these small improvements result in significant increases in eficiency and
productivity.
The Albany location has a singular T2 connection to the WAN which provides its connectivity
to the corporate headquarters building. Inside the location there are 20 computers and a
printer wired into a 48 ports patch panel and then a 48 port switch, there is a 24 port switch
which provides connectivity to the manufacturing floor all cabling at this site is CATS. There
is a NAS, and local ERP server at this location to provide local data backup which is protected
by a UPS in case of power failure. There is a fiber connection between the local ERP server
and the NAS to facilitate faster data access. Finally there is firewall monitoring the T2 WAN
connection to provide some additional security to the local network. The Pontiac location is
very similarly built to the Albany location with the exception that it is a larger network. The
Pontiac location has 45 computers running the same Windows 7 and Ofice 2007 along with
4 printers.
Running a business in an ever forward moving technological world ensuring that a business
is is keeping up with technology has become critical to maintaining and improving business
performance. "The advancement of technology and the changing global business
environment have compelled the transformation of a warehouse" tiKumar et al., 2021, p.
3470). Utilizing enhances tools for tracking warehouse inventory, production and progress,
will move the business towards increased performance and eficiency as data transparency
increases. This increased insight into production and stocks will lead to increased
manufacturing eficiency while also reducing waste and cost through more informed
ordering of materials and supplies. Beyond these changes and advancements, simply
upgrading the equipment that is on site will greatly improve eficiency. Upgrading the
infrastructure to allow for greater data transfer speeds between employee computers and
local storage, means it takes less time to open and save documents saved on the local NAS,
increased backup speeds, less time waiting for calculations to occur and applications to
load. All of these time savings accumulate into increased eficiency and performance. Adding
new cloud based solution into the new IT infrastructure will allow for future growth in
business compute needs, as well as allowing for a tertiary data backup beyond the local and
main data storage locations at the corporate headquarters. This is another example of how
upgrading the infrastructure will allow for the business to become more productive by
taking advantage of additional tools like cloud computing. "Cloud computing information
centers give high extensibility, achievement, and approach to effective limitless computing
capacity to application suppliers" tiNazir et al. 2021, p. 3537)
Recommendations
The recommendation with the most significant impact will be migrating from
100baseTtilEEE 802.3u) to 1000baseT ti IEEE 802.3ab) and properly segmenting the
network. Based on the current state and structure of the network at each location the most
significant data bottleneck. Along with the data throughput there is also significant added
security risks to each network due to how they are structured and unsegmented.
The biggest advantages in migrating to a newer ethernet protocol and associated speed, will
be the improved data throughput. "However, the interconnection of dissimilar LANs and
devices over a high-speed backbone network can create congestion at a destination LAN
tioutput) gateway when more than one device or LAN attempt is made to communicate
simultaneously with the same device or LAN. We address the issue of congestion avoidance
in LANs interconnected by a high-speed backbone" tiHassanein 1997, p. 261). Through
migration to the 1000baseT standard and moving from a 100mbps to a 1000mbps
backbone, the ten fold increase in speed will prevent and or mitigate the majority of the
congestion. In combination with a network restructure to isolate like devices to their own
LAN, this will further prevent the congestion mentioned by Hassanein.
The most significant disadvantage to adopting this standard will be the cost and time
involved with such an upgrade. If building a new network there would not be a significant
difference in cost as most all newer devices have already adopted 1000baseT standard for
network connectivity. When considering International Plastics Inc. it may prove necessary to
not only upgrade and replace all switches, and routers, it may also be necessary to replace
some or all of the workstation computers if they do not have 1000baseT network cards or
purchase cards for each device. Additionally, even though CAT5 cabling is capable of
delivering 1000mbps speeds, depending on the length of the runs and cable degradation
since installation it may be necessary to replace significant amount of the cabling to avoid
loss in connectivity and speed. Finally attributing to the cost will be the need for additional
switches, patch panels, routers and cabling in order to facilitate the segmentation of the
new network infrastructure proposed.
Despite the disadvantage of cost, upgrading the LAN backbone at each site would provide
the most direct and significant impact for business performance. Each location has between
25 and 50 employees utilizing computers and around 25 VOIP phones. Provided an
estimated required bandwidth of 5Mbps per VOIP phone the 100Mbps connection could be
completely saturated if all 25 phones where in use. Although this is unlikely, in combination
with bandwidth needs of the computers and other devices a 100mbps connection is simply
not enough. Through this upgrade, it is expected that employees will have better call quality
leading to less repetition as well as faster access to LAN services such and exchange, and
NAS. All of these small improvements result in significant increases in eficiency and
productivity.
The Albany location has a singular T2 connection to the WAN which provides its connectivity
to the corporate headquarters building. Inside the location there are 20 computers and a
printer wired into a 48 ports patch panel and then a 48 port switch, there is a 24 port switch
which provides connectivity to the manufacturing floor all cabling at this site is CATS. There
is a NAS, and local ERP server at this location to provide local data backup which is protected
by a UPS in case of power failure. There is a fiber connection between the local ERP server
and the NAS to facilitate faster data access. Finally there is firewall monitoring the T2 WAN
connection to provide some additional security to the local network. The Pontiac location is
very similarly built to the Albany location with the exception that it is a larger network. The
Pontiac location has 45 computers running the same Windows 7 and Ofice 2007 along with
4 printers.
Running a business in an ever forward moving technological world ensuring that a business
is is keeping up with technology has become critical to maintaining and improving business
performance. "The advancement of technology and the changing global business
environment have compelled the transformation of a warehouse" tiKumar et al., 2021, p.
3470). Utilizing enhances tools for tracking warehouse inventory, production and progress,
will move the business towards increased performance and eficiency as data transparency
increases. This increased insight into production and stocks will lead to increased
manufacturing eficiency while also reducing waste and cost through more informed
ordering of materials and supplies. Beyond these changes and advancements, simply
upgrading the equipment that is on site will greatly improve eficiency. Upgrading the
infrastructure to allow for greater data transfer speeds between employee computers and
local storage, means it takes less time to open and save documents saved on the local NAS,
increased backup speeds, less time waiting for calculations to occur and applications to
load. All of these time savings accumulate into increased eficiency and performance. Adding
new cloud based solution into the new IT infrastructure will allow for future growth in
business compute needs, as well as allowing for a tertiary data backup beyond the local and
main data storage locations at the corporate headquarters. This is another example of how
upgrading the infrastructure will allow for the business to become more productive by
taking advantage of additional tools like cloud computing. "Cloud computing information
centers give high extensibility, achievement, and approach to effective limitless computing
capacity to application suppliers" tiNazir et al. 2021, p. 3537)
Recommendations
The recommendation with the most significant impact will be migrating from
100baseTtilEEE 802.3u) to 1000baseT ti IEEE 802.3ab) and properly segmenting the
network. Based on the current state and structure of the network at each location the most
significant data bottleneck. Along with the data throughput there is also significant added
security risks to each network due to how they are structured and unsegmented.
The biggest advantages in migrating to a newer ethernet protocol and associated speed, will
be the improved data throughput. "However, the interconnection of dissimilar LANs and
devices over a high-speed backbone network can create congestion at a destination LAN
tioutput) gateway when more than one device or LAN attempt is made to communicate
simultaneously with the same device or LAN. We address the issue of congestion avoidance
in LANs interconnected by a high-speed backbone" tiHassanein 1997, p. 261). Through
migration to the 1000baseT standard and moving from a 100mbps to a 1000mbps
backbone, the ten fold increase in speed will prevent and or mitigate the majority of the
congestion. In combination with a network restructure to isolate like devices to their own
LAN, this will further prevent the congestion mentioned by Hassanein.
The most significant disadvantage to adopting this standard will be the cost and time
involved with such an upgrade. If building a new network there would not be a significant
difference in cost as most all newer devices have already adopted 1000baseT standard for
network connectivity. When considering International Plastics Inc. it may prove necessary to
not only upgrade and replace all switches, and routers, it may also be necessary to replace
some or all of the workstation computers if they do not have 1000baseT network cards or
purchase cards for each device. Additionally, even though CAT5 cabling is capable of
delivering 1000mbps speeds, depending on the length of the runs and cable degradation
since installation it may be necessary to replace significant amount of the cabling to avoid
loss in connectivity and speed. Finally attributing to the cost will be the need for additional
switches, patch panels, routers and cabling in order to facilitate the segmentation of the
new network infrastructure proposed.
Despite the disadvantage of cost, upgrading the LAN backbone at each site would provide
the most direct and significant impact for business performance. Each location has between
25 and 50 employees utilizing computers and around 25 VOIP phones. Provided an
estimated required bandwidth of 5Mbps per VOIP phone the 100Mbps connection could be
completely saturated if all 25 phones where in use. Although this is unlikely, in combination
with bandwidth needs of the computers and other devices a 100mbps connection is simply
not enough. Through this upgrade, it is expected that employees will have better call quality
leading to less repetition as well as faster access to LAN services such and exchange, and
NAS. All of these small improvements result in significant increases in eficiency and
productivity.
The Albany location has a singular T2 connection to the WAN which provides its connectivity
to the corporate headquarters building. Inside the location there are 20 computers and a
printer wired into a 48 ports patch panel and then a 48 port switch, there is a 24 port switch
which provides connectivity to the manufacturing floor all cabling at this site is CATS. There
is a NAS, and local ERP server at this location to provide local data backup which is protected
by a UPS in case of power failure. There is a fiber connection between the local ERP server
and the NAS to facilitate faster data access. Finally there is firewall monitoring the T2 WAN
connection to provide some additional security to the local network. The Pontiac location is
very similarly built to the Albany location with the exception that it is a larger network. The
Pontiac location has 45 computers running the same Windows 7 and Ofice 2007 along with
4 printers.
Running a business in an ever forward moving technological world ensuring that a business
is is keeping up with technology has become critical to maintaining and improving business
performance. "The advancement of technology and the changing global business
environment have compelled the transformation of a warehouse" tiKumar et al., 2021, p.
3470). Utilizing enhances tools for tracking warehouse inventory, production and progress,
will move the business towards increased performance and eficiency as data transparency
increases. This increased insight into production and stocks will lead to increased
manufacturing eficiency while also reducing waste and cost through more informed
ordering of materials and supplies. Beyond these changes and advancements, simply
upgrading the equipment that is on site will greatly improve eficiency. Upgrading the
infrastructure to allow for greater data transfer speeds between employee computers and
local storage, means it takes less time to open and save documents saved on the local NAS,
increased backup speeds, less time waiting for calculations to occur and applications to
load. All of these time savings accumulate into increased eficiency and performance. Adding
new cloud based solution into the new IT infrastructure will allow for future growth in
business compute needs, as well as allowing for a tertiary data backup beyond the local and
main data storage locations at the corporate headquarters. This is another example of how
upgrading the infrastructure will allow for the business to become more productive by
taking advantage of additional tools like cloud computing. "Cloud computing information
centers give high extensibility, achievement, and approach to effective limitless computing
capacity to application suppliers" tiNazir et al. 2021, p. 3537)
Recommendations
The recommendation with the most significant impact will be migrating from
100baseTtilEEE 802.3u) to 1000baseT ti IEEE 802.3ab) and properly segmenting the
network. Based on the current state and structure of the network at each location the most
significant data bottleneck. Along with the data throughput there is also significant added
security risks to each network due to how they are structured and unsegmented.
The biggest advantages in migrating to a newer ethernet protocol and associated speed, will
be the improved data throughput. "However, the interconnection of dissimilar LANs and
devices over a high-speed backbone network can create congestion at a destination LAN
tioutput) gateway when more than one device or LAN attempt is made to communicate
simultaneously with the same device or LAN. We address the issue of congestion avoidance
in LANs interconnected by a high-speed backbone" tiHassanein 1997, p. 261). Through
migration to the 1000baseT standard and moving from a 100mbps to a 1000mbps
backbone, the ten fold increase in speed will prevent and or mitigate the majority of the
congestion. In combination with a network restructure to isolate like devices to their own
LAN, this will further prevent the congestion mentioned by Hassanein.
The most significant disadvantage to adopting this standard will be the cost and time
involved with such an upgrade. If building a new network there would not be a significant
difference in cost as most all newer devices have already adopted 1000baseT standard for
network connectivity. When considering International Plastics Inc. it may prove necessary to
not only upgrade and replace all switches, and routers, it may also be necessary to replace
some or all of the workstation computers if they do not have 1000baseT network cards or
purchase cards for each device. Additionally, even though CAT5 cabling is capable of
delivering 1000mbps speeds, depending on the length of the runs and cable degradation
since installation it may be necessary to replace significant amount of the cabling to avoid
loss in connectivity and speed. Finally attributing to the cost will be the need for additional
switches, patch panels, routers and cabling in order to facilitate the segmentation of the
new network infrastructure proposed.
Despite the disadvantage of cost, upgrading the LAN backbone at each site would provide
the most direct and significant impact for business performance. Each location has between
25 and 50 employees utilizing computers and around 25 VOIP phones. Provided an
estimated required bandwidth of 5Mbps per VOIP phone the 100Mbps connection could be
completely saturated if all 25 phones where in use. Although this is unlikely, in combination
with bandwidth needs of the computers and other devices a 100mbps connection is simply
not enough. Through this upgrade, it is expected that employees will have better call quality
leading to less repetition as well as faster access to LAN services such and exchange, and
NAS. All of these small improvements result in significant increases in eficiency and
productivity.
The Albany location has a singular T2 connection to the WAN which provides its connectivity
to the corporate headquarters building. Inside the location there are 20 computers and a
printer wired into a 48 ports patch panel and then a 48 port switch, there is a 24 port switch
which provides connectivity to the manufacturing floor all cabling at this site is CATS. There
is a NAS, and local ERP server at this location to provide local data backup which is protected
by a UPS in case of power failure. There is a fiber connection between the local ERP server
and the NAS to facilitate faster data access. Finally there is firewall monitoring the T2 WAN
connection to provide some additional security to the local network. The Pontiac location is
very similarly built to the Albany location with the exception that it is a larger network. The
Pontiac location has 45 computers running the same Windows 7 and Ofice 2007 along with
4 printers.
Running a business in an ever forward moving technological world ensuring that a business
is is keeping up with technology has become critical to maintaining and improving business
performance. "The advancement of technology and the changing global business
environment have compelled the transformation of a warehouse" tiKumar et al., 2021, p.
3470). Utilizing enhances tools for tracking warehouse inventory, production and progress,
will move the business towards increased performance and eficiency as data transparency
increases. This increased insight into production and stocks will lead to increased
manufacturing eficiency while also reducing waste and cost through more informed
ordering of materials and supplies. Beyond these changes and advancements, simply
upgrading the equipment that is on site will greatly improve eficiency. Upgrading the
infrastructure to allow for greater data transfer speeds between employee computers and
local storage, means it takes less time to open and save documents saved on the local NAS,
increased backup speeds, less time waiting for calculations to occur and applications to
load. All of these time savings accumulate into increased eficiency and performance. Adding
new cloud based solution into the new IT infrastructure will allow for future growth in
business compute needs, as well as allowing for a tertiary data backup beyond the local and
main data storage locations at the corporate headquarters. This is another example of how
upgrading the infrastructure will allow for the business to become more productive by
taking advantage of additional tools like cloud computing. "Cloud computing information
centers give high extensibility, achievement, and approach to effective limitless computing
capacity to application suppliers" tiNazir et al. 2021, p. 3537)
Recommendations
The recommendation with the most significant impact will be migrating from
100baseTtilEEE 802.3u) to 1000baseT ti IEEE 802.3ab) and properly segmenting the
network. Based on the current state and structure of the network at each location the most
significant data bottleneck. Along with the data throughput there is also significant added
security risks to each network due to how they are structured and unsegmented.
The biggest advantages in migrating to a newer ethernet protocol and associated speed, will
be the improved data throughput. "However, the interconnection of dissimilar LANs and
devices over a high-speed backbone network can create congestion at a destination LAN
tioutput) gateway when more than one device or LAN attempt is made to communicate
simultaneously with the same device or LAN. We address the issue of congestion avoidance
in LANs interconnected by a high-speed backbone" tiHassanein 1997, p. 261). Through
migration to the 1000baseT standard and moving from a 100mbps to a 1000mbps
backbone, the ten fold increase in speed will prevent and or mitigate the majority of the
congestion. In combination with a network restructure to isolate like devices to their own
LAN, this will further prevent the congestion mentioned by Hassanein.
The most significant disadvantage to adopting this standard will be the cost and time
involved with such an upgrade. If building a new network there would not be a significant
difference in cost as most all newer devices have already adopted 1000baseT standard for
network connectivity. When considering International Plastics Inc. it may prove necessary to
not only upgrade and replace all switches, and routers, it may also be necessary to replace
some or all of the workstation computers if they do not have 1000baseT network cards or
purchase cards for each device. Additionally, even though CAT5 cabling is capable of
delivering 1000mbps speeds, depending on the length of the runs and cable degradation
since installation it may be necessary to replace significant amount of the cabling to avoid
loss in connectivity and speed. Finally attributing to the cost will be the need for additional
switches, patch panels, routers and cabling in order to facilitate the segmentation of the
new network infrastructure proposed.
Despite the disadvantage of cost, upgrading the LAN backbone at each site would provide
the most direct and significant impact for business performance. Each location has between
25 and 50 employees utilizing computers and around 25 VOIP phones. Provided an
estimated required bandwidth of 5Mbps per VOIP phone the 100Mbps connection could be
completely saturated if all 25 phones where in use. Although this is unlikely, in combination
with bandwidth needs of the computers and other devices a 100mbps connection is simply
not enough. Through this upgrade, it is expected that employees will have better call quality
leading to less repetition as well as faster access to LAN services such and exchange, and
NAS. All of these small improvements result in significant increases in eficiency and
productivity.
The Albany location has a singular T2 connection to the WAN which provides its connectivity
to the corporate headquarters building. Inside the location there are 20 computers and a
printer wired into a 48 ports patch panel and then a 48 port switch, there is a 24 port switch
which provides connectivity to the manufacturing floor all cabling at this site is CATS. There
is a NAS, and local ERP server at this location to provide local data backup which is protected
by a UPS in case of power failure. There is a fiber connection between the local ERP server
and the NAS to facilitate faster data access. Finally there is firewall monitoring the T2 WAN
connection to provide some additional security to the local network. The Pontiac location is
very similarly built to the Albany location with the exception that it is a larger network. The
Pontiac location has 45 computers running the same Windows 7 and Ofice 2007 along with
4 printers.
Running a business in an ever forward moving technological world ensuring that a business
is is keeping up with technology has become critical to maintaining and improving business
performance. "The advancement of technology and the changing global business
environment have compelled the transformation of a warehouse" tiKumar et al., 2021, p.
3470). Utilizing enhances tools for tracking warehouse inventory, production and progress,
will move the business towards increased performance and eficiency as data transparency
increases. This increased insight into production and stocks will lead to increased
manufacturing eficiency while also reducing waste and cost through more informed
ordering of materials and supplies. Beyond these changes and advancements, simply
upgrading the equipment that is on site will greatly improve eficiency. Upgrading the
infrastructure to allow for greater data transfer speeds between employee computers and
local storage, means it takes less time to open and save documents saved on the local NAS,
increased backup speeds, less time waiting for calculations to occur and applications to
load. All of these time savings accumulate into increased eficiency and performance. Adding
new cloud based solution into the new IT infrastructure will allow for future growth in
business compute needs, as well as allowing for a tertiary data backup beyond the local and
main data storage locations at the corporate headquarters. This is another example of how
upgrading the infrastructure will allow for the business to become more productive by
taking advantage of additional tools like cloud computing. "Cloud computing information
centers give high extensibility, achievement, and approach to effective limitless computing
capacity to application suppliers" tiNazir et al. 2021, p. 3537)
Recommendations
The recommendation with the most significant impact will be migrating from
100baseTtilEEE 802.3u) to 1000baseT ti IEEE 802.3ab) and properly segmenting the
network. Based on the current state and structure of the network at each location the most
significant data bottleneck. Along with the data throughput there is also significant added
security risks to each network due to how they are structured and unsegmented.
The biggest advantages in migrating to a newer ethernet protocol and associated speed, will
be the improved data throughput. "However, the interconnection of dissimilar LANs and
devices over a high-speed backbone network can create congestion at a destination LAN
tioutput) gateway when more than one device or LAN attempt is made to communicate
simultaneously with the same device or LAN. We address the issue of congestion avoidance
in LANs interconnected by a high-speed backbone" tiHassanein 1997, p. 261). Through
migration to the 1000baseT standard and moving from a 100mbps to a 1000mbps
backbone, the ten fold increase in speed will prevent and or mitigate the majority of the
congestion. In combination with a network restructure to isolate like devices to their own
LAN, this will further prevent the congestion mentioned by Hassanein.
The most significant disadvantage to adopting this standard will be the cost and time
involved with such an upgrade. If building a new network there would not be a significant
difference in cost as most all newer devices have already adopted 1000baseT standard for
network connectivity. When considering International Plastics Inc. it may prove necessary to
not only upgrade and replace all switches, and routers, it may also be necessary to replace
some or all of the workstation computers if they do not have 1000baseT network cards or
purchase cards for each device. Additionally, even though CAT5 cabling is capable of
delivering 1000mbps speeds, depending on the length of the runs and cable degradation
since installation it may be necessary to replace significant amount of the cabling to avoid
loss in connectivity and speed. Finally attributing to the cost will be the need for additional
switches, patch panels, routers and cabling in order to facilitate the segmentation of the
new network infrastructure proposed.
Despite the disadvantage of cost, upgrading the LAN backbone at each site would provide
the most direct and significant impact for business performance. Each location has between
25 and 50 employees utilizing computers and around 25 VOIP phones. Provided an
estimated required bandwidth of 5Mbps per VOIP phone the 100Mbps connection could be
completely saturated if all 25 phones where in use. Although this is unlikely, in combination
with bandwidth needs of the computers and other devices a 100mbps connection is simply
not enough. Through this upgrade, it is expected that employees will have better call quality
leading to less repetition as well as faster access to LAN services such and exchange, and
NAS. All of these small improvements result in significant increases in eficiency and
productivity.
The Albany location has a singular T2 connection to the WAN which provides its connectivity
to the corporate headquarters building. Inside the location there are 20 computers and a
printer wired into a 48 ports patch panel and then a 48 port switch, there is a 24 port switch
which provides connectivity to the manufacturing floor all cabling at this site is CATS. There
is a NAS, and local ERP server at this location to provide local data backup which is protected
by a UPS in case of power failure. There is a fiber connection between the local ERP server
and the NAS to facilitate faster data access. Finally there is firewall monitoring the T2 WAN
connection to provide some additional security to the local network. The Pontiac location is
very similarly built to the Albany location with the exception that it is a larger network. The
Pontiac location has 45 computers running the same Windows 7 and Ofice 2007 along with
4 printers.
Running a business in an ever forward moving technological world ensuring that a business
is is keeping up with technology has become critical to maintaining and improving business
performance. "The advancement of technology and the changing global business
environment have compelled the transformation of a warehouse" tiKumar et al., 2021, p.
3470). Utilizing enhances tools for tracking warehouse inventory, production and progress,
will move the business towards increased performance and eficiency as data transparency
increases. This increased insight into production and stocks will lead to increased
manufacturing eficiency while also reducing waste and cost through more informed
ordering of materials and supplies. Beyond these changes and advancements, simply
upgrading the equipment that is on site will greatly improve eficiency. Upgrading the
infrastructure to allow for greater data transfer speeds between employee computers and
local storage, means it takes less time to open and save documents saved on the local NAS,
increased backup speeds, less time waiting for calculations to occur and applications to
load. All of these time savings accumulate into increased eficiency and performance. Adding
new cloud based solution into the new IT infrastructure will allow for future growth in
business compute needs, as well as allowing for a tertiary data backup beyond the local and
main data storage locations at the corporate headquarters. This is another example of how
upgrading the infrastructure will allow for the business to become more productive by
taking advantage of additional tools like cloud computing. "Cloud computing information
centers give high extensibility, achievement, and approach to effective limitless computing
capacity to application suppliers" tiNazir et al. 2021, p. 3537)
Recommendations
The recommendation with the most significant impact will be migrating from
100baseTtilEEE 802.3u) to 1000baseT ti IEEE 802.3ab) and properly segmenting the
network. Based on the current state and structure of the network at each location the most
significant data bottleneck. Along with the data throughput there is also significant added
security risks to each network due to how they are structured and unsegmented.
The biggest advantages in migrating to a newer ethernet protocol and associated speed, will
be the improved data throughput. "However, the interconnection of dissimilar LANs and
devices over a high-speed backbone network can create congestion at a destination LAN
tioutput) gateway when more than one device or LAN attempt is made to communicate
simultaneously with the same device or LAN. We address the issue of congestion avoidance
in LANs interconnected by a high-speed backbone" tiHassanein 1997, p. 261). Through
migration to the 1000baseT standard and moving from a 100mbps to a 1000mbps
backbone, the ten fold increase in speed will prevent and or mitigate the majority of the
congestion. In combination with a network restructure to isolate like devices to their own
LAN, this will further prevent the congestion mentioned by Hassanein.
The most significant disadvantage to adopting this standard will be the cost and time
involved with such an upgrade. If building a new network there would not be a significant
difference in cost as most all newer devices have already adopted 1000baseT standard for
network connectivity. When considering International Plastics Inc. it may prove necessary to
not only upgrade and replace all switches, and routers, it may also be necessary to replace
some or all of the workstation computers if they do not have 1000baseT network cards or
purchase cards for each device. Additionally, even though CAT5 cabling is capable of
delivering 1000mbps speeds, depending on the length of the runs and cable degradation
since installation it may be necessary to replace significant amount of the cabling to avoid
loss in connectivity and speed. Finally attributing to the cost will be the need for additional
switches, patch panels, routers and cabling in order to facilitate the segmentation of the
new network infrastructure proposed.
Despite the disadvantage of cost, upgrading the LAN backbone at each site would provide
the most direct and significant impact for business performance. Each location has between
25 and 50 employees utilizing computers and around 25 VOIP phones. Provided an
estimated required bandwidth of 5Mbps per VOIP phone the 100Mbps connection could be
completely saturated if all 25 phones where in use. Although this is unlikely, in combination
with bandwidth needs of the computers and other devices a 100mbps connection is simply
not enough. Through this upgrade, it is expected that employees will have better call quality
leading to less repetition as well as faster access to LAN services such and exchange, and
NAS. All of these small improvements result in significant increases in eficiency and
productivity.
The Albany location has a singular T2 connection to the WAN which provides its connectivity
to the corporate headquarters building. Inside the location there are 20 computers and a
printer wired into a 48 ports patch panel and then a 48 port switch, there is a 24 port switch
which provides connectivity to the manufacturing floor all cabling at this site is CATS. There
is a NAS, and local ERP server at this location to provide local data backup which is protected
by a UPS in case of power failure. There is a fiber connection between the local ERP server
and the NAS to facilitate faster data access. Finally there is firewall monitoring the T2 WAN
connection to provide some additional security to the local network. The Pontiac location is
very similarly built to the Albany location with the exception that it is a larger network. The
Pontiac location has 45 computers running the same Windows 7 and Ofice 2007 along with
4 printers.
Running a business in an ever forward moving technological world ensuring that a business
is is keeping up with technology has become critical to maintaining and improving business
performance. "The advancement of technology and the changing global business
environment have compelled the transformation of a warehouse" tiKumar et al., 2021, p.
3470). Utilizing enhances tools for tracking warehouse inventory, production and progress,
will move the business towards increased performance and eficiency as data transparency
increases. This increased insight into production and stocks will lead to increased
manufacturing eficiency while also reducing waste and cost through more informed
ordering of materials and supplies. Beyond these changes and advancements, simply
upgrading the equipment that is on site will greatly improve eficiency. Upgrading the
infrastructure to allow for greater data transfer speeds between employee computers and
local storage, means it takes less time to open and save documents saved on the local NAS,
increased backup speeds, less time waiting for calculations to occur and applications to
load. All of these time savings accumulate into increased eficiency and performance. Adding
new cloud based solution into the new IT infrastructure will allow for future growth in
business compute needs, as well as allowing for a tertiary data backup beyond the local and
main data storage locations at the corporate headquarters. This is another example of how
upgrading the infrastructure will allow for the business to become more productive by
taking advantage of additional tools like cloud computing. "Cloud computing information
centers give high extensibility, achievement, and approach to effective limitless computing
capacity to application suppliers" tiNazir et al. 2021, p. 3537)
Recommendations
The recommendation with the most significant impact will be migrating from
100baseTtilEEE 802.3u) to 1000baseT ti IEEE 802.3ab) and properly segmenting the
network. Based on the current state and structure of the network at each location the most
significant data bottleneck. Along with the data throughput there is also significant added
security risks to each network due to how they are structured and unsegmented.
The biggest advantages in migrating to a newer ethernet protocol and associated speed, will
be the improved data throughput. "However, the interconnection of dissimilar LANs and
devices over a high-speed backbone network can create congestion at a destination LAN
tioutput) gateway when more than one device or LAN attempt is made to communicate
simultaneously with the same device or LAN. We address the issue of congestion avoidance
in LANs interconnected by a high-speed backbone" tiHassanein 1997, p. 261). Through
migration to the 1000baseT standard and moving from a 100mbps to a 1000mbps
backbone, the ten fold increase in speed will prevent and or mitigate the majority of the
congestion. In combination with a network restructure to isolate like devices to their own
LAN, this will further prevent the congestion mentioned by Hassanein.
The most significant disadvantage to adopting this standard will be the cost and time
involved with such an upgrade. If building a new network there would not be a significant
difference in cost as most all newer devices have already adopted 1000baseT standard for
network connectivity. When considering International Plastics Inc. it may prove necessary to
not only upgrade and replace all switches, and routers, it may also be necessary to replace
some or all of the workstation computers if they do not have 1000baseT network cards or
purchase cards for each device. Additionally, even though CAT5 cabling is capable of
delivering 1000mbps speeds, depending on the length of the runs and cable degradation
since installation it may be necessary to replace significant amount of the cabling to avoid
loss in connectivity and speed. Finally attributing to the cost will be the need for additional
switches, patch panels, routers and cabling in order to facilitate the segmentation of the
new network infrastructure proposed.
Despite the disadvantage of cost, upgrading the LAN backbone at each site would provide
the most direct and significant impact for business performance. Each location has between
25 and 50 employees utilizing computers and around 25 VOIP phones. Provided an
estimated required bandwidth of 5Mbps per VOIP phone the 100Mbps connection could be
completely saturated if all 25 phones where in use. Although this is unlikely, in combination
with bandwidth needs of the computers and other devices a 100mbps connection is simply
not enough. Through this upgrade, it is expected that employees will have better call quality
leading to less repetition as well as faster access to LAN services such and exchange, and
NAS. All of these small improvements result in significant increases in eficiency and
productivity.
The Albany location has a singular T2 connection to the WAN which provides its connectivity
to the corporate headquarters building. Inside the location there are 20 computers and a
printer wired into a 48 ports patch panel and then a 48 port switch, there is a 24 port switch
which provides connectivity to the manufacturing floor all cabling at this site is CATS. There
is a NAS, and local ERP server at this location to provide local data backup which is protected
by a UPS in case of power failure. There is a fiber connection between the local ERP server
and the NAS to facilitate faster data access. Finally there is firewall monitoring the T2 WAN
connection to provide some additional security to the local network. The Pontiac location is
very similarly built to the Albany location with the exception that it is a larger network. The
Pontiac location has 45 computers running the same Windows 7 and Ofice 2007 along with
4 printers.
Running a business in an ever forward moving technological world ensuring that a business
is is keeping up with technology has become critical to maintaining and improving business
performance. "The advancement of technology and the changing global business
environment have compelled the transformation of a warehouse" tiKumar et al., 2021, p.
3470). Utilizing enhances tools for tracking warehouse inventory, production and progress,
will move the business towards increased performance and eficiency as data transparency
increases. This increased insight into production and stocks will lead to increased
manufacturing eficiency while also reducing waste and cost through more informed
ordering of materials and supplies. Beyond these changes and advancements, simply
upgrading the equipment that is on site will greatly improve eficiency. Upgrading the
infrastructure to allow for greater data transfer speeds between employee computers and
local storage, means it takes less time to open and save documents saved on the local NAS,
increased backup speeds, less time waiting for calculations to occur and applications to
load. All of these time savings accumulate into increased eficiency and performance. Adding
new cloud based solution into the new IT infrastructure will allow for future growth in
business compute needs, as well as allowing for a tertiary data backup beyond the local and
main data storage locations at the corporate headquarters. This is another example of how
upgrading the infrastructure will allow for the business to become more productive by
taking advantage of additional tools like cloud computing. "Cloud computing information
centers give high extensibility, achievement, and approach to effective limitless computing
capacity to application suppliers" tiNazir et al. 2021, p. 3537)
Recommendations
The recommendation with the most significant impact will be migrating from
100baseTtilEEE 802.3u) to 1000baseT ti IEEE 802.3ab) and properly segmenting the
network. Based on the current state and structure of the network at each location the most
significant data bottleneck. Along with the data throughput there is also significant added
security risks to each network due to how they are structured and unsegmented.
The biggest advantages in migrating to a newer ethernet protocol and associated speed, will
be the improved data throughput. "However, the interconnection of dissimilar LANs and
devices over a high-speed backbone network can create congestion at a destination LAN
tioutput) gateway when more than one device or LAN attempt is made to communicate
simultaneously with the same device or LAN. We address the issue of congestion avoidance
in LANs interconnected by a high-speed backbone" tiHassanein 1997, p. 261). Through
migration to the 1000baseT standard and moving from a 100mbps to a 1000mbps
backbone, the ten fold increase in speed will prevent and or mitigate the majority of the
congestion. In combination with a network restructure to isolate like devices to their own
LAN, this will further prevent the congestion mentioned by Hassanein.
The most significant disadvantage to adopting this standard will be the cost and time
involved with such an upgrade. If building a new network there would not be a significant
difference in cost as most all newer devices have already adopted 1000baseT standard for
network connectivity. When considering International Plastics Inc. it may prove necessary to
not only upgrade and replace all switches, and routers, it may also be necessary to replace
some or all of the workstation computers if they do not have 1000baseT network cards or
purchase cards for each device. Additionally, even though CAT5 cabling is capable of
delivering 1000mbps speeds, depending on the length of the runs and cable degradation
since installation it may be necessary to replace significant amount of the cabling to avoid
loss in connectivity and speed. Finally attributing to the cost will be the need for additional
switches, patch panels, routers and cabling in order to facilitate the segmentation of the
new network infrastructure proposed.
Despite the disadvantage of cost, upgrading the LAN backbone at each site would provide
the most direct and significant impact for business performance. Each location has between
25 and 50 employees utilizing computers and around 25 VOIP phones. Provided an
estimated required bandwidth of 5Mbps per VOIP phone the 100Mbps connection could be
completely saturated if all 25 phones where in use. Although this is unlikely, in combination
with bandwidth needs of the computers and other devices a 100mbps connection is simply
not enough. Through this upgrade, it is expected that employees will have better call quality
leading to less repetition as well as faster access to LAN services such and exchange, and
NAS. All of these small improvements result in significant increases in eficiency and
productivity.
The Albany location has a singular T2 connection to the WAN which provides its connectivity
to the corporate headquarters building. Inside the location there are 20 computers and a
printer wired into a 48 ports patch panel and then a 48 port switch, there is a 24 port switch
which provides connectivity to the manufacturing floor all cabling at this site is CATS. There
is a NAS, and local ERP server at this location to provide local data backup which is protected
by a UPS in case of power failure. There is a fiber connection between the local ERP server
and the NAS to facilitate faster data access. Finally there is firewall monitoring the T2 WAN
connection to provide some additional security to the local network. The Pontiac location is
very similarly built to the Albany location with the exception that it is a larger network. The
Pontiac location has 45 computers running the same Windows 7 and Ofice 2007 along with
4 printers.
Running a business in an ever forward moving technological world ensuring that a business
is is keeping up with technology has become critical to maintaining and improving business
performance. "The advancement of technology and the changing global business
environment have compelled the transformation of a warehouse" tiKumar et al., 2021, p.
3470). Utilizing enhances tools for tracking warehouse inventory, production and progress,
will move the business towards increased performance and eficiency as data transparency
increases. This increased insight into production and stocks will lead to increased
manufacturing eficiency while also reducing waste and cost through more informed
ordering of materials and supplies. Beyond these changes and advancements, simply
upgrading the equipment that is on site will greatly improve eficiency. Upgrading the
infrastructure to allow for greater data transfer speeds between employee computers and
local storage, means it takes less time to open and save documents saved on the local NAS,
increased backup speeds, less time waiting for calculations to occur and applications to
load. All of these time savings accumulate into increased eficiency and performance. Adding
new cloud based solution into the new IT infrastructure will allow for future growth in
business compute needs, as well as allowing for a tertiary data backup beyond the local and
main data storage locations at the corporate headquarters. This is another example of how
upgrading the infrastructure will allow for the business to become more productive by
taking advantage of additional tools like cloud computing. "Cloud computing information
centers give high extensibility, achievement, and approach to effective limitless computing
capacity to application suppliers" tiNazir et al. 2021, p. 3537)
Recommendations
The recommendation with the most significant impact will be migrating from
100baseTtilEEE 802.3u) to 1000baseT ti IEEE 802.3ab) and properly segmenting the
network. Based on the current state and structure of the network at each location the most
significant data bottleneck. Along with the data throughput there is also significant added
security risks to each network due to how they are structured and unsegmented.
The biggest advantages in migrating to a newer ethernet protocol and associated speed, will
be the improved data throughput. "However, the interconnection of dissimilar LANs and
devices over a high-speed backbone network can create congestion at a destination LAN
tioutput) gateway when more than one device or LAN attempt is made to communicate
simultaneously with the same device or LAN. We address the issue of congestion avoidance
in LANs interconnected by a high-speed backbone" tiHassanein 1997, p. 261). Through
migration to the 1000baseT standard and moving from a 100mbps to a 1000mbps
backbone, the ten fold increase in speed will prevent and or mitigate the majority of the
congestion. In combination with a network restructure to isolate like devices to their own
LAN, this will further prevent the congestion mentioned by Hassanein.
The most significant disadvantage to adopting this standard will be the cost and time
involved with such an upgrade. If building a new network there would not be a significant
difference in cost as most all newer devices have already adopted 1000baseT standard for
network connectivity. When considering International Plastics Inc. it may prove necessary to
not only upgrade and replace all switches, and routers, it may also be necessary to replace
some or all of the workstation computers if they do not have 1000baseT network cards or
purchase cards for each device. Additionally, even though CAT5 cabling is capable of
delivering 1000mbps speeds, depending on the length of the runs and cable degradation
since installation it may be necessary to replace significant amount of the cabling to avoid
loss in connectivity and speed. Finally attributing to the cost will be the need for additional
switches, patch panels, routers and cabling in order to facilitate the segmentation of the
new network infrastructure proposed.
Despite the disadvantage of cost, upgrading the LAN backbone at each site would provide
the most direct and significant impact for business performance. Each location has between
25 and 50 employees utilizing computers and around 25 VOIP phones. Provided an
estimated required bandwidth of 5Mbps per VOIP phone the 100Mbps connection could be
completely saturated if all 25 phones where in use. Although this is unlikely, in combination
with bandwidth needs of the computers and other devices a 100mbps connection is simply
not enough. Through this upgrade, it is expected that employees will have better call quality
leading to less repetition as well as faster access to LAN services such and exchange, and
NAS. All of these small improvements result in significant increases in eficiency and
productivity.
The Albany location has a singular T2 connection to the WAN which provides its connectivity
to the corporate headquarters building. Inside the location there are 20 computers and a
printer wired into a 48 ports patch panel and then a 48 port switch, there is a 24 port switch
which provides connectivity to the manufacturing floor all cabling at this site is CATS. There
is a NAS, and local ERP server at this location to provide local data backup which is protected
by a UPS in case of power failure. There is a fiber connection between the local ERP server
and the NAS to facilitate faster data access. Finally there is firewall monitoring the T2 WAN
connection to provide some additional security to the local network. The Pontiac location is
very similarly built to the Albany location with the exception that it is a larger network. The
Pontiac location has 45 computers running the same Windows 7 and Ofice 2007 along with
4 printers.
Running a business in an ever forward moving technological world ensuring that a business
is is keeping up with technology has become critical to maintaining and improving business
performance. "The advancement of technology and the changing global business
environment have compelled the transformation of a warehouse" tiKumar et al., 2021, p.
3470). Utilizing enhances tools for tracking warehouse inventory, production and progress,
will move the business towards increased performance and eficiency as data transparency
increases. This increased insight into production and stocks will lead to increased
manufacturing eficiency while also reducing waste and cost through more informed
ordering of materials and supplies. Beyond these changes and advancements, simply
upgrading the equipment that is on site will greatly improve eficiency. Upgrading the
infrastructure to allow for greater data transfer speeds between employee computers and
local storage, means it takes less time to open and save documents saved on the local NAS,
increased backup speeds, less time waiting for calculations to occur and applications to
load. All of these time savings accumulate into increased eficiency and performance. Adding
new cloud based solution into the new IT infrastructure will allow for future growth in
business compute needs, as well as allowing for a tertiary data backup beyond the local and
main data storage locations at the corporate headquarters. This is another example of how
upgrading the infrastructure will allow for the business to become more productive by
taking advantage of additional tools like cloud computing. "Cloud computing information
centers give high extensibility, achievement, and approach to effective limitless computing
capacity to application suppliers" tiNazir et al. 2021, p. 3537)
Recommendations
The recommendation with the most significant impact will be migrating from
100baseTtilEEE 802.3u) to 1000baseT ti IEEE 802.3ab) and properly segmenting the
network. Based on the current state and structure of the network at each location the most
significant data bottleneck. Along with the data throughput there is also significant added
security risks to each network due to how they are structured and unsegmented.
The biggest advantages in migrating to a newer ethernet protocol and associated speed, will
be the improved data throughput. "However, the interconnection of dissimilar LANs and
devices over a high-speed backbone network can create congestion at a destination LAN
tioutput) gateway when more than one device or LAN attempt is made to communicate
simultaneously with the same device or LAN. We address the issue of congestion avoidance
in LANs interconnected by a high-speed backbone" tiHassanein 1997, p. 261). Through
migration to the 1000baseT standard and moving from a 100mbps to a 1000mbps
backbone, the ten fold increase in speed will prevent and or mitigate the majority of the
congestion. In combination with a network restructure to isolate like devices to their own
LAN, this will further prevent the congestion mentioned by Hassanein.
The most significant disadvantage to adopting this standard will be the cost and time
involved with such an upgrade. If building a new network there would not be a significant
difference in cost as most all newer devices have already adopted 1000baseT standard for
network connectivity. When considering International Plastics Inc. it may prove necessary to
not only upgrade and replace all switches, and routers, it may also be necessary to replace
some or all of the workstation computers if they do not have 1000baseT network cards or
purchase cards for each device. Additionally, even though CAT5 cabling is capable of
delivering 1000mbps speeds, depending on the length of the runs and cable degradation
since installation it may be necessary to replace significant amount of the cabling to avoid
loss in connectivity and speed. Finally attributing to the cost will be the need for additional
switches, patch panels, routers and cabling in order to facilitate the segmentation of the
new network infrastructure proposed.
Despite the disadvantage of cost, upgrading the LAN backbone at each site would provide
the most direct and significant impact for business performance. Each location has between
25 and 50 employees utilizing computers and around 25 VOIP phones. Provided an
estimated required bandwidth of 5Mbps per VOIP phone the 100Mbps connection could be
completely saturated if all 25 phones where in use. Although this is unlikely, in combination
with bandwidth needs of the computers and other devices a 100mbps connection is simply
not enough. Through this upgrade, it is expected that employees will have better call quality
leading to less repetition as well as faster access to LAN services such and exchange, and
NAS. All of these small improvements result in significant increases in eficiency and
productivity.
The Albany location has a singular T2 connection to the WAN which provides its connectivity
to the corporate headquarters building. Inside the location there are 20 computers and a
printer wired into a 48 ports patch panel and then a 48 port switch, there is a 24 port switch
which provides connectivity to the manufacturing floor all cabling at this site is CATS. There
is a NAS, and local ERP server at this location to provide local data backup which is protected
by a UPS in case of power failure. There is a fiber connection between the local ERP server
and the NAS to facilitate faster data access. Finally there is firewall monitoring the T2 WAN
connection to provide some additional security to the local network. The Pontiac location is
very similarly built to the Albany location with the exception that it is a larger network. The
Pontiac location has 45 computers running the same Windows 7 and Ofice 2007 along with
4 printers.
Running a business in an ever forward moving technological world ensuring that a business
is is keeping up with technology has become critical to maintaining and improving business
performance. "The advancement of technology and the changing global business
environment have compelled the transformation of a warehouse" tiKumar et al., 2021, p.
3470). Utilizing enhances tools for tracking warehouse inventory, production and progress,
will move the business towards increased performance and eficiency as data transparency
increases. This increased insight into production and stocks will lead to increased
manufacturing eficiency while also reducing waste and cost through more informed
ordering of materials and supplies. Beyond these changes and advancements, simply
upgrading the equipment that is on site will greatly improve eficiency. Upgrading the
infrastructure to allow for greater data transfer speeds between employee computers and
local storage, means it takes less time to open and save documents saved on the local NAS,
increased backup speeds, less time waiting for calculations to occur and applications to
load. All of these time savings accumulate into increased eficiency and performance. Adding
new cloud based solution into the new IT infrastructure will allow for future growth in
business compute needs, as well as allowing for a tertiary data backup beyond the local and
main data storage locations at the corporate headquarters. This is another example of how
upgrading the infrastructure will allow for the business to become more productive by
taking advantage of additional tools like cloud computing. "Cloud computing information
centers give high extensibility, achievement, and approach to effective limitless computing
capacity to application suppliers" tiNazir et al. 2021, p. 3537)
Recommendations
The recommendation with the most significant impact will be migrating from
100baseTtilEEE 802.3u) to 1000baseT ti IEEE 802.3ab) and properly segmenting the
network. Based on the current state and structure of the network at each location the most
significant data bottleneck. Along with the data throughput there is also significant added
security risks to each network due to how they are structured and unsegmented.
The biggest advantages in migrating to a newer ethernet protocol and associated speed, will
be the improved data throughput. "However, the interconnection of dissimilar LANs and
devices over a high-speed backbone network can create congestion at a destination LAN
tioutput) gateway when more than one device or LAN attempt is made to communicate
simultaneously with the same device or LAN. We address the issue of congestion avoidance
in LANs interconnected by a high-speed backbone" tiHassanein 1997, p. 261). Through
migration to the 1000baseT standard and moving from a 100mbps to a 1000mbps
backbone, the ten fold increase in speed will prevent and or mitigate the majority of the
congestion. In combination with a network restructure to isolate like devices to their own
LAN, this will further prevent the congestion mentioned by Hassanein.
The most significant disadvantage to adopting this standard will be the cost and time
involved with such an upgrade. If building a new network there would not be a significant
difference in cost as most all newer devices have already adopted 1000baseT standard for
network connectivity. When considering International Plastics Inc. it may prove necessary to
not only upgrade and replace all switches, and routers, it may also be necessary to replace
some or all of the workstation computers if they do not have 1000baseT network cards or
purchase cards for each device. Additionally, even though CAT5 cabling is capable of
delivering 1000mbps speeds, depending on the length of the runs and cable degradation
since installation it may be necessary to replace significant amount of the cabling to avoid
loss in connectivity and speed. Finally attributing to the cost will be the need for additional
switches, patch panels, routers and cabling in order to facilitate the segmentation of the
new network infrastructure proposed.
Despite the disadvantage of cost, upgrading the LAN backbone at each site would provide
the most direct and significant impact for business performance. Each location has between
25 and 50 employees utilizing computers and around 25 VOIP phones. Provided an
estimated required bandwidth of 5Mbps per VOIP phone the 100Mbps connection could be
completely saturated if all 25 phones where in use. Although this is unlikely, in combination
with bandwidth needs of the computers and other devices a 100mbps connection is simply
not enough. Through this upgrade, it is expected that employees will have better call quality
leading to less repetition as well as faster access to LAN services such and exchange, and
NAS. All of these small improvements result in significant increases in eficiency and
productivity.
The Albany location has a singular T2 connection to the WAN which provides its connectivity
to the corporate headquarters building. Inside the location there are 20 computers and a
printer wired into a 48 ports patch panel and then a 48 port switch, there is a 24 port switch
which provides connectivity to the manufacturing floor all cabling at this site is CATS. There
is a NAS, and local ERP server at this location to provide local data backup which is protected
by a UPS in case of power failure. There is a fiber connection between the local ERP server
and the NAS to facilitate faster data access. Finally there is firewall monitoring the T2 WAN
connection to provide some additional security to the local network. The Pontiac location is
very similarly built to the Albany location with the exception that it is a larger network. The
Pontiac location has 45 computers running the same Windows 7 and Ofice 2007 along with
4 printers.
Running a business in an ever forward moving technological world ensuring that a business
is is keeping up with technology has become critical to maintaining and improving business
performance. "The advancement of technology and the changing global business
environment have compelled the transformation of a warehouse" tiKumar et al., 2021, p.
3470). Utilizing enhances tools for tracking warehouse inventory, production and progress,
will move the business towards increased performance and eficiency as data transparency
increases. This increased insight into production and stocks will lead to increased
manufacturing eficiency while also reducing waste and cost through more informed
ordering of materials and supplies. Beyond these changes and advancements, simply
upgrading the equipment that is on site will greatly improve eficiency. Upgrading the
infrastructure to allow for greater data transfer speeds between employee computers and
local storage, means it takes less time to open and save documents saved on the local NAS,
increased backup speeds, less time waiting for calculations to occur and applications to
load. All of these time savings accumulate into increased eficiency and performance. Adding
new cloud based solution into the new IT infrastructure will allow for future growth in
business compute needs, as well as allowing for a tertiary data backup beyond the local and
main data storage locations at the corporate headquarters. This is another example of how
upgrading the infrastructure will allow for the business to become more productive by
taking advantage of additional tools like cloud computing. "Cloud computing information
centers give high extensibility, achievement, and approach to effective limitless computing
capacity to application suppliers" tiNazir et al. 2021, p. 3537)
Recommendations
The recommendation with the most significant impact will be migrating from
100baseTtilEEE 802.3u) to 1000baseT ti IEEE 802.3ab) and properly segmenting the
network. Based on the current state and structure of the network at each location the most
significant data bottleneck. Along with the data throughput there is also significant added
security risks to each network due to how they are structured and unsegmented.
The biggest advantages in migrating to a newer ethernet protocol and associated speed, will
be the improved data throughput. "However, the interconnection of dissimilar LANs and
devices over a high-speed backbone network can create congestion at a destination LAN
tioutput) gateway when more than one device or LAN attempt is made to communicate
simultaneously with the same device or LAN. We address the issue of congestion avoidance
in LANs interconnected by a high-speed backbone" tiHassanein 1997, p. 261). Through
migration to the 1000baseT standard and moving from a 100mbps to a 1000mbps
backbone, the ten fold increase in speed will prevent and or mitigate the majority of the
congestion. In combination with a network restructure to isolate like devices to their own
LAN, this will further prevent the congestion mentioned by Hassanein.
The most significant disadvantage to adopting this standard will be the cost and time
involved with such an upgrade. If building a new network there would not be a significant
difference in cost as most all newer devices have already adopted 1000baseT standard for
network connectivity. When considering International Plastics Inc. it may prove necessary to
not only upgrade and replace all switches, and routers, it may also be necessary to replace
some or all of the workstation computers if they do not have 1000baseT network cards or
purchase cards for each device. Additionally, even though CAT5 cabling is capable of
delivering 1000mbps speeds, depending on the length of the runs and cable degradation
since installation it may be necessary to replace significant amount of the cabling to avoid
loss in connectivity and speed. Finally attributing to the cost will be the need for additional
switches, patch panels, routers and cabling in order to facilitate the segmentation of the
new network infrastructure proposed.
Despite the disadvantage of cost, upgrading the LAN backbone at each site would provide
the most direct and significant impact for business performance. Each location has between
25 and 50 employees utilizing computers and around 25 VOIP phones. Provided an
estimated required bandwidth of 5Mbps per VOIP phone the 100Mbps connection could be
completely saturated if all 25 phones where in use. Although this is unlikely, in combination
with bandwidth needs of the computers and other devices a 100mbps connection is simply
not enough. Through this upgrade, it is expected that employees will have better call quality
leading to less repetition as well as faster access to LAN services such and exchange, and
NAS. All of these small improvements result in significant increases in eficiency and
productivity.
The Albany location has a singular T2 connection to the WAN which provides its connectivity
to the corporate headquarters building. Inside the location there are 20 computers and a
printer wired into a 48 ports patch panel and then a 48 port switch, there is a 24 port switch
which provides connectivity to the manufacturing floor all cabling at this site is CATS. There
is a NAS, and local ERP server at this location to provide local data backup which is protected
by a UPS in case of power failure. There is a fiber connection between the local ERP server
and the NAS to facilitate faster data access. Finally there is firewall monitoring the T2 WAN
connection to provide some additional security to the local network. The Pontiac location is
very similarly built to the Albany location with the exception that it is a larger network. The
Pontiac location has 45 computers running the same Windows 7 and Ofice 2007 along with
4 printers.
Running a business in an ever forward moving technological world ensuring that a business
is is keeping up with technology has become critical to maintaining and improving business
performance. "The advancement of technology and the changing global business
environment have compelled the transformation of a warehouse" tiKumar et al., 2021, p.
3470). Utilizing enhances tools for tracking warehouse inventory, production and progress,
will move the business towards increased performance and eficiency as data transparency
increases. This increased insight into production and stocks will lead to increased
manufacturing eficiency while also reducing waste and cost through more informed
ordering of materials and supplies. Beyond these changes and advancements, simply
upgrading the equipment that is on site will greatly improve eficiency. Upgrading the
infrastructure to allow for greater data transfer speeds between employee computers and
local storage, means it takes less time to open and save documents saved on the local NAS,
increased backup speeds, less time waiting for calculations to occur and applications to
load. All of these time savings accumulate into increased eficiency and performance. Adding
new cloud based solution into the new IT infrastructure will allow for future growth in
business compute needs, as well as allowing for a tertiary data backup beyond the local and
main data storage locations at the corporate headquarters. This is another example of how
upgrading the infrastructure will allow for the business to become more productive by
taking advantage of additional tools like cloud computing. "Cloud computing information
centers give high extensibility, achievement, and approach to effective limitless computing
capacity to application suppliers" tiNazir et al. 2021, p. 3537)
Recommendations
The recommendation with the most significant impact will be migrating from
100baseTtilEEE 802.3u) to 1000baseT ti IEEE 802.3ab) and properly segmenting the
network. Based on the current state and structure of the network at each location the most
significant data bottleneck. Along with the data throughput there is also significant added
security risks to each network due to how they are structured and unsegmented.
The biggest advantages in migrating to a newer ethernet protocol and associated speed, will
be the improved data throughput. "However, the interconnection of dissimilar LANs and
devices over a high-speed backbone network can create congestion at a destination LAN
tioutput) gateway when more than one device or LAN attempt is made to communicate
simultaneously with the same device or LAN. We address the issue of congestion avoidance
in LANs interconnected by a high-speed backbone" tiHassanein 1997, p. 261). Through
migration to the 1000baseT standard and moving from a 100mbps to a 1000mbps
backbone, the ten fold increase in speed will prevent and or mitigate the majority of the
congestion. In combination with a network restructure to isolate like devices to their own
LAN, this will further prevent the congestion mentioned by Hassanein.
The most significant disadvantage to adopting this standard will be the cost and time
involved with such an upgrade. If building a new network there would not be a significant
difference in cost as most all newer devices have already adopted 1000baseT standard for
network connectivity. When considering International Plastics Inc. it may prove necessary to
not only upgrade and replace all switches, and routers, it may also be necessary to replace
some or all of the workstation computers if they do not have 1000baseT network cards or
purchase cards for each device. Additionally, even though CAT5 cabling is capable of
delivering 1000mbps speeds, depending on the length of the runs and cable degradation
since installation it may be necessary to replace significant amount of the cabling to avoid
loss in connectivity and speed. Finally attributing to the cost will be the need for additional
switches, patch panels, routers and cabling in order to facilitate the segmentation of the
new network infrastructure proposed.
Despite the disadvantage of cost, upgrading the LAN backbone at each site would provide
the most direct and significant impact for business performance. Each location has between
25 and 50 employees utilizing computers and around 25 VOIP phones. Provided an
estimated required bandwidth of 5Mbps per VOIP phone the 100Mbps connection could be
completely saturated if all 25 phones where in use. Although this is unlikely, in combination
with bandwidth needs of the computers and other devices a 100mbps connection is simply
not enough. Through this upgrade, it is expected that employees will have better call quality
leading to less repetition as well as faster access to LAN services such and exchange, and
NAS. All of these small improvements result in significant increases in eficiency and
productivity.
The Albany location has a singular T2 connection to the WAN which provides its connectivity
to the corporate headquarters building. Inside the location there are 20 computers and a
printer wired into a 48 ports patch panel and then a 48 port switch, there is a 24 port switch
which provides connectivity to the manufacturing floor all cabling at this site is CATS. There
is a NAS, and local ERP server at this location to provide local data backup which is protected
by a UPS in case of power failure. There is a fiber connection between the local ERP server
and the NAS to facilitate faster data access. Finally there is firewall monitoring the T2 WAN
connection to provide some additional security to the local network. The Pontiac location is
very similarly built to the Albany location with the exception that it is a larger network. The
Pontiac location has 45 computers running the same Windows 7 and Ofice 2007 along with
4 printers.
Running a business in an ever forward moving technological world ensuring that a business
is is keeping up with technology has become critical to maintaining and improving business
performance. "The advancement of technology and the changing global business
environment have compelled the transformation of a warehouse" tiKumar et al., 2021, p.
3470). Utilizing enhances tools for tracking warehouse inventory, production and progress,
will move the business towards increased performance and eficiency as data transparency
increases. This increased insight into production and stocks will lead to increased
manufacturing eficiency while also reducing waste and cost through more informed
ordering of materials and supplies. Beyond these changes and advancements, simply
upgrading the equipment that is on site will greatly improve eficiency. Upgrading the
infrastructure to allow for greater data transfer speeds between employee computers and
local storage, means it takes less time to open and save documents saved on the local NAS,
increased backup speeds, less time waiting for calculations to occur and applications to
load. All of these time savings accumulate into increased eficiency and performance. Adding
new cloud based solution into the new IT infrastructure will allow for future growth in
business compute needs, as well as allowing for a tertiary data backup beyond the local and
main data storage locations at the corporate headquarters. This is another example of how
upgrading the infrastructure will allow for the business to become more productive by
taking advantage of additional tools like cloud computing. "Cloud computing information
centers give high extensibility, achievement, and approach to effective limitless computing
capacity to application suppliers" tiNazir et al. 2021, p. 3537)
Recommendations
The recommendation with the most significant impact will be migrating from
100baseTtilEEE 802.3u) to 1000baseT ti IEEE 802.3ab) and properly segmenting the
network. Based on the current state and structure of the network at each location the most
significant data bottleneck. Along with the data throughput there is also significant added
security risks to each network due to how they are structured and unsegmented.
The biggest advantages in migrating to a newer ethernet protocol and associated speed, will
be the improved data throughput. "However, the interconnection of dissimilar LANs and
devices over a high-speed backbone network can create congestion at a destination LAN
tioutput) gateway when more than one device or LAN attempt is made to communicate
simultaneously with the same device or LAN. We address the issue of congestion avoidance
in LANs interconnected by a high-speed backbone" tiHassanein 1997, p. 261). Through
migration to the 1000baseT standard and moving from a 100mbps to a 1000mbps
backbone, the ten fold increase in speed will prevent and or mitigate the majority of the
congestion. In combination with a network restructure to isolate like devices to their own
LAN, this will further prevent the congestion mentioned by Hassanein.
The most significant disadvantage to adopting this standard will be the cost and time
involved with such an upgrade. If building a new network there would not be a significant
difference in cost as most all newer devices have already adopted 1000baseT standard for
network connectivity. When considering International Plastics Inc. it may prove necessary to
not only upgrade and replace all switches, and routers, it may also be necessary to replace
some or all of the workstation computers if they do not have 1000baseT network cards or
purchase cards for each device. Additionally, even though CAT5 cabling is capable of
delivering 1000mbps speeds, depending on the length of the runs and cable degradation
since installation it may be necessary to replace significant amount of the cabling to avoid
loss in connectivity and speed. Finally attributing to the cost will be the need for additional
switches, patch panels, routers and cabling in order to facilitate the segmentation of the
new network infrastructure proposed.
Despite the disadvantage of cost, upgrading the LAN backbone at each site would provide
the most direct and significant impact for business performance. Each location has between
25 and 50 employees utilizing computers and around 25 VOIP phones. Provided an
estimated required bandwidth of 5Mbps per VOIP phone the 100Mbps connection could be
completely saturated if all 25 phones where in use. Although this is unlikely, in combination
with bandwidth needs of the computers and other devices a 100mbps connection is simply
not enough. Through this upgrade, it is expected that employees will have better call quality
leading to less repetition as well as faster access to LAN services such and exchange, and
NAS. All of these small improvements result in significant increases in eficiency and
productivity.
The Albany location has a singular T2 connection to the WAN which provides its connectivity
to the corporate headquarters building. Inside the location there are 20 computers and a
printer wired into a 48 ports patch panel and then a 48 port switch, there is a 24 port switch
which provides connectivity to the manufacturing floor all cabling at this site is CATS. There
is a NAS, and local ERP server at this location to provide local data backup which is protected
by a UPS in case of power failure. There is a fiber connection between the local ERP server
and the NAS to facilitate faster data access. Finally there is firewall monitoring the T2 WAN
connection to provide some additional security to the local network. The Pontiac location is
very similarly built to the Albany location with the exception that it is a larger network. The
Pontiac location has 45 computers running the same Windows 7 and Ofice 2007 along with
4 printers.
Running a business in an ever forward moving technological world ensuring that a business
is is keeping up with technology has become critical to maintaining and improving business
performance. "The advancement of technology and the changing global business
environment have compelled the transformation of a warehouse" tiKumar et al., 2021, p.
3470). Utilizing enhances tools for tracking warehouse inventory, production and progress,
will move the business towards increased performance and eficiency as data transparency
increases. This increased insight into production and stocks will lead to increased
manufacturing eficiency while also reducing waste and cost through more informed
ordering of materials and supplies. Beyond these changes and advancements, simply
upgrading the equipment that is on site will greatly improve eficiency. Upgrading the
infrastructure to allow for greater data transfer speeds between employee computers and
local storage, means it takes less time to open and save documents saved on the local NAS,
increased backup speeds, less time waiting for calculations to occur and applications to
load. All of these time savings accumulate into increased eficiency and performance. Adding
new cloud based solution into the new IT infrastructure will allow for future growth in
business compute needs, as well as allowing for a tertiary data backup beyond the local and
main data storage locations at the corporate headquarters. This is another example of how
upgrading the infrastructure will allow for the business to become more productive by
taking advantage of additional tools like cloud computing. "Cloud computing information
centers give high extensibility, achievement, and approach to effective limitless computing
capacity to application suppliers" tiNazir et al. 2021, p. 3537)
Recommendations
The recommendation with the most significant impact will be migrating from
100baseTtilEEE 802.3u) to 1000baseT ti IEEE 802.3ab) and properly segmenting the
network. Based on the current state and structure of the network at each location the most
significant data bottleneck. Along with the data throughput there is also significant added
security risks to each network due to how they are structured and unsegmented.
The biggest advantages in migrating to a newer ethernet protocol and associated speed, will
be the improved data throughput. "However, the interconnection of dissimilar LANs and
devices over a high-speed backbone network can create congestion at a destination LAN
tioutput) gateway when more than one device or LAN attempt is made to communicate
simultaneously with the same device or LAN. We address the issue of congestion avoidance
in LANs interconnected by a high-speed backbone" tiHassanein 1997, p. 261). Through
migration to the 1000baseT standard and moving from a 100mbps to a 1000mbps
backbone, the ten fold increase in speed will prevent and or mitigate the majority of the
congestion. In combination with a network restructure to isolate like devices to their own
LAN, this will further prevent the congestion mentioned by Hassanein.
The most significant disadvantage to adopting this standard will be the cost and time
involved with such an upgrade. If building a new network there would not be a significant
difference in cost as most all newer devices have already adopted 1000baseT standard for
network connectivity. When considering International Plastics Inc. it may prove necessary to
not only upgrade and replace all switches, and routers, it may also be necessary to replace
some or all of the workstation computers if they do not have 1000baseT network cards or
purchase cards for each device. Additionally, even though CAT5 cabling is capable of
delivering 1000mbps speeds, depending on the length of the runs and cable degradation
since installation it may be necessary to replace significant amount of the cabling to avoid
loss in connectivity and speed. Finally attributing to the cost will be the need for additional
switches, patch panels, routers and cabling in order to facilitate the segmentation of the
new network infrastructure proposed.
Despite the disadvantage of cost, upgrading the LAN backbone at each site would provide
the most direct and significant impact for business performance. Each location has between
25 and 50 employees utilizing computers and around 25 VOIP phones. Provided an
estimated required bandwidth of 5Mbps per VOIP phone the 100Mbps connection could be
completely saturated if all 25 phones where in use. Although this is unlikely, in combination
with bandwidth needs of the computers and other devices a 100mbps connection is simply
not enough. Through this upgrade, it is expected that employees will have better call quality
leading to less repetition as well as faster access to LAN services such and exchange, and
NAS. All of these small improvements result in significant increases in eficiency and
productivity.
The Albany location has a singular T2 connection to the WAN which provides its connectivity
to the corporate headquarters building. Inside the location there are 20 computers and a
printer wired into a 48 ports patch panel and then a 48 port switch, there is a 24 port switch
which provides connectivity to the manufacturing floor all cabling at this site is CATS. There
is a NAS, and local ERP server at this location to provide local data backup which is protected
by a UPS in case of power failure. There is a fiber connection between the local ERP server
and the NAS to facilitate faster data access. Finally there is firewall monitoring the T2 WAN
connection to provide some additional security to the local network. The Pontiac location is
very similarly built to the Albany location with the exception that it is a larger network. The
Pontiac location has 45 computers running the same Windows 7 and Ofice 2007 along with
4 printers.
Running a business in an ever forward moving technological world ensuring that a business
is is keeping up with technology has become critical to maintaining and improving business
performance. "The advancement of technology and the changing global business
environment have compelled the transformation of a warehouse" tiKumar et al., 2021, p.
3470). Utilizing enhances tools for tracking warehouse inventory, production and progress,
will move the business towards increased performance and eficiency as data transparency
increases. This increased insight into production and stocks will lead to increased
manufacturing eficiency while also reducing waste and cost through more informed
ordering of materials and supplies. Beyond these changes and advancements, simply
upgrading the equipment that is on site will greatly improve eficiency. Upgrading the
infrastructure to allow for greater data transfer speeds between employee computers and
local storage, means it takes less time to open and save documents saved on the local NAS,
increased backup speeds, less time waiting for calculations to occur and applications to
load. All of these time savings accumulate into increased eficiency and performance. Adding
new cloud based solution into the new IT infrastructure will allow for future growth in
business compute needs, as well as allowing for a tertiary data backup beyond the local and
main data storage locations at the corporate headquarters. This is another example of how
upgrading the infrastructure will allow for the business to become more productive by
taking advantage of additional tools like cloud computing. "Cloud computing information
centers give high extensibility, achievement, and approach to effective limitless computing
capacity to application suppliers" tiNazir et al. 2021, p. 3537)
Recommendations
The recommendation with the most significant impact will be migrating from
100baseTtilEEE 802.3u) to 1000baseT ti IEEE 802.3ab) and properly segmenting the
network. Based on the current state and structure of the network at each location the most
significant data bottleneck. Along with the data throughput there is also significant added
security risks to each network due to how they are structured and unsegmented.
The biggest advantages in migrating to a newer ethernet protocol and associated speed, will
be the improved data throughput. "However, the interconnection of dissimilar LANs and
devices over a high-speed backbone network can create congestion at a destination LAN
tioutput) gateway when more than one device or LAN attempt is made to communicate
simultaneously with the same device or LAN. We address the issue of congestion avoidance
in LANs interconnected by a high-speed backbone" tiHassanein 1997, p. 261). Through
migration to the 1000baseT standard and moving from a 100mbps to a 1000mbps
backbone, the ten fold increase in speed will prevent and or mitigate the majority of the
congestion. In combination with a network restructure to isolate like devices to their own
LAN, this will further prevent the congestion mentioned by Hassanein.
The most significant disadvantage to adopting this standard will be the cost and time
involved with such an upgrade. If building a new network there would not be a significant
difference in cost as most all newer devices have already adopted 1000baseT standard for
network connectivity. When considering International Plastics Inc. it may prove necessary to
not only upgrade and replace all switches, and routers, it may also be necessary to replace
some or all of the workstation computers if they do not have 1000baseT network cards or
purchase cards for each device. Additionally, even though CAT5 cabling is capable of
delivering 1000mbps speeds, depending on the length of the runs and cable degradation
since installation it may be necessary to replace significant amount of the cabling to avoid
loss in connectivity and speed. Finally attributing to the cost will be the need for additional
switches, patch panels, routers and cabling in order to facilitate the segmentation of the
new network infrastructure proposed.
Despite the disadvantage of cost, upgrading the LAN backbone at each site would provide
the most direct and significant impact for business performance. Each location has between
25 and 50 employees utilizing computers and around 25 VOIP phones. Provided an
estimated required bandwidth of 5Mbps per VOIP phone the 100Mbps connection could be
completely saturated if all 25 phones where in use. Although this is unlikely, in combination
with bandwidth needs of the computers and other devices a 100mbps connection is simply
not enough. Through this upgrade, it is expected that employees will have better call quality
leading to less repetition as well as faster access to LAN services such and exchange, and
NAS. All of these small improvements result in significant increases in eficiency and
productivity.
The Albany location has a singular T2 connection to the WAN which provides its connectivity
to the corporate headquarters building. Inside the location there are 20 computers and a
printer wired into a 48 ports patch panel and then a 48 port switch, there is a 24 port switch
which provides connectivity to the manufacturing floor all cabling at this site is CATS. There
is a NAS, and local ERP server at this location to provide local data backup which is protected
by a UPS in case of power failure. There is a fiber connection between the local ERP server
and the NAS to facilitate faster data access. Finally there is firewall monitoring the T2 WAN
connection to provide some additional security to the local network. The Pontiac location is
very similarly built to the Albany location with the exception that it is a larger network. The
Pontiac location has 45 computers running the same Windows 7 and Ofice 2007 along with
4 printers.
Running a business in an ever forward moving technological world ensuring that a business
is is keeping up with technology has become critical to maintaining and improving business
performance. "The advancement of technology and the changing global business
environment have compelled the transformation of a warehouse" tiKumar et al., 2021, p.
3470). Utilizing enhances tools for tracking warehouse inventory, production and progress,
will move the business towards increased performance and eficiency as data transparency
increases. This increased insight into production and stocks will lead to increased
manufacturing eficiency while also reducing waste and cost through more informed
ordering of materials and supplies. Beyond these changes and advancements, simply
upgrading the equipment that is on site will greatly improve eficiency. Upgrading the
infrastructure to allow for greater data transfer speeds between employee computers and
local storage, means it takes less time to open and save documents saved on the local NAS,
increased backup speeds, less time waiting for calculations to occur and applications to
load. All of these time savings accumulate into increased eficiency and performance. Adding
new cloud based solution into the new IT infrastructure will allow for future growth in
business compute needs, as well as allowing for a tertiary data backup beyond the local and
main data storage locations at the corporate headquarters. This is another example of how
upgrading the infrastructure will allow for the business to become more productive by
taking advantage of additional tools like cloud computing. "Cloud computing information
centers give high extensibility, achievement, and approach to effective limitless computing
capacity to application suppliers" tiNazir et al. 2021, p. 3537)
Recommendations
The recommendation with the most significant impact will be migrating from
100baseTtilEEE 802.3u) to 1000baseT ti IEEE 802.3ab) and properly segmenting the
network. Based on the current state and structure of the network at each location the most
significant data bottleneck. Along with the data throughput there is also significant added
security risks to each network due to how they are structured and unsegmented.
The biggest advantages in migrating to a newer ethernet protocol and associated speed, will
be the improved data throughput. "However, the interconnection of dissimilar LANs and
devices over a high-speed backbone network can create congestion at a destination LAN
tioutput) gateway when more than one device or LAN attempt is made to communicate
simultaneously with the same device or LAN. We address the issue of congestion avoidance
in LANs interconnected by a high-speed backbone" tiHassanein 1997, p. 261). Through
migration to the 1000baseT standard and moving from a 100mbps to a 1000mbps
backbone, the ten fold increase in speed will prevent and or mitigate the majority of the
congestion. In combination with a network restructure to isolate like devices to their own
LAN, this will further prevent the congestion mentioned by Hassanein.
The most significant disadvantage to adopting this standard will be the cost and time
involved with such an upgrade. If building a new network there would not be a significant
difference in cost as most all newer devices have already adopted 1000baseT standard for
network connectivity. When considering International Plastics Inc. it may prove necessary to
not only upgrade and replace all switches, and routers, it may also be necessary to replace
some or all of the workstation computers if they do not have 1000baseT network cards or
purchase cards for each device. Additionally, even though CAT5 cabling is capable of
delivering 1000mbps speeds, depending on the length of the runs and cable degradation
since installation it may be necessary to replace significant amount of the cabling to avoid
loss in connectivity and speed. Finally attributing to the cost will be the need for additional
switches, patch panels, routers and cabling in order to facilitate the segmentation of the
new network infrastructure proposed.
Despite the disadvantage of cost, upgrading the LAN backbone at each site would provide
the most direct and significant impact for business performance. Each location has between
25 and 50 employees utilizing computers and around 25 VOIP phones. Provided an
estimated required bandwidth of 5Mbps per VOIP phone the 100Mbps connection could be
completely saturated if all 25 phones where in use. Although this is unlikely, in combination
with bandwidth needs of the computers and other devices a 100mbps connection is simply
not enough. Through this upgrade, it is expected that employees will have better call quality
leading to less repetition as well as faster access to LAN services such and exchange, and
NAS. All of these small improvements result in significant increases in eficiency and
productivity.
The Albany location has a singular T2 connection to the WAN which provides its connectivity
to the corporate headquarters building. Inside the location there are 20 computers and a
printer wired into a 48 ports patch panel and then a 48 port switch, there is a 24 port switch
which provides connectivity to the manufacturing floor all cabling at this site is CATS. There
is a NAS, and local ERP server at this location to provide local data backup which is protected
by a UPS in case of power failure. There is a fiber connection between the local ERP server
and the NAS to facilitate faster data access. Finally there is firewall monitoring the T2 WAN
connection to provide some additional security to the local network. The Pontiac location is
very similarly built to the Albany location with the exception that it is a larger network. The
Pontiac location has 45 computers running the same Windows 7 and Ofice 2007 along with
4 printers.
Running a business in an ever forward moving technological world ensuring that a business
is is keeping up with technology has become critical to maintaining and improving business
performance. "The advancement of technology and the changing global business
environment have compelled the transformation of a warehouse" tiKumar et al., 2021, p.
3470). Utilizing enhances tools for tracking warehouse inventory, production and progress,
will move the business towards increased performance and eficiency as data transparency
increases. This increased insight into production and stocks will lead to increased
manufacturing eficiency while also reducing waste and cost through more informed
ordering of materials and supplies. Beyond these changes and advancements, simply
upgrading the equipment that is on site will greatly improve eficiency. Upgrading the
infrastructure to allow for greater data transfer speeds between employee computers and
local storage, means it takes less time to open and save documents saved on the local NAS,
increased backup speeds, less time waiting for calculations to occur and applications to
load. All of these time savings accumulate into increased eficiency and performance. Adding
new cloud based solution into the new IT infrastructure will allow for future growth in
business compute needs, as well as allowing for a tertiary data backup beyond the local and
main data storage locations at the corporate headquarters. This is another example of how
upgrading the infrastructure will allow for the business to become more productive by
taking advantage of additional tools like cloud computing. "Cloud computing information
centers give high extensibility, achievement, and approach to effective limitless computing
capacity to application suppliers" tiNazir et al. 2021, p. 3537)
Recommendations
The recommendation with the most significant impact will be migrating from
100baseTtilEEE 802.3u) to 1000baseT ti IEEE 802.3ab) and properly segmenting the
network. Based on the current state and structure of the network at each location the most
significant data bottleneck. Along with the data throughput there is also significant added
security risks to each network due to how they are structured and unsegmented.
The biggest advantages in migrating to a newer ethernet protocol and associated speed, will
be the improved data throughput. "However, the interconnection of dissimilar LANs and
devices over a high-speed backbone network can create congestion at a destination LAN
tioutput) gateway when more than one device or LAN attempt is made to communicate
simultaneously with the same device or LAN. We address the issue of congestion avoidance
in LANs interconnected by a high-speed backbone" tiHassanein 1997, p. 261). Through
migration to the 1000baseT standard and moving from a 100mbps to a 1000mbps
backbone, the ten fold increase in speed will prevent and or mitigate the majority of the
congestion. In combination with a network restructure to isolate like devices to their own
LAN, this will further prevent the congestion mentioned by Hassanein.
The most significant disadvantage to adopting this standard will be the cost and time
involved with such an upgrade. If building a new network there would not be a significant
difference in cost as most all newer devices have already adopted 1000baseT standard for
network connectivity. When considering International Plastics Inc. it may prove necessary to
not only upgrade and replace all switches, and routers, it may also be necessary to replace
some or all of the workstation computers if they do not have 1000baseT network cards or
purchase cards for each device. Additionally, even though CAT5 cabling is capable of
delivering 1000mbps speeds, depending on the length of the runs and cable degradation
since installation it may be necessary to replace significant amount of the cabling to avoid
loss in connectivity and speed. Finally attributing to the cost will be the need for additional
switches, patch panels, routers and cabling in order to facilitate the segmentation of the
new network infrastructure proposed.
Despite the disadvantage of cost, upgrading the LAN backbone at each site would provide
the most direct and significant impact for business performance. Each location has between
25 and 50 employees utilizing computers and around 25 VOIP phones. Provided an
estimated required bandwidth of 5Mbps per VOIP phone the 100Mbps connection could be
completely saturated if all 25 phones where in use. Although this is unlikely, in combination
with bandwidth needs of the computers and other devices a 100mbps connection is simply
not enough. Through this upgrade, it is expected that employees will have better call quality
leading to less repetition as well as faster access to LAN services such and exchange, and
NAS. All of these small improvements result in significant increases in eficiency and
productivity.
The Albany location has a singular T2 connection to the WAN which provides its connectivity
to the corporate headquarters building. Inside the location there are 20 computers and a
printer wired into a 48 ports patch panel and then a 48 port switch, there is a 24 port switch
which provides connectivity to the manufacturing floor all cabling at this site is CATS. There
is a NAS, and local ERP server at this location to provide local data backup which is protected
by a UPS in case of power failure. There is a fiber connection between the local ERP server
and the NAS to facilitate faster data access. Finally there is firewall monitoring the T2 WAN
connection to provide some additional security to the local network. The Pontiac location is
very similarly built to the Albany location with the exception that it is a larger network. The
Pontiac location has 45 computers running the same Windows 7 and Ofice 2007 along with
4 printers.
Running a business in an ever forward moving technological world ensuring that a business
is is keeping up with technology has become critical to maintaining and improving business
performance. "The advancement of technology and the changing global business
environment have compelled the transformation of a warehouse" tiKumar et al., 2021, p.
3470). Utilizing enhances tools for tracking warehouse inventory, production and progress,
will move the business towards increased performance and eficiency as data transparency
increases. This increased insight into production and stocks will lead to increased
manufacturing eficiency while also reducing waste and cost through more informed
ordering of materials and supplies. Beyond these changes and advancements, simply
upgrading the equipment that is on site will greatly improve eficiency. Upgrading the
infrastructure to allow for greater data transfer speeds between employee computers and
local storage, means it takes less time to open and save documents saved on the local NAS,
increased backup speeds, less time waiting for calculations to occur and applications to
load. All of these time savings accumulate into increased eficiency and performance. Adding
new cloud based solution into the new IT infrastructure will allow for future growth in
business compute needs, as well as allowing for a tertiary data backup beyond the local and
main data storage locations at the corporate headquarters. This is another example of how
upgrading the infrastructure will allow for the business to become more productive by
taking advantage of additional tools like cloud computing. "Cloud computing information
centers give high extensibility, achievement, and approach to effective limitless computing
capacity to application suppliers" tiNazir et al. 2021, p. 3537)
Recommendations
The recommendation with the most significant impact will be migrating from
100baseTtilEEE 802.3u) to 1000baseT ti IEEE 802.3ab) and properly segmenting the
network. Based on the current state and structure of the network at each location the most
significant data bottleneck. Along with the data throughput there is also significant added
security risks to each network due to how they are structured and unsegmented.
The biggest advantages in migrating to a newer ethernet protocol and associated speed, will
be the improved data throughput. "However, the interconnection of dissimilar LANs and
devices over a high-speed backbone network can create congestion at a destination LAN
tioutput) gateway when more than one device or LAN attempt is made to communicate
simultaneously with the same device or LAN. We address the issue of congestion avoidance
in LANs interconnected by a high-speed backbone" tiHassanein 1997, p. 261). Through
migration to the 1000baseT standard and moving from a 100mbps to a 1000mbps
backbone, the ten fold increase in speed will prevent and or mitigate the majority of the
congestion. In combination with a network restructure to isolate like devices to their own
LAN, this will further prevent the congestion mentioned by Hassanein.
The most significant disadvantage to adopting this standard will be the cost and time
involved with such an upgrade. If building a new network there would not be a significant
difference in cost as most all newer devices have already adopted 1000baseT standard for
network connectivity. When considering International Plastics Inc. it may prove necessary to
not only upgrade and replace all switches, and routers, it may also be necessary to replace
some or all of the workstation computers if they do not have 1000baseT network cards or
purchase cards for each device. Additionally, even though CAT5 cabling is capable of
delivering 1000mbps speeds, depending on the length of the runs and cable degradation
since installation it may be necessary to replace significant amount of the cabling to avoid
loss in connectivity and speed. Finally attributing to the cost will be the need for additional
switches, patch panels, routers and cabling in order to facilitate the segmentation of the
new network infrastructure proposed.
Despite the disadvantage of cost, upgrading the LAN backbone at each site would provide
the most direct and significant impact for business performance. Each location has between
25 and 50 employees utilizing computers and around 25 VOIP phones. Provided an
estimated required bandwidth of 5Mbps per VOIP phone the 100Mbps connection could be
completely saturated if all 25 phones where in use. Although this is unlikely, in combination
with bandwidth needs of the computers and other devices a 100mbps connection is simply
not enough. Through this upgrade, it is expected that employees will have better call quality
leading to less repetition as well as faster access to LAN services such and exchange, and
NAS. All of these small improvements result in significant increases in eficiency and
productivity.
The Albany location has a singular T2 connection to the WAN which provides its connectivity
to the corporate headquarters building. Inside the location there are 20 computers and a
printer wired into a 48 ports patch panel and then a 48 port switch, there is a 24 port switch
which provides connectivity to the manufacturing floor all cabling at this site is CATS. There
is a NAS, and local ERP server at this location to provide local data backup which is protected
by a UPS in case of power failure. There is a fiber connection between the local ERP server
and the NAS to facilitate faster data access. Finally there is firewall monitoring the T2 WAN
connection to provide some additional security to the local network. The Pontiac location is
very similarly built to the Albany location with the exception that it is a larger network. The
Pontiac location has 45 computers running the same Windows 7 and Ofice 2007 along with
4 printers.
Running a business in an ever forward moving technological world ensuring that a business
is is keeping up with technology has become critical to maintaining and improving business
performance. "The advancement of technology and the changing global business
environment have compelled the transformation of a warehouse" tiKumar et al., 2021, p.
3470). Utilizing enhances tools for tracking warehouse inventory, production and progress,
will move the business towards increased performance and eficiency as data transparency
increases. This increased insight into production and stocks will lead to increased
manufacturing eficiency while also reducing waste and cost through more informed
ordering of materials and supplies. Beyond these changes and advancements, simply
upgrading the equipment that is on site will greatly improve eficiency. Upgrading the
infrastructure to allow for greater data transfer speeds between employee computers and
local storage, means it takes less time to open and save documents saved on the local NAS,
increased backup speeds, less time waiting for calculations to occur and applications to
load. All of these time savings accumulate into increased eficiency and performance. Adding
new cloud based solution into the new IT infrastructure will allow for future growth in
business compute needs, as well as allowing for a tertiary data backup beyond the local and
main data storage locations at the corporate headquarters. This is another example of how
upgrading the infrastructure will allow for the business to become more productive by
taking advantage of additional tools like cloud computing. "Cloud computing information
centers give high extensibility, achievement, and approach to effective limitless computing
capacity to application suppliers" tiNazir et al. 2021, p. 3537)
Recommendations
The recommendation with the most significant impact will be migrating from
100baseTtilEEE 802.3u) to 1000baseT ti IEEE 802.3ab) and properly segmenting the
network. Based on the current state and structure of the network at each location the most
significant data bottleneck. Along with the data throughput there is also significant added
security risks to each network due to how they are structured and unsegmented.
The biggest advantages in migrating to a newer ethernet protocol and associated speed, will
be the improved data throughput. "However, the interconnection of dissimilar LANs and
devices over a high-speed backbone network can create congestion at a destination LAN
tioutput) gateway when more than one device or LAN attempt is made to communicate
simultaneously with the same device or LAN. We address the issue of congestion avoidance
in LANs interconnected by a high-speed backbone" tiHassanein 1997, p. 261). Through
migration to the 1000baseT standard and moving from a 100mbps to a 1000mbps
backbone, the ten fold increase in speed will prevent and or mitigate the majority of the
congestion. In combination with a network restructure to isolate like devices to their own
LAN, this will further prevent the congestion mentioned by Hassanein.
The most significant disadvantage to adopting this standard will be the cost and time
involved with such an upgrade. If building a new network there would not be a significant
difference in cost as most all newer devices have already adopted 1000baseT standard for
network connectivity. When considering International Plastics Inc. it may prove necessary to
not only upgrade and replace all switches, and routers, it may also be necessary to replace
some or all of the workstation computers if they do not have 1000baseT network cards or
purchase cards for each device. Additionally, even though CAT5 cabling is capable of
delivering 1000mbps speeds, depending on the length of the runs and cable degradation
since installation it may be necessary to replace significant amount of the cabling to avoid
loss in connectivity and speed. Finally attributing to the cost will be the need for additional
switches, patch panels, routers and cabling in order to facilitate the segmentation of the
new network infrastructure proposed.
Despite the disadvantage of cost, upgrading the LAN backbone at each site would provide
the most direct and significant impact for business performance. Each location has between
25 and 50 employees utilizing computers and around 25 VOIP phones. Provided an
estimated required bandwidth of 5Mbps per VOIP phone the 100Mbps connection could be
completely saturated if all 25 phones where in use. Although this is unlikely, in combination
with bandwidth needs of the computers and other devices a 100mbps connection is simply
not enough. Through this upgrade, it is expected that employees will have better call quality
leading to less repetition as well as faster access to LAN services such and exchange, and
NAS. All of these small improvements result in significant increases in eficiency and
productivity.
The Albany location has a singular T2 connection to the WAN which provides its connectivity
to the corporate headquarters building. Inside the location there are 20 computers and a
printer wired into a 48 ports patch panel and then a 48 port switch, there is a 24 port switch
which provides connectivity to the manufacturing floor all cabling at this site is CATS. There
is a NAS, and local ERP server at this location to provide local data backup which is protected
by a UPS in case of power failure. There is a fiber connection between the local ERP server
and the NAS to facilitate faster data access. Finally there is firewall monitoring the T2 WAN
connection to provide some additional security to the local network. The Pontiac location is
very similarly built to the Albany location with the exception that it is a larger network. The
Pontiac location has 45 computers running the same Windows 7 and Ofice 2007 along with
4 printers.
Running a business in an ever forward moving technological world ensuring that a business
is is keeping up with technology has become critical to maintaining and improving business
performance. "The advancement of technology and the changing global business
environment have compelled the transformation of a warehouse" tiKumar et al., 2021, p.
3470). Utilizing enhances tools for tracking warehouse inventory, production and progress,
will move the business towards increased performance and eficiency as data transparency
increases. This increased insight into production and stocks will lead to increased
manufacturing eficiency while also reducing waste and cost through more informed
ordering of materials and supplies. Beyond these changes and advancements, simply
upgrading the equipment that is on site will greatly improve eficiency. Upgrading the
infrastructure to allow for greater data transfer speeds between employee computers and
local storage, means it takes less time to open and save documents saved on the local NAS,
increased backup speeds, less time waiting for calculations to occur and applications to
load. All of these time savings accumulate into increased eficiency and performance. Adding
new cloud based solution into the new IT infrastructure will allow for future growth in
business compute needs, as well as allowing for a tertiary data backup beyond the local and
main data storage locations at the corporate headquarters. This is another example of how
upgrading the infrastructure will allow for the business to become more productive by
taking advantage of additional tools like cloud computing. "Cloud computing information
centers give high extensibility, achievement, and approach to effective limitless computing
capacity to application suppliers" tiNazir et al. 2021, p. 3537)
Recommendations
The recommendation with the most significant impact will be migrating from
100baseTtilEEE 802.3u) to 1000baseT ti IEEE 802.3ab) and properly segmenting the
network. Based on the current state and structure of the network at each location the most
significant data bottleneck. Along with the data throughput there is also significant added
security risks to each network due to how they are structured and unsegmented.
The biggest advantages in migrating to a newer ethernet protocol and associated speed, will
be the improved data throughput. "However, the interconnection of dissimilar LANs and
devices over a high-speed backbone network can create congestion at a destination LAN
tioutput) gateway when more than one device or LAN attempt is made to communicate
simultaneously with the same device or LAN. We address the issue of congestion avoidance
in LANs interconnected by a high-speed backbone" tiHassanein 1997, p. 261). Through
migration to the 1000baseT standard and moving from a 100mbps to a 1000mbps
backbone, the ten fold increase in speed will prevent and or mitigate the majority of the
congestion. In combination with a network restructure to isolate like devices to their own
LAN, this will further prevent the congestion mentioned by Hassanein.
The most significant disadvantage to adopting this standard will be the cost and time
involved with such an upgrade. If building a new network there would not be a significant
difference in cost as most all newer devices have already adopted 1000baseT standard for
network connectivity. When considering International Plastics Inc. it may prove necessary to
not only upgrade and replace all switches, and routers, it may also be necessary to replace
some or all of the workstation computers if they do not have 1000baseT network cards or
purchase cards for each device. Additionally, even though CAT5 cabling is capable of
delivering 1000mbps speeds, depending on the length of the runs and cable degradation
since installation it may be necessary to replace significant amount of the cabling to avoid
loss in connectivity and speed. Finally attributing to the cost will be the need for additional
switches, patch panels, routers and cabling in order to facilitate the segmentation of the
new network infrastructure proposed.
Despite the disadvantage of cost, upgrading the LAN backbone at each site would provide
the most direct and significant impact for business performance. Each location has between
25 and 50 employees utilizing computers and around 25 VOIP phones. Provided an
estimated required bandwidth of 5Mbps per VOIP phone the 100Mbps connection could be
completely saturated if all 25 phones where in use. Although this is unlikely, in combination
with bandwidth needs of the computers and other devices a 100mbps connection is simply
not enough. Through this upgrade, it is expected that employees will have better call quality
leading to less repetition as well as faster access to LAN services such and exchange, and
NAS. All of these small improvements result in significant increases in eficiency and
productivity.
The Albany location has a singular T2 connection to the WAN which provides its connectivity
to the corporate headquarters building. Inside the location there are 20 computers and a
printer wired into a 48 ports patch panel and then a 48 port switch, there is a 24 port switch
which provides connectivity to the manufacturing floor all cabling at this site is CATS. There
is a NAS, and local ERP server at this location to provide local data backup which is protected
by a UPS in case of power failure. There is a fiber connection between the local ERP server
and the NAS to facilitate faster data access. Finally there is firewall monitoring the T2 WAN
connection to provide some additional security to the local network. The Pontiac location is
very similarly built to the Albany location with the exception that it is a larger network. The
Pontiac location has 45 computers running the same Windows 7 and Ofice 2007 along with
4 printers.
Running a business in an ever forward moving technological world ensuring that a business
is is keeping up with technology has become critical to maintaining and improving business
performance. "The advancement of technology and the changing global business
environment have compelled the transformation of a warehouse" tiKumar et al., 2021, p.
3470). Utilizing enhances tools for tracking warehouse inventory, production and progress,
will move the business towards increased performance and eficiency as data transparency
increases. This increased insight into production and stocks will lead to increased
manufacturing eficiency while also reducing waste and cost through more informed
ordering of materials and supplies. Beyond these changes and advancements, simply
upgrading the equipment that is on site will greatly improve eficiency. Upgrading the
infrastructure to allow for greater data transfer speeds between employee computers and
local storage, means it takes less time to open and save documents saved on the local NAS,
increased backup speeds, less time waiting for calculations to occur and applications to
load. All of these time savings accumulate into increased eficiency and performance. Adding
new cloud based solution into the new IT infrastructure will allow for future growth in
business compute needs, as well as allowing for a tertiary data backup beyond the local and
main data storage locations at the corporate headquarters. This is another example of how
upgrading the infrastructure will allow for the business to become more productive by
taking advantage of additional tools like cloud computing. "Cloud computing information
centers give high extensibility, achievement, and approach to effective limitless computing
capacity to application suppliers" tiNazir et al. 2021, p. 3537)
Recommendations
The recommendation with the most significant impact will be migrating from
100baseTtilEEE 802.3u) to 1000baseT ti IEEE 802.3ab) and properly segmenting the
network. Based on the current state and structure of the network at each location the most
significant data bottleneck. Along with the data throughput there is also significant added
security risks to each network due to how they are structured and unsegmented.
The biggest advantages in migrating to a newer ethernet protocol and associated speed, will
be the improved data throughput. "However, the interconnection of dissimilar LANs and
devices over a high-speed backbone network can create congestion at a destination LAN
tioutput) gateway when more than one device or LAN attempt is made to communicate
simultaneously with the same device or LAN. We address the issue of congestion avoidance
in LANs interconnected by a high-speed backbone" tiHassanein 1997, p. 261). Through
migration to the 1000baseT standard and moving from a 100mbps to a 1000mbps
backbone, the ten fold increase in speed will prevent and or mitigate the majority of the
congestion. In combination with a network restructure to isolate like devices to their own
LAN, this will further prevent the congestion mentioned by Hassanein.
The most significant disadvantage to adopting this standard will be the cost and time
involved with such an upgrade. If building a new network there would not be a significant
difference in cost as most all newer devices have already adopted 1000baseT standard for
network connectivity. When considering International Plastics Inc. it may prove necessary to
not only upgrade and replace all switches, and routers, it may also be necessary to replace
some or all of the workstation computers if they do not have 1000baseT network cards or
purchase cards for each device. Additionally, even though CAT5 cabling is capable of
delivering 1000mbps speeds, depending on the length of the runs and cable degradation
since installation it may be necessary to replace significant amount of the cabling to avoid
loss in connectivity and speed. Finally attributing to the cost will be the need for additional
switches, patch panels, routers and cabling in order to facilitate the segmentation of the
new network infrastructure proposed.
Despite the disadvantage of cost, upgrading the LAN backbone at each site would provide
the most direct and significant impact for business performance. Each location has between
25 and 50 employees utilizing computers and around 25 VOIP phones. Provided an
estimated required bandwidth of 5Mbps per VOIP phone the 100Mbps connection could be
completely saturated if all 25 phones where in use. Although this is unlikely, in combination
with bandwidth needs of the computers and other devices a 100mbps connection is simply
not enough. Through this upgrade, it is expected that employees will have better call quality
leading to less repetition as well as faster access to LAN services such and exchange, and
NAS. All of these small improvements result in significant increases in eficiency and
productivity.
The Albany location has a singular T2 connection to the WAN which provides its connectivity
to the corporate headquarters building. Inside the location there are 20 computers and a
printer wired into a 48 ports patch panel and then a 48 port switch, there is a 24 port switch
which provides connectivity to the manufacturing floor all cabling at this site is CATS. There
is a NAS, and local ERP server at this location to provide local data backup which is protected
by a UPS in case of power failure. There is a fiber connection between the local ERP server
and the NAS to facilitate faster data access. Finally there is firewall monitoring the T2 WAN
connection to provide some additional security to the local network. The Pontiac location is
very similarly built to the Albany location with the exception that it is a larger network. The
Pontiac location has 45 computers running the same Windows 7 and Ofice 2007 along with
4 printers.
Running a business in an ever forward moving technological world ensuring that a business
is is keeping up with technology has become critical to maintaining and improving business
performance. "The advancement of technology and the changing global business
environment have compelled the transformation of a warehouse" tiKumar et al., 2021, p.
3470). Utilizing enhances tools for tracking warehouse inventory, production and progress,
will move the business towards increased performance and eficiency as data transparency
increases. This increased insight into production and stocks will lead to increased
manufacturing eficiency while also reducing waste and cost through more informed
ordering of materials and supplies. Beyond these changes and advancements, simply
upgrading the equipment that is on site will greatly improve eficiency. Upgrading the
infrastructure to allow for greater data transfer speeds between employee computers and
local storage, means it takes less time to open and save documents saved on the local NAS,
increased backup speeds, less time waiting for calculations to occur and applications to
load. All of these time savings accumulate into increased eficiency and performance. Adding
new cloud based solution into the new IT infrastructure will allow for future growth in
business compute needs, as well as allowing for a tertiary data backup beyond the local and
main data storage locations at the corporate headquarters. This is another example of how
upgrading the infrastructure will allow for the business to become more productive by
taking advantage of additional tools like cloud computing. "Cloud computing information
centers give high extensibility, achievement, and approach to effective limitless computing
capacity to application suppliers" tiNazir et al. 2021, p. 3537)
Recommendations
The recommendation with the most significant impact will be migrating from
100baseTtilEEE 802.3u) to 1000baseT ti IEEE 802.3ab) and properly segmenting the
network. Based on the current state and structure of the network at each location the most
significant data bottleneck. Along with the data throughput there is also significant added
security risks to each network due to how they are structured and unsegmented.
The biggest advantages in migrating to a newer ethernet protocol and associated speed, will
be the improved data throughput. "However, the interconnection of dissimilar LANs and
devices over a high-speed backbone network can create congestion at a destination LAN
tioutput) gateway when more than one device or LAN attempt is made to communicate
simultaneously with the same device or LAN. We address the issue of congestion avoidance
in LANs interconnected by a high-speed backbone" tiHassanein 1997, p. 261). Through
migration to the 1000baseT standard and moving from a 100mbps to a 1000mbps
backbone, the ten fold increase in speed will prevent and or mitigate the majority of the
congestion. In combination with a network restructure to isolate like devices to their own
LAN, this will further prevent the congestion mentioned by Hassanein.
The most significant disadvantage to adopting this standard will be the cost and time
involved with such an upgrade. If building a new network there would not be a significant
difference in cost as most all newer devices have already adopted 1000baseT standard for
network connectivity. When considering International Plastics Inc. it may prove necessary to
not only upgrade and replace all switches, and routers, it may also be necessary to replace
some or all of the workstation computers if they do not have 1000baseT network cards or
purchase cards for each device. Additionally, even though CAT5 cabling is capable of
delivering 1000mbps speeds, depending on the length of the runs and cable degradation
since installation it may be necessary to replace significant amount of the cabling to avoid
loss in connectivity and speed. Finally attributing to the cost will be the need for additional
switches, patch panels, routers and cabling in order to facilitate the segmentation of the
new network infrastructure proposed.
Despite the disadvantage of cost, upgrading the LAN backbone at each site would provide
the most direct and significant impact for business performance. Each location has between
25 and 50 employees utilizing computers and around 25 VOIP phones. Provided an
estimated required bandwidth of 5Mbps per VOIP phone the 100Mbps connection could be
completely saturated if all 25 phones where in use. Although this is unlikely, in combination
with bandwidth needs of the computers and other devices a 100mbps connection is simply
not enough. Through this upgrade, it is expected that employees will have better call quality
leading to less repetition as well as faster access to LAN services such and exchange, and
NAS. All of these small improvements result in significant increases in eficiency and
productivity.
The Albany location has a singular T2 connection to the WAN which provides its connectivity
to the corporate headquarters building. Inside the location there are 20 computers and a
printer wired into a 48 ports patch panel and then a 48 port switch, there is a 24 port switch
which provides connectivity to the manufacturing floor all cabling at this site is CATS. There
is a NAS, and local ERP server at this location to provide local data backup which is protected
by a UPS in case of power failure. There is a fiber connection between the local ERP server
and the NAS to facilitate faster data access. Finally there is firewall monitoring the T2 WAN
connection to provide some additional security to the local network. The Pontiac location is
very similarly built to the Albany location with the exception that it is a larger network. The
Pontiac location has 45 computers running the same Windows 7 and Ofice 2007 along with
4 printers.
Running a business in an ever forward moving technological world ensuring that a business
is is keeping up with technology has become critical to maintaining and improving business
performance. "The advancement of technology and the changing global business
environment have compelled the transformation of a warehouse" tiKumar et al., 2021, p.
3470). Utilizing enhances tools for tracking warehouse inventory, production and progress,
will move the business towards increased performance and eficiency as data transparency
increases. This increased insight into production and stocks will lead to increased
manufacturing eficiency while also reducing waste and cost through more informed
ordering of materials and supplies. Beyond these changes and advancements, simply
upgrading the equipment that is on site will greatly improve eficiency. Upgrading the
infrastructure to allow for greater data transfer speeds between employee computers and
local storage, means it takes less time to open and save documents saved on the local NAS,
increased backup speeds, less time waiting for calculations to occur and applications to
load. All of these time savings accumulate into increased eficiency and performance. Adding
new cloud based solution into the new IT infrastructure will allow for future growth in
business compute needs, as well as allowing for a tertiary data backup beyond the local and
main data storage locations at the corporate headquarters. This is another example of how
upgrading the infrastructure will allow for the business to become more productive by
taking advantage of additional tools like cloud computing. "Cloud computing information
centers give high extensibility, achievement, and approach to effective limitless computing
capacity to application suppliers" tiNazir et al. 2021, p. 3537)
Recommendations
The recommendation with the most significant impact will be migrating from
100baseTtilEEE 802.3u) to 1000baseT ti IEEE 802.3ab) and properly segmenting the
network. Based on the current state and structure of the network at each location the most
significant data bottleneck. Along with the data throughput there is also significant added
security risks to each network due to how they are structured and unsegmented.
The biggest advantages in migrating to a newer ethernet protocol and associated speed, will
be the improved data throughput. "However, the interconnection of dissimilar LANs and
devices over a high-speed backbone network can create congestion at a destination LAN
tioutput) gateway when more than one device or LAN attempt is made to communicate
simultaneously with the same device or LAN. We address the issue of congestion avoidance
in LANs interconnected by a high-speed backbone" tiHassanein 1997, p. 261). Through
migration to the 1000baseT standard and moving from a 100mbps to a 1000mbps
backbone, the ten fold increase in speed will prevent and or mitigate the majority of the
congestion. In combination with a network restructure to isolate like devices to their own
LAN, this will further prevent the congestion mentioned by Hassanein.
The most significant disadvantage to adopting this standard will be the cost and time
involved with such an upgrade. If building a new network there would not be a significant
difference in cost as most all newer devices have already adopted 1000baseT standard for
network connectivity. When considering International Plastics Inc. it may prove necessary to
not only upgrade and replace all switches, and routers, it may also be necessary to replace
some or all of the workstation computers if they do not have 1000baseT network cards or
purchase cards for each device. Additionally, even though CAT5 cabling is capable of
delivering 1000mbps speeds, depending on the length of the runs and cable degradation
since installation it may be necessary to replace significant amount of the cabling to avoid
loss in connectivity and speed. Finally attributing to the cost will be the need for additional
switches, patch panels, routers and cabling in order to facilitate the segmentation of the
new network infrastructure proposed.
Despite the disadvantage of cost, upgrading the LAN backbone at each site would provide
the most direct and significant impact for business performance. Each location has between
25 and 50 employees utilizing computers and around 25 VOIP phones. Provided an
estimated required bandwidth of 5Mbps per VOIP phone the 100Mbps connection could be
completely saturated if all 25 phones where in use. Although this is unlikely, in combination
with bandwidth needs of the computers and other devices a 100mbps connection is simply
not enough. Through this upgrade, it is expected that employees will have better call quality
leading to less repetition as well as faster access to LAN services such and exchange, and
NAS. All of these small improvements result in significant increases in eficiency and
productivity.
The Albany location has a singular T2 connection to the WAN which provides its connectivity
to the corporate headquarters building. Inside the location there are 20 computers and a
printer wired into a 48 ports patch panel and then a 48 port switch, there is a 24 port switch
which provides connectivity to the manufacturing floor all cabling at this site is CATS. There
is a NAS, and local ERP server at this location to provide local data backup which is protected
by a UPS in case of power failure. There is a fiber connection between the local ERP server
and the NAS to facilitate faster data access. Finally there is firewall monitoring the T2 WAN
connection to provide some additional security to the local network. The Pontiac location is
very similarly built to the Albany location with the exception that it is a larger network. The
Pontiac location has 45 computers running the same Windows 7 and Ofice 2007 along with
4 printers.
Running a business in an ever forward moving technological world ensuring that a business
is is keeping up with technology has become critical to maintaining and improving business
performance. "The advancement of technology and the changing global business
environment have compelled the transformation of a warehouse" tiKumar et al., 2021, p.
3470). Utilizing enhances tools for tracking warehouse inventory, production and progress,
will move the business towards increased performance and eficiency as data transparency
increases. This increased insight into production and stocks will lead to increased
manufacturing eficiency while also reducing waste and cost through more informed
ordering of materials and supplies. Beyond these changes and advancements, simply
upgrading the equipment that is on site will greatly improve eficiency. Upgrading the
infrastructure to allow for greater data transfer speeds between employee computers and
local storage, means it takes less time to open and save documents saved on the local NAS,
increased backup speeds, less time waiting for calculations to occur and applications to
load. All of these time savings accumulate into increased eficiency and performance. Adding
new cloud based solution into the new IT infrastructure will allow for future growth in
business compute needs, as well as allowing for a tertiary data backup beyond the local and
main data storage locations at the corporate headquarters. This is another example of how
upgrading the infrastructure will allow for the business to become more productive by
taking advantage of additional tools like cloud computing. "Cloud computing information
centers give high extensibility, achievement, and approach to effective limitless computing
capacity to application suppliers" tiNazir et al. 2021, p. 3537)
Recommendations
The recommendation with the most significant impact will be migrating from
100baseTtilEEE 802.3u) to 1000baseT ti IEEE 802.3ab) and properly segmenting the
network. Based on the current state and structure of the network at each location the most
significant data bottleneck. Along with the data throughput there is also significant added
security risks to each network due to how they are structured and unsegmented.
The biggest advantages in migrating to a newer ethernet protocol and associated speed, will
be the improved data throughput. "However, the interconnection of dissimilar LANs and
devices over a high-speed backbone network can create congestion at a destination LAN
tioutput) gateway when more than one device or LAN attempt is made to communicate
simultaneously with the same device or LAN. We address the issue of congestion avoidance
in LANs interconnected by a high-speed backbone" tiHassanein 1997, p. 261). Through
migration to the 1000baseT standard and moving from a 100mbps to a 1000mbps
backbone, the ten fold increase in speed will prevent and or mitigate the majority of the
congestion. In combination with a network restructure to isolate like devices to their own
LAN, this will further prevent the congestion mentioned by Hassanein.
The most significant disadvantage to adopting this standard will be the cost and time
involved with such an upgrade. If building a new network there would not be a significant
difference in cost as most all newer devices have already adopted 1000baseT standard for
network connectivity. When considering International Plastics Inc. it may prove necessary to
not only upgrade and replace all switches, and routers, it may also be necessary to replace
some or all of the workstation computers if they do not have 1000baseT network cards or
purchase cards for each device. Additionally, even though CAT5 cabling is capable of
delivering 1000mbps speeds, depending on the length of the runs and cable degradation
since installation it may be necessary to replace significant amount of the cabling to avoid
loss in connectivity and speed. Finally attributing to the cost will be the need for additional
switches, patch panels, routers and cabling in order to facilitate the segmentation of the
new network infrastructure proposed.
Despite the disadvantage of cost, upgrading the LAN backbone at each site would provide
the most direct and significant impact for business performance. Each location has between
25 and 50 employees utilizing computers and around 25 VOIP phones. Provided an
estimated required bandwidth of 5Mbps per VOIP phone the 100Mbps connection could be
completely saturated if all 25 phones where in use. Although this is unlikely, in combination
with bandwidth needs of the computers and other devices a 100mbps connection is simply
not enough. Through this upgrade, it is expected that employees will have better call quality
leading to less repetition as well as faster access to LAN services such and exchange, and
NAS. All of these small improvements result in significant increases in eficiency and
productivity.
The Albany location has a singular T2 connection to the WAN which provides its connectivity
to the corporate headquarters building. Inside the location there are 20 computers and a
printer wired into a 48 ports patch panel and then a 48 port switch, there is a 24 port switch
which provides connectivity to the manufacturing floor all cabling at this site is CATS. There
is a NAS, and local ERP server at this location to provide local data backup which is protected
by a UPS in case of power failure. There is a fiber connection between the local ERP server
and the NAS to facilitate faster data access. Finally there is firewall monitoring the T2 WAN
connection to provide some additional security to the local network. The Pontiac location is
very similarly built to the Albany location with the exception that it is a larger network. The
Pontiac location has 45 computers running the same Windows 7 and Ofice 2007 along with
4 printers.
Running a business in an ever forward moving technological world ensuring that a business
is is keeping up with technology has become critical to maintaining and improving business
performance. "The advancement of technology and the changing global business
environment have compelled the transformation of a warehouse" tiKumar et al., 2021, p.
3470). Utilizing enhances tools for tracking warehouse inventory, production and progress,
will move the business towards increased performance and eficiency as data transparency
increases. This increased insight into production and stocks will lead to increased
manufacturing eficiency while also reducing waste and cost through more informed
ordering of materials and supplies. Beyond these changes and advancements, simply
upgrading the equipment that is on site will greatly improve eficiency. Upgrading the
infrastructure to allow for greater data transfer speeds between employee computers and
local storage, means it takes less time to open and save documents saved on the local NAS,
increased backup speeds, less time waiting for calculations to occur and applications to
load. All of these time savings accumulate into increased eficiency and performance. Adding
new cloud based solution into the new IT infrastructure will allow for future growth in
business compute needs, as well as allowing for a tertiary data backup beyond the local and
main data storage locations at the corporate headquarters. This is another example of how
upgrading the infrastructure will allow for the business to become more productive by
taking advantage of additional tools like cloud computing. "Cloud computing information
centers give high extensibility, achievement, and approach to effective limitless computing
capacity to application suppliers" tiNazir et al. 2021, p. 3537)
Recommendations
The recommendation with the most significant impact will be migrating from
100baseTtilEEE 802.3u) to 1000baseT ti IEEE 802.3ab) and properly segmenting the
network. Based on the current state and structure of the network at each location the most
significant data bottleneck. Along with the data throughput there is also significant added
security risks to each network due to how they are structured and unsegmented.
The biggest advantages in migrating to a newer ethernet protocol and associated speed, will
be the improved data throughput. "However, the interconnection of dissimilar LANs and
devices over a high-speed backbone network can create congestion at a destination LAN
tioutput) gateway when more than one device or LAN attempt is made to communicate
simultaneously with the same device or LAN. We address the issue of congestion avoidance
in LANs interconnected by a high-speed backbone" tiHassanein 1997, p. 261). Through
migration to the 1000baseT standard and moving from a 100mbps to a 1000mbps
backbone, the ten fold increase in speed will prevent and or mitigate the majority of the
congestion. In combination with a network restructure to isolate like devices to their own
LAN, this will further prevent the congestion mentioned by Hassanein.
The most significant disadvantage to adopting this standard will be the cost and time
involved with such an upgrade. If building a new network there would not be a significant
difference in cost as most all newer devices have already adopted 1000baseT standard for
network connectivity. When considering International Plastics Inc. it may prove necessary to
not only upgrade and replace all switches, and routers, it may also be necessary to replace
some or all of the workstation computers if they do not have 1000baseT network cards or
purchase cards for each device. Additionally, even though CAT5 cabling is capable of
delivering 1000mbps speeds, depending on the length of the runs and cable degradation
since installation it may be necessary to replace significant amount of the cabling to avoid
loss in connectivity and speed. Finally attributing to the cost will be the need for additional
switches, patch panels, routers and cabling in order to facilitate the segmentation of the
new network infrastructure proposed.
Despite the disadvantage of cost, upgrading the LAN backbone at each site would provide
the most direct and significant impact for business performance. Each location has between
25 and 50 employees utilizing computers and around 25 VOIP phones. Provided an
estimated required bandwidth of 5Mbps per VOIP phone the 100Mbps connection could be
completely saturated if all 25 phones where in use. Although this is unlikely, in combination
with bandwidth needs of the computers and other devices a 100mbps connection is simply
not enough. Through this upgrade, it is expected that employees will have better call quality
leading to less repetition as well as faster access to LAN services such and exchange, and
NAS. All of these small improvements result in significant increases in eficiency and
productivity.
The Albany location has a singular T2 connection to the WAN which provides its connectivity
to the corporate headquarters building. Inside the location there are 20 computers and a
printer wired into a 48 ports patch panel and then a 48 port switch, there is a 24 port switch
which provides connectivity to the manufacturing floor all cabling at this site is CATS. There
is a NAS, and local ERP server at this location to provide local data backup which is protected
by a UPS in case of power failure. There is a fiber connection between the local ERP server
and the NAS to facilitate faster data access. Finally there is firewall monitoring the T2 WAN
connection to provide some additional security to the local network. The Pontiac location is
very similarly built to the Albany location with the exception that it is a larger network. The
Pontiac location has 45 computers running the same Windows 7 and Ofice 2007 along with
4 printers.
Running a business in an ever forward moving technological world ensuring that a business
is is keeping up with technology has become critical to maintaining and improving business
performance. "The advancement of technology and the changing global business
environment have compelled the transformation of a warehouse" tiKumar et al., 2021, p.
3470). Utilizing enhances tools for tracking warehouse inventory, production and progress,
will move the business towards increased performance and eficiency as data transparency
increases. This increased insight into production and stocks will lead to increased
manufacturing eficiency while also reducing waste and cost through more informed
ordering of materials and supplies. Beyond these changes and advancements, simply
upgrading the equipment that is on site will greatly improve eficiency. Upgrading the
infrastructure to allow for greater data transfer speeds between employee computers and
local storage, means it takes less time to open and save documents saved on the local NAS,
increased backup speeds, less time waiting for calculations to occur and applications to
load. All of these time savings accumulate into increased eficiency and performance. Adding
new cloud based solution into the new IT infrastructure will allow for future growth in
business compute needs, as well as allowing for a tertiary data backup beyond the local and
main data storage locations at the corporate headquarters. This is another example of how
upgrading the infrastructure will allow for the business to become more productive by
taking advantage of additional tools like cloud computing. "Cloud computing information
centers give high extensibility, achievement, and approach to effective limitless computing
capacity to application suppliers" tiNazir et al. 2021, p. 3537)
Recommendations
The recommendation with the most significant impact will be migrating from
100baseTtilEEE 802.3u) to 1000baseT ti IEEE 802.3ab) and properly segmenting the
network. Based on the current state and structure of the network at each location the most
significant data bottleneck. Along with the data throughput there is also significant added
security risks to each network due to how they are structured and unsegmented.
The biggest advantages in migrating to a newer ethernet protocol and associated speed, will
be the improved data throughput. "However, the interconnection of dissimilar LANs and
devices over a high-speed backbone network can create congestion at a destination LAN
tioutput) gateway when more than one device or LAN attempt is made to communicate
simultaneously with the same device or LAN. We address the issue of congestion avoidance
in LANs interconnected by a high-speed backbone" tiHassanein 1997, p. 261). Through
migration to the 1000baseT standard and moving from a 100mbps to a 1000mbps
backbone, the ten fold increase in speed will prevent and or mitigate the majority of the
congestion. In combination with a network restructure to isolate like devices to their own
LAN, this will further prevent the congestion mentioned by Hassanein.
The most significant disadvantage to adopting this standard will be the cost and time
involved with such an upgrade. If building a new network there would not be a significant
difference in cost as most all newer devices have already adopted 1000baseT standard for
network connectivity. When considering International Plastics Inc. it may prove necessary to
not only upgrade and replace all switches, and routers, it may also be necessary to replace
some or all of the workstation computers if they do not have 1000baseT network cards or
purchase cards for each device. Additionally, even though CAT5 cabling is capable of
delivering 1000mbps speeds, depending on the length of the runs and cable degradation
since installation it may be necessary to replace significant amount of the cabling to avoid
loss in connectivity and speed. Finally attributing to the cost will be the need for additional
switches, patch panels, routers and cabling in order to facilitate the segmentation of the
new network infrastructure proposed.
Despite the disadvantage of cost, upgrading the LAN backbone at each site would provide
the most direct and significant impact for business performance. Each location has between
25 and 50 employees utilizing computers and around 25 VOIP phones. Provided an
estimated required bandwidth of 5Mbps per VOIP phone the 100Mbps connection could be
completely saturated if all 25 phones where in use. Although this is unlikely, in combination
with bandwidth needs of the computers and other devices a 100mbps connection is simply
not enough. Through this upgrade, it is expected that employees will have better call quality
leading to less repetition as well as faster access to LAN services such and exchange, and
NAS. All of these small improvements result in significant increases in eficiency and
productivity.
The Albany location has a singular T2 connection to the WAN which provides its connectivity
to the corporate headquarters building. Inside the location there are 20 computers and a
printer wired into a 48 ports patch panel and then a 48 port switch, there is a 24 port switch
which provides connectivity to the manufacturing floor all cabling at this site is CATS. There
is a NAS, and local ERP server at this location to provide local data backup which is protected
by a UPS in case of power failure. There is a fiber connection between the local ERP server
and the NAS to facilitate faster data access. Finally there is firewall monitoring the T2 WAN
connection to provide some additional security to the local network. The Pontiac location is
very similarly built to the Albany location with the exception that it is a larger network. The
Pontiac location has 45 computers running the same Windows 7 and Ofice 2007 along with
4 printers.
Running a business in an ever forward moving technological world ensuring that a business
is is keeping up with technology has become critical to maintaining and improving business
performance. "The advancement of technology and the changing global business
environment have compelled the transformation of a warehouse" tiKumar et al., 2021, p.
3470). Utilizing enhances tools for tracking warehouse inventory, production and progress,
will move the business towards increased performance and eficiency as data transparency
increases. This increased insight into production and stocks will lead to increased
manufacturing eficiency while also reducing waste and cost through more informed
ordering of materials and supplies. Beyond these changes and advancements, simply
upgrading the equipment that is on site will greatly improve eficiency. Upgrading the
infrastructure to allow for greater data transfer speeds between employee computers and
local storage, means it takes less time to open and save documents saved on the local NAS,
increased backup speeds, less time waiting for calculations to occur and applications to
load. All of these time savings accumulate into increased eficiency and performance. Adding
new cloud based solution into the new IT infrastructure will allow for future growth in
business compute needs, as well as allowing for a tertiary data backup beyond the local and
main data storage locations at the corporate headquarters. This is another example of how
upgrading the infrastructure will allow for the business to become more productive by
taking advantage of additional tools like cloud computing. "Cloud computing information
centers give high extensibility, achievement, and approach to effective limitless computing
capacity to application suppliers" tiNazir et al. 2021, p. 3537)
Recommendations
The recommendation with the most significant impact will be migrating from
100baseTtilEEE 802.3u) to 1000baseT ti IEEE 802.3ab) and properly segmenting the
network. Based on the current state and structure of the network at each location the most
significant data bottleneck. Along with the data throughput there is also significant added
security risks to each network due to how they are structured and unsegmented.
The biggest advantages in migrating to a newer ethernet protocol and associated speed, will
be the improved data throughput. "However, the interconnection of dissimilar LANs and
devices over a high-speed backbone network can create congestion at a destination LAN
tioutput) gateway when more than one device or LAN attempt is made to communicate
simultaneously with the same device or LAN. We address the issue of congestion avoidance
in LANs interconnected by a high-speed backbone" tiHassanein 1997, p. 261). Through
migration to the 1000baseT standard and moving from a 100mbps to a 1000mbps
backbone, the ten fold increase in speed will prevent and or mitigate the majority of the
congestion. In combination with a network restructure to isolate like devices to their own
LAN, this will further prevent the congestion mentioned by Hassanein.
The most significant disadvantage to adopting this standard will be the cost and time
involved with such an upgrade. If building a new network there would not be a significant
difference in cost as most all newer devices have already adopted 1000baseT standard for
network connectivity. When considering International Plastics Inc. it may prove necessary to
not only upgrade and replace all switches, and routers, it may also be necessary to replace
some or all of the workstation computers if they do not have 1000baseT network cards or
purchase cards for each device. Additionally, even though CAT5 cabling is capable of
delivering 1000mbps speeds, depending on the length of the runs and cable degradation
since installation it may be necessary to replace significant amount of the cabling to avoid
loss in connectivity and speed. Finally attributing to the cost will be the need for additional
switches, patch panels, routers and cabling in order to facilitate the segmentation of the
new network infrastructure proposed.
Despite the disadvantage of cost, upgrading the LAN backbone at each site would provide
the most direct and significant impact for business performance. Each location has between
25 and 50 employees utilizing computers and around 25 VOIP phones. Provided an
estimated required bandwidth of 5Mbps per VOIP phone the 100Mbps connection could be
completely saturated if all 25 phones where in use. Although this is unlikely, in combination
with bandwidth needs of the computers and other devices a 100mbps connection is simply
not enough. Through this upgrade, it is expected that employees will have better call quality
leading to less repetition as well as faster access to LAN services such and exchange, and
NAS. All of these small improvements result in significant increases in eficiency and
productivity.
The Albany location has a singular T2 connection to the WAN which provides its connectivity
to the corporate headquarters building. Inside the location there are 20 computers and a
printer wired into a 48 ports patch panel and then a 48 port switch, there is a 24 port switch
which provides connectivity to the manufacturing floor all cabling at this site is CATS. There
is a NAS, and local ERP server at this location to provide local data backup which is protected
by a UPS in case of power failure. There is a fiber connection between the local ERP server
and the NAS to facilitate faster data access. Finally there is firewall monitoring the T2 WAN
connection to provide some additional security to the local network. The Pontiac location is
very similarly built to the Albany location with the exception that it is a larger network. The
Pontiac location has 45 computers running the same Windows 7 and Ofice 2007 along with
4 printers.
Running a business in an ever forward moving technological world ensuring that a business
is is keeping up with technology has become critical to maintaining and improving business
performance. "The advancement of technology and the changing global business
environment have compelled the transformation of a warehouse" tiKumar et al., 2021, p.
3470). Utilizing enhances tools for tracking warehouse inventory, production and progress,
will move the business towards increased performance and eficiency as data transparency
increases. This increased insight into production and stocks will lead to increased
manufacturing eficiency while also reducing waste and cost through more informed
ordering of materials and supplies. Beyond these changes and advancements, simply
upgrading the equipment that is on site will greatly improve eficiency. Upgrading the
infrastructure to allow for greater data transfer speeds between employee computers and
local storage, means it takes less time to open and save documents saved on the local NAS,
increased backup speeds, less time waiting for calculations to occur and applications to
load. All of these time savings accumulate into increased eficiency and performance. Adding
new cloud based solution into the new IT infrastructure will allow for future growth in
business compute needs, as well as allowing for a tertiary data backup beyond the local and
main data storage locations at the corporate headquarters. This is another example of how
upgrading the infrastructure will allow for the business to become more productive by
taking advantage of additional tools like cloud computing. "Cloud computing information
centers give high extensibility, achievement, and approach to effective limitless computing
capacity to application suppliers" tiNazir et al. 2021, p. 3537)
Recommendations
The recommendation with the most significant impact will be migrating from
100baseTtilEEE 802.3u) to 1000baseT ti IEEE 802.3ab) and properly segmenting the
network. Based on the current state and structure of the network at each location the most
significant data bottleneck. Along with the data throughput there is also significant added
security risks to each network due to how they are structured and unsegmented.
The biggest advantages in migrating to a newer ethernet protocol and associated speed, will
be the improved data throughput. "However, the interconnection of dissimilar LANs and
devices over a high-speed backbone network can create congestion at a destination LAN
tioutput) gateway when more than one device or LAN attempt is made to communicate
simultaneously with the same device or LAN. We address the issue of congestion avoidance
in LANs interconnected by a high-speed backbone" tiHassanein 1997, p. 261). Through
migration to the 1000baseT standard and moving from a 100mbps to a 1000mbps
backbone, the ten fold increase in speed will prevent and or mitigate the majority of the
congestion. In combination with a network restructure to isolate like devices to their own
LAN, this will further prevent the congestion mentioned by Hassanein.
The most significant disadvantage to adopting this standard will be the cost and time
involved with such an upgrade. If building a new network there would not be a significant
difference in cost as most all newer devices have already adopted 1000baseT standard for
network connectivity. When considering International Plastics Inc. it may prove necessary to
not only upgrade and replace all switches, and routers, it may also be necessary to replace
some or all of the workstation computers if they do not have 1000baseT network cards or
purchase cards for each device. Additionally, even though CAT5 cabling is capable of
delivering 1000mbps speeds, depending on the length of the runs and cable degradation
since installation it may be necessary to replace significant amount of the cabling to avoid
loss in connectivity and speed. Finally attributing to the cost will be the need for additional
switches, patch panels, routers and cabling in order to facilitate the segmentation of the
new network infrastructure proposed.
Despite the disadvantage of cost, upgrading the LAN backbone at each site would provide
the most direct and significant impact for business performance. Each location has between
25 and 50 employees utilizing computers and around 25 VOIP phones. Provided an
estimated required bandwidth of 5Mbps per VOIP phone the 100Mbps connection could be
completely saturated if all 25 phones where in use. Although this is unlikely, in combination
with bandwidth needs of the computers and other devices a 100mbps connection is simply
not enough. Through this upgrade, it is expected that employees will have better call quality
leading to less repetition as well as faster access to LAN services such and exchange, and
NAS. All of these small improvements result in significant increases in eficiency and
productivity.
The Albany location has a singular T2 connection to the WAN which provides its connectivity
to the corporate headquarters building. Inside the location there are 20 computers and a
printer wired into a 48 ports patch panel and then a 48 port switch, there is a 24 port switch
which provides connectivity to the manufacturing floor all cabling at this site is CATS. There
is a NAS, and local ERP server at this location to provide local data backup which is protected
by a UPS in case of power failure. There is a fiber connection between the local ERP server
and the NAS to facilitate faster data access. Finally there is firewall monitoring the T2 WAN
connection to provide some additional security to the local network. The Pontiac location is
very similarly built to the Albany location with the exception that it is a larger network. The
Pontiac location has 45 computers running the same Windows 7 and Ofice 2007 along with
4 printers.
Running a business in an ever forward moving technological world ensuring that a business
is is keeping up with technology has become critical to maintaining and improving business
performance. "The advancement of technology and the changing global business
environment have compelled the transformation of a warehouse" tiKumar et al., 2021, p.
3470). Utilizing enhances tools for tracking warehouse inventory, production and progress,
will move the business towards increased performance and eficiency as data transparency
increases. This increased insight into production and stocks will lead to increased
manufacturing eficiency while also reducing waste and cost through more informed
ordering of materials and supplies. Beyond these changes and advancements, simply
upgrading the equipment that is on site will greatly improve eficiency. Upgrading the
infrastructure to allow for greater data transfer speeds between employee computers and
local storage, means it takes less time to open and save documents saved on the local NAS,
increased backup speeds, less time waiting for calculations to occur and applications to
load. All of these time savings accumulate into increased eficiency and performance. Adding
new cloud based solution into the new IT infrastructure will allow for future growth in
business compute needs, as well as allowing for a tertiary data backup beyond the local and
main data storage locations at the corporate headquarters. This is another example of how
upgrading the infrastructure will allow for the business to become more productive by
taking advantage of additional tools like cloud computing. "Cloud computing information
centers give high extensibility, achievement, and approach to effective limitless computing
capacity to application suppliers" tiNazir et al. 2021, p. 3537)
Recommendations
The recommendation with the most significant impact will be migrating from
100baseTtilEEE 802.3u) to 1000baseT ti IEEE 802.3ab) and properly segmenting the
network. Based on the current state and structure of the network at each location the most
significant data bottleneck. Along with the data throughput there is also significant added
security risks to each network due to how they are structured and unsegmented.
The biggest advantages in migrating to a newer ethernet protocol and associated speed, will
be the improved data throughput. "However, the interconnection of dissimilar LANs and
devices over a high-speed backbone network can create congestion at a destination LAN
tioutput) gateway when more than one device or LAN attempt is made to communicate
simultaneously with the same device or LAN. We address the issue of congestion avoidance
in LANs interconnected by a high-speed backbone" tiHassanein 1997, p. 261). Through
migration to the 1000baseT standard and moving from a 100mbps to a 1000mbps
backbone, the ten fold increase in speed will prevent and or mitigate the majority of the
congestion. In combination with a network restructure to isolate like devices to their own
LAN, this will further prevent the congestion mentioned by Hassanein.
The most significant disadvantage to adopting this standard will be the cost and time
involved with such an upgrade. If building a new network there would not be a significant
difference in cost as most all newer devices have already adopted 1000baseT standard for
network connectivity. When considering International Plastics Inc. it may prove necessary to
not only upgrade and replace all switches, and routers, it may also be necessary to replace
some or all of the workstation computers if they do not have 1000baseT network cards or
purchase cards for each device. Additionally, even though CAT5 cabling is capable of
delivering 1000mbps speeds, depending on the length of the runs and cable degradation
since installation it may be necessary to replace significant amount of the cabling to avoid
loss in connectivity and speed. Finally attributing to the cost will be the need for additional
switches, patch panels, routers and cabling in order to facilitate the segmentation of the
new network infrastructure proposed.
Despite the disadvantage of cost, upgrading the LAN backbone at each site would provide
the most direct and significant impact for business performance. Each location has between
25 and 50 employees utilizing computers and around 25 VOIP phones. Provided an
estimated required bandwidth of 5Mbps per VOIP phone the 100Mbps connection could be
completely saturated if all 25 phones where in use. Although this is unlikely, in combination
with bandwidth needs of the computers and other devices a 100mbps connection is simply
not enough. Through this upgrade, it is expected that employees will have better call quality
leading to less repetition as well as faster access to LAN services such and exchange, and
NAS. All of these small improvements result in significant increases in eficiency and
productivity.
The Albany location has a singular T2 connection to the WAN which provides its connectivity
to the corporate headquarters building. Inside the location there are 20 computers and a
printer wired into a 48 ports patch panel and then a 48 port switch, there is a 24 port switch
which provides connectivity to the manufacturing floor all cabling at this site is CATS. There
is a NAS, and local ERP server at this location to provide local data backup which is protected
by a UPS in case of power failure. There is a fiber connection between the local ERP server
and the NAS to facilitate faster data access. Finally there is firewall monitoring the T2 WAN
connection to provide some additional security to the local network. The Pontiac location is
very similarly built to the Albany location with the exception that it is a larger network. The
Pontiac location has 45 computers running the same Windows 7 and Ofice 2007 along with
4 printers.
Running a business in an ever forward moving technological world ensuring that a business
is is keeping up with technology has become critical to maintaining and improving business
performance. "The advancement of technology and the changing global business
environment have compelled the transformation of a warehouse" tiKumar et al., 2021, p.
3470). Utilizing enhances tools for tracking warehouse inventory, production and progress,
will move the business towards increased performance and eficiency as data transparency
increases. This increased insight into production and stocks will lead to increased
manufacturing eficiency while also reducing waste and cost through more informed
ordering of materials and supplies. Beyond these changes and advancements, simply
upgrading the equipment that is on site will greatly improve eficiency. Upgrading the
infrastructure to allow for greater data transfer speeds between employee computers and
local storage, means it takes less time to open and save documents saved on the local NAS,
increased backup speeds, less time waiting for calculations to occur and applications to
load. All of these time savings accumulate into increased eficiency and performance. Adding
new cloud based solution into the new IT infrastructure will allow for future growth in
business compute needs, as well as allowing for a tertiary data backup beyond the local and
main data storage locations at the corporate headquarters. This is another example of how
upgrading the infrastructure will allow for the business to become more productive by
taking advantage of additional tools like cloud computing. "Cloud computing information
centers give high extensibility, achievement, and approach to effective limitless computing
capacity to application suppliers" tiNazir et al. 2021, p. 3537)
Recommendations
The recommendation with the most significant impact will be migrating from
100baseTtilEEE 802.3u) to 1000baseT ti IEEE 802.3ab) and properly segmenting the
network. Based on the current state and structure of the network at each location the most
significant data bottleneck. Along with the data throughput there is also significant added
security risks to each network due to how they are structured and unsegmented.
The biggest advantages in migrating to a newer ethernet protocol and associated speed, will
be the improved data throughput. "However, the interconnection of dissimilar LANs and
devices over a high-speed backbone network can create congestion at a destination LAN
tioutput) gateway when more than one device or LAN attempt is made to communicate
simultaneously with the same device or LAN. We address the issue of congestion avoidance
in LANs interconnected by a high-speed backbone" tiHassanein 1997, p. 261). Through
migration to the 1000baseT standard and moving from a 100mbps to a 1000mbps
backbone, the ten fold increase in speed will prevent and or mitigate the majority of the
congestion. In combination with a network restructure to isolate like devices to their own
LAN, this will further prevent the congestion mentioned by Hassanein.
The most significant disadvantage to adopting this standard will be the cost and time
involved with such an upgrade. If building a new network there would not be a significant
difference in cost as most all newer devices have already adopted 1000baseT standard for
network connectivity. When considering International Plastics Inc. it may prove necessary to
not only upgrade and replace all switches, and routers, it may also be necessary to replace
some or all of the workstation computers if they do not have 1000baseT network cards or
purchase cards for each device. Additionally, even though CAT5 cabling is capable of
delivering 1000mbps speeds, depending on the length of the runs and cable degradation
since installation it may be necessary to replace significant amount of the cabling to avoid
loss in connectivity and speed. Finally attributing to the cost will be the need for additional
switches, patch panels, routers and cabling in order to facilitate the segmentation of the
new network infrastructure proposed.
Despite the disadvantage of cost, upgrading the LAN backbone at each site would provide
the most direct and significant impact for business performance. Each location has between
25 and 50 employees utilizing computers and around 25 VOIP phones. Provided an
estimated required bandwidth of 5Mbps per VOIP phone the 100Mbps connection could be
completely saturated if all 25 phones where in use. Although this is unlikely, in combination
with bandwidth needs of the computers and other devices a 100mbps connection is simply
not enough. Through this upgrade, it is expected that employees will have better call quality
leading to less repetition as well as faster access to LAN services such and exchange, and
NAS. All of these small improvements result in significant increases in eficiency and
productivity.
The Albany location has a singular T2 connection to the WAN which provides its connectivity
to the corporate headquarters building. Inside the location there are 20 computers and a
printer wired into a 48 ports patch panel and then a 48 port switch, there is a 24 port switch
which provides connectivity to the manufacturing floor all cabling at this site is CATS. There
is a NAS, and local ERP server at this location to provide local data backup which is protected
by a UPS in case of power failure. There is a fiber connection between the local ERP server
and the NAS to facilitate faster data access. Finally there is firewall monitoring the T2 WAN
connection to provide some additional security to the local network. The Pontiac location is
very similarly built to the Albany location with the exception that it is a larger network. The
Pontiac location has 45 computers running the same Windows 7 and Ofice 2007 along with
4 printers.
Running a business in an ever forward moving technological world ensuring that a business
is is keeping up with technology has become critical to maintaining and improving business
performance. "The advancement of technology and the changing global business
environment have compelled the transformation of a warehouse" tiKumar et al., 2021, p.
3470). Utilizing enhances tools for tracking warehouse inventory, production and progress,
will move the business towards increased performance and eficiency as data transparency
increases. This increased insight into production and stocks will lead to increased
manufacturing eficiency while also reducing waste and cost through more informed
ordering of materials and supplies. Beyond these changes and advancements, simply
upgrading the equipment that is on site will greatly improve eficiency. Upgrading the
infrastructure to allow for greater data transfer speeds between employee computers and
local storage, means it takes less time to open and save documents saved on the local NAS,
increased backup speeds, less time waiting for calculations to occur and applications to
load. All of these time savings accumulate into increased eficiency and performance. Adding
new cloud based solution into the new IT infrastructure will allow for future growth in
business compute needs, as well as allowing for a tertiary data backup beyond the local and
main data storage locations at the corporate headquarters. This is another example of how
upgrading the infrastructure will allow for the business to become more productive by
taking advantage of additional tools like cloud computing. "Cloud computing information
centers give high extensibility, achievement, and approach to effective limitless computing
capacity to application suppliers" tiNazir et al. 2021, p. 3537)
Recommendations
The recommendation with the most significant impact will be migrating from
100baseTtilEEE 802.3u) to 1000baseT ti IEEE 802.3ab) and properly segmenting the
network. Based on the current state and structure of the network at each location the most
significant data bottleneck. Along with the data throughput there is also significant added
security risks to each network due to how they are structured and unsegmented.
The biggest advantages in migrating to a newer ethernet protocol and associated speed, will
be the improved data throughput. "However, the interconnection of dissimilar LANs and
devices over a high-speed backbone network can create congestion at a destination LAN
tioutput) gateway when more than one device or LAN attempt is made to communicate
simultaneously with the same device or LAN. We address the issue of congestion avoidance
in LANs interconnected by a high-speed backbone" tiHassanein 1997, p. 261). Through
migration to the 1000baseT standard and moving from a 100mbps to a 1000mbps
backbone, the ten fold increase in speed will prevent and or mitigate the majority of the
congestion. In combination with a network restructure to isolate like devices to their own
LAN, this will further prevent the congestion mentioned by Hassanein.
The most significant disadvantage to adopting this standard will be the cost and time
involved with such an upgrade. If building a new network there would not be a significant
difference in cost as most all newer devices have already adopted 1000baseT standard for
network connectivity. When considering International Plastics Inc. it may prove necessary to
not only upgrade and replace all switches, and routers, it may also be necessary to replace
some or all of the workstation computers if they do not have 1000baseT network cards or
purchase cards for each device. Additionally, even though CAT5 cabling is capable of
delivering 1000mbps speeds, depending on the length of the runs and cable degradation
since installation it may be necessary to replace significant amount of the cabling to avoid
loss in connectivity and speed. Finally attributing to the cost will be the need for additional
switches, patch panels, routers and cabling in order to facilitate the segmentation of the
new network infrastructure proposed.
Despite the disadvantage of cost, upgrading the LAN backbone at each site would provide
the most direct and significant impact for business performance. Each location has between
25 and 50 employees utilizing computers and around 25 VOIP phones. Provided an
estimated required bandwidth of 5Mbps per VOIP phone the 100Mbps connection could be
completely saturated if all 25 phones where in use. Although this is unlikely, in combination
with bandwidth needs of the computers and other devices a 100mbps connection is simply
not enough. Through this upgrade, it is expected that employees will have better call quality
leading to less repetition as well as faster access to LAN services such and exchange, and
NAS. All of these small improvements result in significant increases in eficiency and
productivity.
The Albany location has a singular T2 connection to the WAN which provides its connectivity
to the corporate headquarters building. Inside the location there are 20 computers and a
printer wired into a 48 ports patch panel and then a 48 port switch, there is a 24 port switch
which provides connectivity to the manufacturing floor all cabling at this site is CATS. There
is a NAS, and local ERP server at this location to provide local data backup which is protected
by a UPS in case of power failure. There is a fiber connection between the local ERP server
and the NAS to facilitate faster data access. Finally there is firewall monitoring the T2 WAN
connection to provide some additional security to the local network. The Pontiac location is
very similarly built to the Albany location with the exception that it is a larger network. The
Pontiac location has 45 computers running the same Windows 7 and Ofice 2007 along with
4 printers.
Running a business in an ever forward moving technological world ensuring that a business
is is keeping up with technology has become critical to maintaining and improving business
performance. "The advancement of technology and the changing global business
environment have compelled the transformation of a warehouse" tiKumar et al., 2021, p.
3470). Utilizing enhances tools for tracking warehouse inventory, production and progress,
will move the business towards increased performance and eficiency as data transparency
increases. This increased insight into production and stocks will lead to increased
manufacturing eficiency while also reducing waste and cost through more informed
ordering of materials and supplies. Beyond these changes and advancements, simply
upgrading the equipment that is on site will greatly improve eficiency. Upgrading the
infrastructure to allow for greater data transfer speeds between employee computers and
local storage, means it takes less time to open and save documents saved on the local NAS,
increased backup speeds, less time waiting for calculations to occur and applications to
load. All of these time savings accumulate into increased eficiency and performance. Adding
new cloud based solution into the new IT infrastructure will allow for future growth in
business compute needs, as well as allowing for a tertiary data backup beyond the local and
main data storage locations at the corporate headquarters. This is another example of how
upgrading the infrastructure will allow for the business to become more productive by
taking advantage of additional tools like cloud computing. "Cloud computing information
centers give high extensibility, achievement, and approach to effective limitless computing
capacity to application suppliers" tiNazir et al. 2021, p. 3537)
Recommendations
The recommendation with the most significant impact will be migrating from
100baseTtilEEE 802.3u) to 1000baseT ti IEEE 802.3ab) and properly segmenting the
network. Based on the current state and structure of the network at each location the most
significant data bottleneck. Along with the data throughput there is also significant added
security risks to each network due to how they are structured and unsegmented.
The biggest advantages in migrating to a newer ethernet protocol and associated speed, will
be the improved data throughput. "However, the interconnection of dissimilar LANs and
devices over a high-speed backbone network can create congestion at a destination LAN
tioutput) gateway when more than one device or LAN attempt is made to communicate
simultaneously with the same device or LAN. We address the issue of congestion avoidance
in LANs interconnected by a high-speed backbone" tiHassanein 1997, p. 261). Through
migration to the 1000baseT standard and moving from a 100mbps to a 1000mbps
backbone, the ten fold increase in speed will prevent and or mitigate the majority of the
congestion. In combination with a network restructure to isolate like devices to their own
LAN, this will further prevent the congestion mentioned by Hassanein.
The most significant disadvantage to adopting this standard will be the cost and time
involved with such an upgrade. If building a new network there would not be a significant
difference in cost as most all newer devices have already adopted 1000baseT standard for
network connectivity. When considering International Plastics Inc. it may prove necessary to
not only upgrade and replace all switches, and routers, it may also be necessary to replace
some or all of the workstation computers if they do not have 1000baseT network cards or
purchase cards for each device. Additionally, even though CAT5 cabling is capable of
delivering 1000mbps speeds, depending on the length of the runs and cable degradation
since installation it may be necessary to replace significant amount of the cabling to avoid
loss in connectivity and speed. Finally attributing to the cost will be the need for additional
switches, patch panels, routers and cabling in order to facilitate the segmentation of the
new network infrastructure proposed.
Despite the disadvantage of cost, upgrading the LAN backbone at each site would provide
the most direct and significant impact for business performance. Each location has between
25 and 50 employees utilizing computers and around 25 VOIP phones. Provided an
estimated required bandwidth of 5Mbps per VOIP phone the 100Mbps connection could be
completely saturated if all 25 phones where in use. Although this is unlikely, in combination
with bandwidth needs of the computers and other devices a 100mbps connection is simply
not enough. Through this upgrade, it is expected that employees will have better call quality
leading to less repetition as well as faster access to LAN services such and exchange, and
NAS. All of these small improvements result in significant increases in eficiency and
productivity.
The Albany location has a singular T2 connection to the WAN which provides its connectivity
to the corporate headquarters building. Inside the location there are 20 computers and a
printer wired into a 48 ports patch panel and then a 48 port switch, there is a 24 port switch
which provides connectivity to the manufacturing floor all cabling at this site is CATS. There
is a NAS, and local ERP server at this location to provide local data backup which is protected
by a UPS in case of power failure. There is a fiber connection between the local ERP server
and the NAS to facilitate faster data access. Finally there is firewall monitoring the T2 WAN
connection to provide some additional security to the local network. The Pontiac location is
very similarly built to the Albany location with the exception that it is a larger network. The
Pontiac location has 45 computers running the same Windows 7 and Ofice 2007 along with
4 printers.
Running a business in an ever forward moving technological world ensuring that a business
is is keeping up with technology has become critical to maintaining and improving business
performance. "The advancement of technology and the changing global business
environment have compelled the transformation of a warehouse" tiKumar et al., 2021, p.
3470). Utilizing enhances tools for tracking warehouse inventory, production and progress,
will move the business towards increased performance and eficiency as data transparency
increases. This increased insight into production and stocks will lead to increased
manufacturing eficiency while also reducing waste and cost through more informed
ordering of materials and supplies. Beyond these changes and advancements, simply
upgrading the equipment that is on site will greatly improve eficiency. Upgrading the
infrastructure to allow for greater data transfer speeds between employee computers and
local storage, means it takes less time to open and save documents saved on the local NAS,
increased backup speeds, less time waiting for calculations to occur and applications to
load. All of these time savings accumulate into increased eficiency and performance. Adding
new cloud based solution into the new IT infrastructure will allow for future growth in
business compute needs, as well as allowing for a tertiary data backup beyond the local and
main data storage locations at the corporate headquarters. This is another example of how
upgrading the infrastructure will allow for the business to become more productive by
taking advantage of additional tools like cloud computing. "Cloud computing information
centers give high extensibility, achievement, and approach to effective limitless computing
capacity to application suppliers" tiNazir et al. 2021, p. 3537)
Recommendations
The recommendation with the most significant impact will be migrating from
100baseTtilEEE 802.3u) to 1000baseT ti IEEE 802.3ab) and properly segmenting the
network. Based on the current state and structure of the network at each location the most
significant data bottleneck. Along with the data throughput there is also significant added
security risks to each network due to how they are structured and unsegmented.
The biggest advantages in migrating to a newer ethernet protocol and associated speed, will
be the improved data throughput. "However, the interconnection of dissimilar LANs and
devices over a high-speed backbone network can create congestion at a destination LAN
tioutput) gateway when more than one device or LAN attempt is made to communicate
simultaneously with the same device or LAN. We address the issue of congestion avoidance
in LANs interconnected by a high-speed backbone" tiHassanein 1997, p. 261). Through
migration to the 1000baseT standard and moving from a 100mbps to a 1000mbps
backbone, the ten fold increase in speed will prevent and or mitigate the majority of the
congestion. In combination with a network restructure to isolate like devices to their own
LAN, this will further prevent the congestion mentioned by Hassanein.
The most significant disadvantage to adopting this standard will be the cost and time
involved with such an upgrade. If building a new network there would not be a significant
difference in cost as most all newer devices have already adopted 1000baseT standard for
network connectivity. When considering International Plastics Inc. it may prove necessary to
not only upgrade and replace all switches, and routers, it may also be necessary to replace
some or all of the workstation computers if they do not have 1000baseT network cards or
purchase cards for each device. Additionally, even though CAT5 cabling is capable of
delivering 1000mbps speeds, depending on the length of the runs and cable degradation
since installation it may be necessary to replace significant amount of the cabling to avoid
loss in connectivity and speed. Finally attributing to the cost will be the need for additional
switches, patch panels, routers and cabling in order to facilitate the segmentation of the
new network infrastructure proposed.
Despite the disadvantage of cost, upgrading the LAN backbone at each site would provide
the most direct and significant impact for business performance. Each location has between
25 and 50 employees utilizing computers and around 25 VOIP phones. Provided an
estimated required bandwidth of 5Mbps per VOIP phone the 100Mbps connection could be
completely saturated if all 25 phones where in use. Although this is unlikely, in combination
with bandwidth needs of the computers and other devices a 100mbps connection is simply
not enough. Through this upgrade, it is expected that employees will have better call quality
leading to less repetition as well as faster access to LAN services such and exchange, and
NAS. All of these small improvements result in significant increases in eficiency and
productivity.
The Albany location has a singular T2 connection to the WAN which provides its connectivity
to the corporate headquarters building. Inside the location there are 20 computers and a
printer wired into a 48 ports patch panel and then a 48 port switch, there is a 24 port switch
which provides connectivity to the manufacturing floor all cabling at this site is CATS. There
is a NAS, and local ERP server at this location to provide local data backup which is protected
by a UPS in case of power failure. There is a fiber connection between the local ERP server
and the NAS to facilitate faster data access. Finally there is firewall monitoring the T2 WAN
connection to provide some additional security to the local network. The Pontiac location is
very similarly built to the Albany location with the exception that it is a larger network. The
Pontiac location has 45 computers running the same Windows 7 and Ofice 2007 along with
4 printers.
Running a business in an ever forward moving technological world ensuring that a business
is is keeping up with technology has become critical to maintaining and improving business
performance. "The advancement of technology and the changing global business
environment have compelled the transformation of a warehouse" tiKumar et al., 2021, p.
3470). Utilizing enhances tools for tracking warehouse inventory, production and progress,
will move the business towards increased performance and eficiency as data transparency
increases. This increased insight into production and stocks will lead to increased
manufacturing eficiency while also reducing waste and cost through more informed
ordering of materials and supplies. Beyond these changes and advancements, simply
upgrading the equipment that is on site will greatly improve eficiency. Upgrading the
infrastructure to allow for greater data transfer speeds between employee computers and
local storage, means it takes less time to open and save documents saved on the local NAS,
increased backup speeds, less time waiting for calculations to occur and applications to
load. All of these time savings accumulate into increased eficiency and performance. Adding
new cloud based solution into the new IT infrastructure will allow for future growth in
business compute needs, as well as allowing for a tertiary data backup beyond the local and
main data storage locations at the corporate headquarters. This is another example of how
upgrading the infrastructure will allow for the business to become more productive by
taking advantage of additional tools like cloud computing. "Cloud computing information
centers give high extensibility, achievement, and approach to effective limitless computing
capacity to application suppliers" tiNazir et al. 2021, p. 3537)
Recommendations
The recommendation with the most significant impact will be migrating from
100baseTtilEEE 802.3u) to 1000baseT ti IEEE 802.3ab) and properly segmenting the
network. Based on the current state and structure of the network at each location the most
significant data bottleneck. Along with the data throughput there is also significant added
security risks to each network due to how they are structured and unsegmented.
The biggest advantages in migrating to a newer ethernet protocol and associated speed, will
be the improved data throughput. "However, the interconnection of dissimilar LANs and
devices over a high-speed backbone network can create congestion at a destination LAN
tioutput) gateway when more than one device or LAN attempt is made to communicate
simultaneously with the same device or LAN. We address the issue of congestion avoidance
in LANs interconnected by a high-speed backbone" tiHassanein 1997, p. 261). Through
migration to the 1000baseT standard and moving from a 100mbps to a 1000mbps
backbone, the ten fold increase in speed will prevent and or mitigate the majority of the
congestion. In combination with a network restructure to isolate like devices to their own
LAN, this will further prevent the congestion mentioned by Hassanein.
The most significant disadvantage to adopting this standard will be the cost and time
involved with such an upgrade. If building a new network there would not be a significant
difference in cost as most all newer devices have already adopted 1000baseT standard for
network connectivity. When considering International Plastics Inc. it may prove necessary to
not only upgrade and replace all switches, and routers, it may also be necessary to replace
some or all of the workstation computers if they do not have 1000baseT network cards or
purchase cards for each device. Additionally, even though CAT5 cabling is capable of
delivering 1000mbps speeds, depending on the length of the runs and cable degradation
since installation it may be necessary to replace significant amount of the cabling to avoid
loss in connectivity and speed. Finally attributing to the cost will be the need for additional
switches, patch panels, routers and cabling in order to facilitate the segmentation of the
new network infrastructure proposed.
Despite the disadvantage of cost, upgrading the LAN backbone at each site would provide
the most direct and significant impact for business performance. Each location has between
25 and 50 employees utilizing computers and around 25 VOIP phones. Provided an
estimated required bandwidth of 5Mbps per VOIP phone the 100Mbps connection could be
completely saturated if all 25 phones where in use. Although this is unlikely, in combination
with bandwidth needs of the computers and other devices a 100mbps connection is simply
not enough. Through this upgrade, it is expected that employees will have better call quality
leading to less repetition as well as faster access to LAN services such and exchange, and
NAS. All of these small improvements result in significant increases in eficiency and
productivity.
The Albany location has a singular T2 connection to the WAN which provides its connectivity
to the corporate headquarters building. Inside the location there are 20 computers and a
printer wired into a 48 ports patch panel and then a 48 port switch, there is a 24 port switch
which provides connectivity to the manufacturing floor all cabling at this site is CATS. There
is a NAS, and local ERP server at this location to provide local data backup which is protected
by a UPS in case of power failure. There is a fiber connection between the local ERP server
and the NAS to facilitate faster data access. Finally there is firewall monitoring the T2 WAN
connection to provide some additional security to the local network. The Pontiac location is
very similarly built to the Albany location with the exception that it is a larger network. The
Pontiac location has 45 computers running the same Windows 7 and Ofice 2007 along with
4 printers.
Running a business in an ever forward moving technological world ensuring that a business
is is keeping up with technology has become critical to maintaining and improving business
performance. "The advancement of technology and the changing global business
environment have compelled the transformation of a warehouse" tiKumar et al., 2021, p.
3470). Utilizing enhances tools for tracking warehouse inventory, production and progress,
will move the business towards increased performance and eficiency as data transparency
increases. This increased insight into production and stocks will lead to increased
manufacturing eficiency while also reducing waste and cost through more informed
ordering of materials and supplies. Beyond these changes and advancements, simply
upgrading the equipment that is on site will greatly improve eficiency. Upgrading the
infrastructure to allow for greater data transfer speeds between employee computers and
local storage, means it takes less time to open and save documents saved on the local NAS,
increased backup speeds, less time waiting for calculations to occur and applications to
load. All of these time savings accumulate into increased eficiency and performance. Adding
new cloud based solution into the new IT infrastructure will allow for future growth in
business compute needs, as well as allowing for a tertiary data backup beyond the local and
main data storage locations at the corporate headquarters. This is another example of how
upgrading the infrastructure will allow for the business to become more productive by
taking advantage of additional tools like cloud computing. "Cloud computing information
centers give high extensibility, achievement, and approach to effective limitless computing
capacity to application suppliers" tiNazir et al. 2021, p. 3537)
Recommendations
The recommendation with the most significant impact will be migrating from
100baseTtilEEE 802.3u) to 1000baseT ti IEEE 802.3ab) and properly segmenting the
network. Based on the current state and structure of the network at each location the most
significant data bottleneck. Along with the data throughput there is also significant added
security risks to each network due to how they are structured and unsegmented.
The biggest advantages in migrating to a newer ethernet protocol and associated speed, will
be the improved data throughput. "However, the interconnection of dissimilar LANs and
devices over a high-speed backbone network can create congestion at a destination LAN
tioutput) gateway when more than one device or LAN attempt is made to communicate
simultaneously with the same device or LAN. We address the issue of congestion avoidance
in LANs interconnected by a high-speed backbone" tiHassanein 1997, p. 261). Through
migration to the 1000baseT standard and moving from a 100mbps to a 1000mbps
backbone, the ten fold increase in speed will prevent and or mitigate the majority of the
congestion. In combination with a network restructure to isolate like devices to their own
LAN, this will further prevent the congestion mentioned by Hassanein.
The most significant disadvantage to adopting this standard will be the cost and time
involved with such an upgrade. If building a new network there would not be a significant
difference in cost as most all newer devices have already adopted 1000baseT standard for
network connectivity. When considering International Plastics Inc. it may prove necessary to
not only upgrade and replace all switches, and routers, it may also be necessary to replace
some or all of the workstation computers if they do not have 1000baseT network cards or
purchase cards for each device. Additionally, even though CAT5 cabling is capable of
delivering 1000mbps speeds, depending on the length of the runs and cable degradation
since installation it may be necessary to replace significant amount of the cabling to avoid
loss in connectivity and speed. Finally attributing to the cost will be the need for additional
switches, patch panels, routers and cabling in order to facilitate the segmentation of the
new network infrastructure proposed.
Despite the disadvantage of cost, upgrading the LAN backbone at each site would provide
the most direct and significant impact for business performance. Each location has between
25 and 50 employees utilizing computers and around 25 VOIP phones. Provided an
estimated required bandwidth of 5Mbps per VOIP phone the 100Mbps connection could be
completely saturated if all 25 phones where in use. Although this is unlikely, in combination
with bandwidth needs of the computers and other devices a 100mbps connection is simply
not enough. Through this upgrade, it is expected that employees will have better call quality
leading to less repetition as well as faster access to LAN services such and exchange, and
NAS. All of these small improvements result in significant increases in eficiency and
productivity.
The Albany location has a singular T2 connection to the WAN which provides its connectivity
to the corporate headquarters building. Inside the location there are 20 computers and a
printer wired into a 48 ports patch panel and then a 48 port switch, there is a 24 port switch
which provides connectivity to the manufacturing floor all cabling at this site is CATS. There
is a NAS, and local ERP server at this location to provide local data backup which is protected
by a UPS in case of power failure. There is a fiber connection between the local ERP server
and the NAS to facilitate faster data access. Finally there is firewall monitoring the T2 WAN
connection to provide some additional security to the local network. The Pontiac location is
very similarly built to the Albany location with the exception that it is a larger network. The
Pontiac location has 45 computers running the same Windows 7 and Ofice 2007 along with
4 printers.
Running a business in an ever forward moving technological world ensuring that a business
is is keeping up with technology has become critical to maintaining and improving business
performance. "The advancement of technology and the changing global business
environment have compelled the transformation of a warehouse" tiKumar et al., 2021, p.
3470). Utilizing enhances tools for tracking warehouse inventory, production and progress,
will move the business towards increased performance and eficiency as data transparency
increases. This increased insight into production and stocks will lead to increased
manufacturing eficiency while also reducing waste and cost through more informed
ordering of materials and supplies. Beyond these changes and advancements, simply
upgrading the equipment that is on site will greatly improve eficiency. Upgrading the
infrastructure to allow for greater data transfer speeds between employee computers and
local storage, means it takes less time to open and save documents saved on the local NAS,
increased backup speeds, less time waiting for calculations to occur and applications to
load. All of these time savings accumulate into increased eficiency and performance. Adding
new cloud based solution into the new IT infrastructure will allow for future growth in
business compute needs, as well as allowing for a tertiary data backup beyond the local and
main data storage locations at the corporate headquarters. This is another example of how
upgrading the infrastructure will allow for the business to become more productive by
taking advantage of additional tools like cloud computing. "Cloud computing information
centers give high extensibility, achievement, and approach to effective limitless computing
capacity to application suppliers" tiNazir et al. 2021, p. 3537)
Recommendations
The recommendation with the most significant impact will be migrating from
100baseTtilEEE 802.3u) to 1000baseT ti IEEE 802.3ab) and properly segmenting the
network. Based on the current state and structure of the network at each location the most
significant data bottleneck. Along with the data throughput there is also significant added
security risks to each network due to how they are structured and unsegmented.
The biggest advantages in migrating to a newer ethernet protocol and associated speed, will
be the improved data throughput. "However, the interconnection of dissimilar LANs and
devices over a high-speed backbone network can create congestion at a destination LAN
tioutput) gateway when more than one device or LAN attempt is made to communicate
simultaneously with the same device or LAN. We address the issue of congestion avoidance
in LANs interconnected by a high-speed backbone" tiHassanein 1997, p. 261). Through
migration to the 1000baseT standard and moving from a 100mbps to a 1000mbps
backbone, the ten fold increase in speed will prevent and or mitigate the majority of the
congestion. In combination with a network restructure to isolate like devices to their own
LAN, this will further prevent the congestion mentioned by Hassanein.
The most significant disadvantage to adopting this standard will be the cost and time
involved with such an upgrade. If building a new network there would not be a significant
difference in cost as most all newer devices have already adopted 1000baseT standard for
network connectivity. When considering International Plastics Inc. it may prove necessary to
not only upgrade and replace all switches, and routers, it may also be necessary to replace
some or all of the workstation computers if they do not have 1000baseT network cards or
purchase cards for each device. Additionally, even though CAT5 cabling is capable of
delivering 1000mbps speeds, depending on the length of the runs and cable degradation
since installation it may be necessary to replace significant amount of the cabling to avoid
loss in connectivity and speed. Finally attributing to the cost will be the need for additional
switches, patch panels, routers and cabling in order to facilitate the segmentation of the
new network infrastructure proposed.
Despite the disadvantage of cost, upgrading the LAN backbone at each site would provide
the most direct and significant impact for business performance. Each location has between
25 and 50 employees utilizing computers and around 25 VOIP phones. Provided an
estimated required bandwidth of 5Mbps per VOIP phone the 100Mbps connection could be
completely saturated if all 25 phones where in use. Although this is unlikely, in combination
with bandwidth needs of the computers and other devices a 100mbps connection is simply
not enough. Through this upgrade, it is expected that employees will have better call quality
leading to less repetition as well as faster access to LAN services such and exchange, and
NAS. All of these small improvements result in significant increases in eficiency and
productivity.
The Albany location has a singular T2 connection to the WAN which provides its connectivity
to the corporate headquarters building. Inside the location there are 20 computers and a
printer wired into a 48 ports patch panel and then a 48 port switch, there is a 24 port switch
which provides connectivity to the manufacturing floor all cabling at this site is CATS. There
is a NAS, and local ERP server at this location to provide local data backup which is protected
by a UPS in case of power failure. There is a fiber connection between the local ERP server
and the NAS to facilitate faster data access. Finally there is firewall monitoring the T2 WAN
connection to provide some additional security to the local network. The Pontiac location is
very similarly built to the Albany location with the exception that it is a larger network. The
Pontiac location has 45 computers running the same Windows 7 and Ofice 2007 along with
4 printers.
Running a business in an ever forward moving technological world ensuring that a business
is is keeping up with technology has become critical to maintaining and improving business
performance. "The advancement of technology and the changing global business
environment have compelled the transformation of a warehouse" tiKumar et al., 2021, p.
3470). Utilizing enhances tools for tracking warehouse inventory, production and progress,
will move the business towards increased performance and eficiency as data transparency
increases. This increased insight into production and stocks will lead to increased
manufacturing eficiency while also reducing waste and cost through more informed
ordering of materials and supplies. Beyond these changes and advancements, simply
upgrading the equipment that is on site will greatly improve eficiency. Upgrading the
infrastructure to allow for greater data transfer speeds between employee computers and
local storage, means it takes less time to open and save documents saved on the local NAS,
increased backup speeds, less time waiting for calculations to occur and applications to
load. All of these time savings accumulate into increased eficiency and performance. Adding
new cloud based solution into the new IT infrastructure will allow for future growth in
business compute needs, as well as allowing for a tertiary data backup beyond the local and
main data storage locations at the corporate headquarters. This is another example of how
upgrading the infrastructure will allow for the business to become more productive by
taking advantage of additional tools like cloud computing. "Cloud computing information
centers give high extensibility, achievement, and approach to effective limitless computing
capacity to application suppliers" tiNazir et al. 2021, p. 3537)
Recommendations
The recommendation with the most significant impact will be migrating from
100baseTtilEEE 802.3u) to 1000baseT ti IEEE 802.3ab) and properly segmenting the
network. Based on the current state and structure of the network at each location the most
significant data bottleneck. Along with the data throughput there is also significant added
security risks to each network due to how they are structured and unsegmented.
The biggest advantages in migrating to a newer ethernet protocol and associated speed, will
be the improved data throughput. "However, the interconnection of dissimilar LANs and
devices over a high-speed backbone network can create congestion at a destination LAN
tioutput) gateway when more than one device or LAN attempt is made to communicate
simultaneously with the same device or LAN. We address the issue of congestion avoidance
in LANs interconnected by a high-speed backbone" tiHassanein 1997, p. 261). Through
migration to the 1000baseT standard and moving from a 100mbps to a 1000mbps
backbone, the ten fold increase in speed will prevent and or mitigate the majority of the
congestion. In combination with a network restructure to isolate like devices to their own
LAN, this will further prevent the congestion mentioned by Hassanein.
The most significant disadvantage to adopting this standard will be the cost and time
involved with such an upgrade. If building a new network there would not be a significant
difference in cost as most all newer devices have already adopted 1000baseT standard for
network connectivity. When considering International Plastics Inc. it may prove necessary to
not only upgrade and replace all switches, and routers, it may also be necessary to replace
some or all of the workstation computers if they do not have 1000baseT network cards or
purchase cards for each device. Additionally, even though CAT5 cabling is capable of
delivering 1000mbps speeds, depending on the length of the runs and cable degradation
since installation it may be necessary to replace significant amount of the cabling to avoid
loss in connectivity and speed. Finally attributing to the cost will be the need for additional
switches, patch panels, routers and cabling in order to facilitate the segmentation of the
new network infrastructure proposed.
Despite the disadvantage of cost, upgrading the LAN backbone at each site would provide
the most direct and significant impact for business performance. Each location has between
25 and 50 employees utilizing computers and around 25 VOIP phones. Provided an
estimated required bandwidth of 5Mbps per VOIP phone the 100Mbps connection could be
completely saturated if all 25 phones where in use. Although this is unlikely, in combination
with bandwidth needs of the computers and other devices a 100mbps connection is simply
not enough. Through this upgrade, it is expected that employees will have better call quality
leading to less repetition as well as faster access to LAN services such and exchange, and
NAS. All of these small improvements result in significant increases in eficiency and
productivity.
The Albany location has a singular T2 connection to the WAN which provides its connectivity
to the corporate headquarters building. Inside the location there are 20 computers and a
printer wired into a 48 ports patch panel and then a 48 port switch, there is a 24 port switch
which provides connectivity to the manufacturing floor all cabling at this site is CATS. There
is a NAS, and local ERP server at this location to provide local data backup which is protected
by a UPS in case of power failure. There is a fiber connection between the local ERP server
and the NAS to facilitate faster data access. Finally there is firewall monitoring the T2 WAN
connection to provide some additional security to the local network. The Pontiac location is
very similarly built to the Albany location with the exception that it is a larger network. The
Pontiac location has 45 computers running the same Windows 7 and Ofice 2007 along with
4 printers.
Running a business in an ever forward moving technological world ensuring that a business
is is keeping up with technology has become critical to maintaining and improving business
performance. "The advancement of technology and the changing global business
environment have compelled the transformation of a warehouse" tiKumar et al., 2021, p.
3470). Utilizing enhances tools for tracking warehouse inventory, production and progress,
will move the business towards increased performance and eficiency as data transparency
increases. This increased insight into production and stocks will lead to increased
manufacturing eficiency while also reducing waste and cost through more informed
ordering of materials and supplies. Beyond these changes and advancements, simply
upgrading the equipment that is on site will greatly improve eficiency. Upgrading the
infrastructure to allow for greater data transfer speeds between employee computers and
local storage, means it takes less time to open and save documents saved on the local NAS,
increased backup speeds, less time waiting for calculations to occur and applications to
load. All of these time savings accumulate into increased eficiency and performance. Adding
new cloud based solution into the new IT infrastructure will allow for future growth in
business compute needs, as well as allowing for a tertiary data backup beyond the local and
main data storage locations at the corporate headquarters. This is another example of how
upgrading the infrastructure will allow for the business to become more productive by
taking advantage of additional tools like cloud computing. "Cloud computing information
centers give high extensibility, achievement, and approach to effective limitless computing
capacity to application suppliers" tiNazir et al. 2021, p. 3537)
Recommendations
The recommendation with the most significant impact will be migrating from
100baseTtilEEE 802.3u) to 1000baseT ti IEEE 802.3ab) and properly segmenting the
network. Based on the current state and structure of the network at each location the most
significant data bottleneck. Along with the data throughput there is also significant added
security risks to each network due to how they are structured and unsegmented.
The biggest advantages in migrating to a newer ethernet protocol and associated speed, will
be the improved data throughput. "However, the interconnection of dissimilar LANs and
devices over a high-speed backbone network can create congestion at a destination LAN
tioutput) gateway when more than one device or LAN attempt is made to communicate
simultaneously with the same device or LAN. We address the issue of congestion avoidance
in LANs interconnected by a high-speed backbone" tiHassanein 1997, p. 261). Through
migration to the 1000baseT standard and moving from a 100mbps to a 1000mbps
backbone, the ten fold increase in speed will prevent and or mitigate the majority of the
congestion. In combination with a network restructure to isolate like devices to their own
LAN, this will further prevent the congestion mentioned by Hassanein.
The most significant disadvantage to adopting this standard will be the cost and time
involved with such an upgrade. If building a new network there would not be a significant
difference in cost as most all newer devices have already adopted 1000baseT standard for
network connectivity. When considering International Plastics Inc. it may prove necessary to
not only upgrade and replace all switches, and routers, it may also be necessary to replace
some or all of the workstation computers if they do not have 1000baseT network cards or
purchase cards for each device. Additionally, even though CAT5 cabling is capable of
delivering 1000mbps speeds, depending on the length of the runs and cable degradation
since installation it may be necessary to replace significant amount of the cabling to avoid
loss in connectivity and speed. Finally attributing to the cost will be the need for additional
switches, patch panels, routers and cabling in order to facilitate the segmentation of the
new network infrastructure proposed.
Despite the disadvantage of cost, upgrading the LAN backbone at each site would provide
the most direct and significant impact for business performance. Each location has between
25 and 50 employees utilizing computers and around 25 VOIP phones. Provided an
estimated required bandwidth of 5Mbps per VOIP phone the 100Mbps connection could be
completely saturated if all 25 phones where in use. Although this is unlikely, in combination
with bandwidth needs of the computers and other devices a 100mbps connection is simply
not enough. Through this upgrade, it is expected that employees will have better call quality
leading to less repetition as well as faster access to LAN services such and exchange, and
NAS. All of these small improvements result in significant increases in eficiency and
productivity.
The Albany location has a singular T2 connection to the WAN which provides its connectivity
to the corporate headquarters building. Inside the location there are 20 computers and a
printer wired into a 48 ports patch panel and then a 48 port switch, there is a 24 port switch
which provides connectivity to the manufacturing floor all cabling at this site is CATS. There
is a NAS, and local ERP server at this location to provide local data backup which is protected
by a UPS in case of power failure. There is a fiber connection between the local ERP server
and the NAS to facilitate faster data access. Finally there is firewall monitoring the T2 WAN
connection to provide some additional security to the local network. The Pontiac location is
very similarly built to the Albany location with the exception that it is a larger network. The
Pontiac location has 45 computers running the same Windows 7 and Ofice 2007 along with
4 printers.
Running a business in an ever forward moving technological world ensuring that a business
is is keeping up with technology has become critical to maintaining and improving business
performance. "The advancement of technology and the changing global business
environment have compelled the transformation of a warehouse" tiKumar et al., 2021, p.
3470). Utilizing enhances tools for tracking warehouse inventory, production and progress,
will move the business towards increased performance and eficiency as data transparency
increases. This increased insight into production and stocks will lead to increased
manufacturing eficiency while also reducing waste and cost through more informed
ordering of materials and supplies. Beyond these changes and advancements, simply
upgrading the equipment that is on site will greatly improve eficiency. Upgrading the
infrastructure to allow for greater data transfer speeds between employee computers and
local storage, means it takes less time to open and save documents saved on the local NAS,
increased backup speeds, less time waiting for calculations to occur and applications to
load. All of these time savings accumulate into increased eficiency and performance. Adding
new cloud based solution into the new IT infrastructure will allow for future growth in
business compute needs, as well as allowing for a tertiary data backup beyond the local and
main data storage locations at the corporate headquarters. This is another example of how
upgrading the infrastructure will allow for the business to become more productive by
taking advantage of additional tools like cloud computing. "Cloud computing information
centers give high extensibility, achievement, and approach to effective limitless computing
capacity to application suppliers" tiNazir et al. 2021, p. 3537)
Recommendations
The recommendation with the most significant impact will be migrating from
100baseTtilEEE 802.3u) to 1000baseT ti IEEE 802.3ab) and properly segmenting the
network. Based on the current state and structure of the network at each location the most
significant data bottleneck. Along with the data throughput there is also significant added
security risks to each network due to how they are structured and unsegmented.
The biggest advantages in migrating to a newer ethernet protocol and associated speed, will
be the improved data throughput. "However, the interconnection of dissimilar LANs and
devices over a high-speed backbone network can create congestion at a destination LAN
tioutput) gateway when more than one device or LAN attempt is made to communicate
simultaneously with the same device or LAN. We address the issue of congestion avoidance
in LANs interconnected by a high-speed backbone" tiHassanein 1997, p. 261). Through
migration to the 1000baseT standard and moving from a 100mbps to a 1000mbps
backbone, the ten fold increase in speed will prevent and or mitigate the majority of the
congestion. In combination with a network restructure to isolate like devices to their own
LAN, this will further prevent the congestion mentioned by Hassanein.
The most significant disadvantage to adopting this standard will be the cost and time
involved with such an upgrade. If building a new network there would not be a significant
difference in cost as most all newer devices have already adopted 1000baseT standard for
network connectivity. When considering International Plastics Inc. it may prove necessary to
not only upgrade and replace all switches, and routers, it may also be necessary to replace
some or all of the workstation computers if they do not have 1000baseT network cards or
purchase cards for each device. Additionally, even though CAT5 cabling is capable of
delivering 1000mbps speeds, depending on the length of the runs and cable degradation
since installation it may be necessary to replace significant amount of the cabling to avoid
loss in connectivity and speed. Finally attributing to the cost will be the need for additional
switches, patch panels, routers and cabling in order to facilitate the segmentation of the
new network infrastructure proposed.
Despite the disadvantage of cost, upgrading the LAN backbone at each site would provide
the most direct and significant impact for business performance. Each location has between
25 and 50 employees utilizing computers and around 25 VOIP phones. Provided an
estimated required bandwidth of 5Mbps per VOIP phone the 100Mbps connection could be
completely saturated if all 25 phones where in use. Although this is unlikely, in combination
with bandwidth needs of the computers and other devices a 100mbps connection is simply
not enough. Through this upgrade, it is expected that employees will have better call quality
leading to less repetition as well as faster access to LAN services such and exchange, and
NAS. All of these small improvements result in significant increases in eficiency and
productivity.
The Albany location has a singular T2 connection to the WAN which provides its connectivity
to the corporate headquarters building. Inside the location there are 20 computers and a
printer wired into a 48 ports patch panel and then a 48 port switch, there is a 24 port switch
which provides connectivity to the manufacturing floor all cabling at this site is CATS. There
is a NAS, and local ERP server at this location to provide local data backup which is protected
by a UPS in case of power failure. There is a fiber connection between the local ERP server
and the NAS to facilitate faster data access. Finally there is firewall monitoring the T2 WAN
connection to provide some additional security to the local network. The Pontiac location is
very similarly built to the Albany location with the exception that it is a larger network. The
Pontiac location has 45 computers running the same Windows 7 and Ofice 2007 along with
4 printers.
Running a business in an ever forward moving technological world ensuring that a business
is is keeping up with technology has become critical to maintaining and improving business
performance. "The advancement of technology and the changing global business
environment have compelled the transformation of a warehouse" tiKumar et al., 2021, p.
3470). Utilizing enhances tools for tracking warehouse inventory, production and progress,
will move the business towards increased performance and eficiency as data transparency
increases. This increased insight into production and stocks will lead to increased
manufacturing eficiency while also reducing waste and cost through more informed
ordering of materials and supplies. Beyond these changes and advancements, simply
upgrading the equipment that is on site will greatly improve eficiency. Upgrading the
infrastructure to allow for greater data transfer speeds between employee computers and
local storage, means it takes less time to open and save documents saved on the local NAS,
increased backup speeds, less time waiting for calculations to occur and applications to
load. All of these time savings accumulate into increased eficiency and performance. Adding
new cloud based solution into the new IT infrastructure will allow for future growth in
business compute needs, as well as allowing for a tertiary data backup beyond the local and
main data storage locations at the corporate headquarters. This is another example of how
upgrading the infrastructure will allow for the business to become more productive by
taking advantage of additional tools like cloud computing. "Cloud computing information
centers give high extensibility, achievement, and approach to effective limitless computing
capacity to application suppliers" tiNazir et al. 2021, p. 3537)
Recommendations
The recommendation with the most significant impact will be migrating from
100baseTtilEEE 802.3u) to 1000baseT ti IEEE 802.3ab) and properly segmenting the
network. Based on the current state and structure of the network at each location the most
significant data bottleneck. Along with the data throughput there is also significant added
security risks to each network due to how they are structured and unsegmented.
The biggest advantages in migrating to a newer ethernet protocol and associated speed, will
be the improved data throughput. "However, the interconnection of dissimilar LANs and
devices over a high-speed backbone network can create congestion at a destination LAN
tioutput) gateway when more than one device or LAN attempt is made to communicate
simultaneously with the same device or LAN. We address the issue of congestion avoidance
in LANs interconnected by a high-speed backbone" tiHassanein 1997, p. 261). Through
migration to the 1000baseT standard and moving from a 100mbps to a 1000mbps
backbone, the ten fold increase in speed will prevent and or mitigate the majority of the
congestion. In combination with a network restructure to isolate like devices to their own
LAN, this will further prevent the congestion mentioned by Hassanein.
The most significant disadvantage to adopting this standard will be the cost and time
involved with such an upgrade. If building a new network there would not be a significant
difference in cost as most all newer devices have already adopted 1000baseT standard for
network connectivity. When considering International Plastics Inc. it may prove necessary to
not only upgrade and replace all switches, and routers, it may also be necessary to replace
some or all of the workstation computers if they do not have 1000baseT network cards or
purchase cards for each device. Additionally, even though CAT5 cabling is capable of
delivering 1000mbps speeds, depending on the length of the runs and cable degradation
since installation it may be necessary to replace significant amount of the cabling to avoid
loss in connectivity and speed. Finally attributing to the cost will be the need for additional
switches, patch panels, routers and cabling in order to facilitate the segmentation of the
new network infrastructure proposed.
Despite the disadvantage of cost, upgrading the LAN backbone at each site would provide
the most direct and significant impact for business performance. Each location has between
25 and 50 employees utilizing computers and around 25 VOIP phones. Provided an
estimated required bandwidth of 5Mbps per VOIP phone the 100Mbps connection could be
completely saturated if all 25 phones where in use. Although this is unlikely, in combination
with bandwidth needs of the computers and other devices a 100mbps connection is simply
not enough. Through this upgrade, it is expected that employees will have better call quality
leading to less repetition as well as faster access to LAN services such and exchange, and
NAS. All of these small improvements result in significant increases in eficiency and
productivity.
The Albany location has a singular T2 connection to the WAN which provides its connectivity
to the corporate headquarters building. Inside the location there are 20 computers and a
printer wired into a 48 ports patch panel and then a 48 port switch, there is a 24 port switch
which provides connectivity to the manufacturing floor all cabling at this site is CATS. There
is a NAS, and local ERP server at this location to provide local data backup which is protected
by a UPS in case of power failure. There is a fiber connection between the local ERP server
and the NAS to facilitate faster data access. Finally there is firewall monitoring the T2 WAN
connection to provide some additional security to the local network. The Pontiac location is
very similarly built to the Albany location with the exception that it is a larger network. The
Pontiac location has 45 computers running the same Windows 7 and Ofice 2007 along with
4 printers.
Running a business in an ever forward moving technological world ensuring that a business
is is keeping up with technology has become critical to maintaining and improving business
performance. "The advancement of technology and the changing global business
environment have compelled the transformation of a warehouse" tiKumar et al., 2021, p.
3470). Utilizing enhances tools for tracking warehouse inventory, production and progress,
will move the business towards increased performance and eficiency as data transparency
increases. This increased insight into production and stocks will lead to increased
manufacturing eficiency while also reducing waste and cost through more informed
ordering of materials and supplies. Beyond these changes and advancements, simply
upgrading the equipment that is on site will greatly improve eficiency. Upgrading the
infrastructure to allow for greater data transfer speeds between employee computers and
local storage, means it takes less time to open and save documents saved on the local NAS,
increased backup speeds, less time waiting for calculations to occur and applications to
load. All of these time savings accumulate into increased eficiency and performance. Adding
new cloud based solution into the new IT infrastructure will allow for future growth in
business compute needs, as well as allowing for a tertiary data backup beyond the local and
main data storage locations at the corporate headquarters. This is another example of how
upgrading the infrastructure will allow for the business to become more productive by
taking advantage of additional tools like cloud computing. "Cloud computing information
centers give high extensibility, achievement, and approach to effective limitless computing
capacity to application suppliers" tiNazir et al. 2021, p. 3537)
Recommendations
The recommendation with the most significant impact will be migrating from
100baseTtilEEE 802.3u) to 1000baseT ti IEEE 802.3ab) and properly segmenting the
network. Based on the current state and structure of the network at each location the most
significant data bottleneck. Along with the data throughput there is also significant added
security risks to each network due to how they are structured and unsegmented.
The biggest advantages in migrating to a newer ethernet protocol and associated speed, will
be the improved data throughput. "However, the interconnection of dissimilar LANs and
devices over a high-speed backbone network can create congestion at a destination LAN
tioutput) gateway when more than one device or LAN attempt is made to communicate
simultaneously with the same device or LAN. We address the issue of congestion avoidance
in LANs interconnected by a high-speed backbone" tiHassanein 1997, p. 261). Through
migration to the 1000baseT standard and moving from a 100mbps to a 1000mbps
backbone, the ten fold increase in speed will prevent and or mitigate the majority of the
congestion. In combination with a network restructure to isolate like devices to their own
LAN, this will further prevent the congestion mentioned by Hassanein.
The most significant disadvantage to adopting this standard will be the cost and time
involved with such an upgrade. If building a new network there would not be a significant
difference in cost as most all newer devices have already adopted 1000baseT standard for
network connectivity. When considering International Plastics Inc. it may prove necessary to
not only upgrade and replace all switches, and routers, it may also be necessary to replace
some or all of the workstation computers if they do not have 1000baseT network cards or
purchase cards for each device. Additionally, even though CAT5 cabling is capable of
delivering 1000mbps speeds, depending on the length of the runs and cable degradation
since installation it may be necessary to replace significant amount of the cabling to avoid
loss in connectivity and speed. Finally attributing to the cost will be the need for additional
switches, patch panels, routers and cabling in order to facilitate the segmentation of the
new network infrastructure proposed.
Despite the disadvantage of cost, upgrading the LAN backbone at each site would provide
the most direct and significant impact for business performance. Each location has between
25 and 50 employees utilizing computers and around 25 VOIP phones. Provided an
estimated required bandwidth of 5Mbps per VOIP phone the 100Mbps connection could be
completely saturated if all 25 phones where in use. Although this is unlikely, in combination
with bandwidth needs of the computers and other devices a 100mbps connection is simply
not enough. Through this upgrade, it is expected that employees will have better call quality
leading to less repetition as well as faster access to LAN services such and exchange, and
NAS. All of these small improvements result in significant increases in eficiency and
productivity.
The Albany location has a singular T2 connection to the WAN which provides its connectivity
to the corporate headquarters building. Inside the location there are 20 computers and a
printer wired into a 48 ports patch panel and then a 48 port switch, there is a 24 port switch
which provides connectivity to the manufacturing floor all cabling at this site is CATS. There
is a NAS, and local ERP server at this location to provide local data backup which is protected
by a UPS in case of power failure. There is a fiber connection between the local ERP server
and the NAS to facilitate faster data access. Finally there is firewall monitoring the T2 WAN
connection to provide some additional security to the local network. The Pontiac location is
very similarly built to the Albany location with the exception that it is a larger network. The
Pontiac location has 45 computers running the same Windows 7 and Ofice 2007 along with
4 printers.
Running a business in an ever forward moving technological world ensuring that a business
is is keeping up with technology has become critical to maintaining and improving business
performance. "The advancement of technology and the changing global business
environment have compelled the transformation of a warehouse" tiKumar et al., 2021, p.
3470). Utilizing enhances tools for tracking warehouse inventory, production and progress,
will move the business towards increased performance and eficiency as data transparency
increases. This increased insight into production and stocks will lead to increased
manufacturing eficiency while also reducing waste and cost through more informed
ordering of materials and supplies. Beyond these changes and advancements, simply
upgrading the equipment that is on site will greatly improve eficiency. Upgrading the
infrastructure to allow for greater data transfer speeds between employee computers and
local storage, means it takes less time to open and save documents saved on the local NAS,
increased backup speeds, less time waiting for calculations to occur and applications to
load. All of these time savings accumulate into increased eficiency and performance. Adding
new cloud based solution into the new IT infrastructure will allow for future growth in
business compute needs, as well as allowing for a tertiary data backup beyond the local and
main data storage locations at the corporate headquarters. This is another example of how
upgrading the infrastructure will allow for the business to become more productive by
taking advantage of additional tools like cloud computing. "Cloud computing information
centers give high extensibility, achievement, and approach to effective limitless computing
capacity to application suppliers" tiNazir et al. 2021, p. 3537)
Recommendations
The recommendation with the most significant impact will be migrating from
100baseTtilEEE 802.3u) to 1000baseT ti IEEE 802.3ab) and properly segmenting the
network. Based on the current state and structure of the network at each location the most
significant data bottleneck. Along with the data throughput there is also significant added
security risks to each network due to how they are structured and unsegmented.
The biggest advantages in migrating to a newer ethernet protocol and associated speed, will
be the improved data throughput. "However, the interconnection of dissimilar LANs and
devices over a high-speed backbone network can create congestion at a destination LAN
tioutput) gateway when more than one device or LAN attempt is made to communicate
simultaneously with the same device or LAN. We address the issue of congestion avoidance
in LANs interconnected by a high-speed backbone" tiHassanein 1997, p. 261). Through
migration to the 1000baseT standard and moving from a 100mbps to a 1000mbps
backbone, the ten fold increase in speed will prevent and or mitigate the majority of the
congestion. In combination with a network restructure to isolate like devices to their own
LAN, this will further prevent the congestion mentioned by Hassanein.
The most significant disadvantage to adopting this standard will be the cost and time
involved with such an upgrade. If building a new network there would not be a significant
difference in cost as most all newer devices have already adopted 1000baseT standard for
network connectivity. When considering International Plastics Inc. it may prove necessary to
not only upgrade and replace all switches, and routers, it may also be necessary to replace
some or all of the workstation computers if they do not have 1000baseT network cards or
purchase cards for each device. Additionally, even though CAT5 cabling is capable of
delivering 1000mbps speeds, depending on the length of the runs and cable degradation
since installation it may be necessary to replace significant amount of the cabling to avoid
loss in connectivity and speed. Finally attributing to the cost will be the need for additional
switches, patch panels, routers and cabling in order to facilitate the segmentation of the
new network infrastructure proposed.
Despite the disadvantage of cost, upgrading the LAN backbone at each site would provide
the most direct and significant impact for business performance. Each location has between
25 and 50 employees utilizing computers and around 25 VOIP phones. Provided an
estimated required bandwidth of 5Mbps per VOIP phone the 100Mbps connection could be
completely saturated if all 25 phones where in use. Although this is unlikely, in combination
with bandwidth needs of the computers and other devices a 100mbps connection is simply
not enough. Through this upgrade, it is expected that employees will have better call quality
leading to less repetition as well as faster access to LAN services such and exchange, and
NAS. All of these small improvements result in significant increases in eficiency and
productivity.
The Albany location has a singular T2 connection to the WAN which provides its connectivity
to the corporate headquarters building. Inside the location there are 20 computers and a
printer wired into a 48 ports patch panel and then a 48 port switch, there is a 24 port switch
which provides connectivity to the manufacturing floor all cabling at this site is CATS. There
is a NAS, and local ERP server at this location to provide local data backup which is protected
by a UPS in case of power failure. There is a fiber connection between the local ERP server
and the NAS to facilitate faster data access. Finally there is firewall monitoring the T2 WAN
connection to provide some additional security to the local network. The Pontiac location is
very similarly built to the Albany location with the exception that it is a larger network. The
Pontiac location has 45 computers running the same Windows 7 and Ofice 2007 along with
4 printers.
Running a business in an ever forward moving technological world ensuring that a business
is is keeping up with technology has become critical to maintaining and improving business
performance. "The advancement of technology and the changing global business
environment have compelled the transformation of a warehouse" tiKumar et al., 2021, p.
3470). Utilizing enhances tools for tracking warehouse inventory, production and progress,
will move the business towards increased performance and eficiency as data transparency
increases. This increased insight into production and stocks will lead to increased
manufacturing eficiency while also reducing waste and cost through more informed
ordering of materials and supplies. Beyond these changes and advancements, simply
upgrading the equipment that is on site will greatly improve eficiency. Upgrading the
infrastructure to allow for greater data transfer speeds between employee computers and
local storage, means it takes less time to open and save documents saved on the local NAS,
increased backup speeds, less time waiting for calculations to occur and applications to
load. All of these time savings accumulate into increased eficiency and performance. Adding
new cloud based solution into the new IT infrastructure will allow for future growth in
business compute needs, as well as allowing for a tertiary data backup beyond the local and
main data storage locations at the corporate headquarters. This is another example of how
upgrading the infrastructure will allow for the business to become more productive by
taking advantage of additional tools like cloud computing. "Cloud computing information
centers give high extensibility, achievement, and approach to effective limitless computing
capacity to application suppliers" tiNazir et al. 2021, p. 3537)
Recommendations
The recommendation with the most significant impact will be migrating from
100baseTtilEEE 802.3u) to 1000baseT ti IEEE 802.3ab) and properly segmenting the
network. Based on the current state and structure of the network at each location the most
significant data bottleneck. Along with the data throughput there is also significant added
security risks to each network due to how they are structured and unsegmented.
The biggest advantages in migrating to a newer ethernet protocol and associated speed, will
be the improved data throughput. "However, the interconnection of dissimilar LANs and
devices over a high-speed backbone network can create congestion at a destination LAN
tioutput) gateway when more than one device or LAN attempt is made to communicate
simultaneously with the same device or LAN. We address the issue of congestion avoidance
in LANs interconnected by a high-speed backbone" tiHassanein 1997, p. 261). Through
migration to the 1000baseT standard and moving from a 100mbps to a 1000mbps
backbone, the ten fold increase in speed will prevent and or mitigate the majority of the
congestion. In combination with a network restructure to isolate like devices to their own
LAN, this will further prevent the congestion mentioned by Hassanein.
The most significant disadvantage to adopting this standard will be the cost and time
involved with such an upgrade. If building a new network there would not be a significant
difference in cost as most all newer devices have already adopted 1000baseT standard for
network connectivity. When considering International Plastics Inc. it may prove necessary to
not only upgrade and replace all switches, and routers, it may also be necessary to replace
some or all of the workstation computers if they do not have 1000baseT network cards or
purchase cards for each device. Additionally, even though CAT5 cabling is capable of
delivering 1000mbps speeds, depending on the length of the runs and cable degradation
since installation it may be necessary to replace significant amount of the cabling to avoid
loss in connectivity and speed. Finally attributing to the cost will be the need for additional
switches, patch panels, routers and cabling in order to facilitate the segmentation of the
new network infrastructure proposed.
Despite the disadvantage of cost, upgrading the LAN backbone at each site would provide
the most direct and significant impact for business performance. Each location has between
25 and 50 employees utilizing computers and around 25 VOIP phones. Provided an
estimated required bandwidth of 5Mbps per VOIP phone the 100Mbps connection could be
completely saturated if all 25 phones where in use. Although this is unlikely, in combination
with bandwidth needs of the computers and other devices a 100mbps connection is simply
not enough. Through this upgrade, it is expected that employees will have better call quality
leading to less repetition as well as faster access to LAN services such and exchange, and
NAS. All of these small improvements result in significant increases in eficiency and
productivity.
The Albany location has a singular T2 connection to the WAN which provides its connectivity
to the corporate headquarters building. Inside the location there are 20 computers and a
printer wired into a 48 ports patch panel and then a 48 port switch, there is a 24 port switch
which provides connectivity to the manufacturing floor all cabling at this site is CATS. There
is a NAS, and local ERP server at this location to provide local data backup which is protected
by a UPS in case of power failure. There is a fiber connection between the local ERP server
and the NAS to facilitate faster data access. Finally there is firewall monitoring the T2 WAN
connection to provide some additional security to the local network. The Pontiac location is
very similarly built to the Albany location with the exception that it is a larger network. The
Pontiac location has 45 computers running the same Windows 7 and Ofice 2007 along with
4 printers.
Running a business in an ever forward moving technological world ensuring that a business
is is keeping up with technology has become critical to maintaining and improving business
performance. "The advancement of technology and the changing global business
environment have compelled the transformation of a warehouse" tiKumar et al., 2021, p.
3470). Utilizing enhances tools for tracking warehouse inventory, production and progress,
will move the business towards increased performance and eficiency as data transparency
increases. This increased insight into production and stocks will lead to increased
manufacturing eficiency while also reducing waste and cost through more informed
ordering of materials and supplies. Beyond these changes and advancements, simply
upgrading the equipment that is on site will greatly improve eficiency. Upgrading the
infrastructure to allow for greater data transfer speeds between employee computers and
local storage, means it takes less time to open and save documents saved on the local NAS,
increased backup speeds, less time waiting for calculations to occur and applications to
load. All of these time savings accumulate into increased eficiency and performance. Adding
new cloud based solution into the new IT infrastructure will allow for future growth in
business compute needs, as well as allowing for a tertiary data backup beyond the local and
main data storage locations at the corporate headquarters. This is another example of how
upgrading the infrastructure will allow for the business to become more productive by
taking advantage of additional tools like cloud computing. "Cloud computing information
centers give high extensibility, achievement, and approach to effective limitless computing
capacity to application suppliers" tiNazir et al. 2021, p. 3537)
Recommendations
The recommendation with the most significant impact will be migrating from
100baseTtilEEE 802.3u) to 1000baseT ti IEEE 802.3ab) and properly segmenting the
network. Based on the current state and structure of the network at each location the most
significant data bottleneck. Along with the data throughput there is also significant added
security risks to each network due to how they are structured and unsegmented.
The biggest advantages in migrating to a newer ethernet protocol and associated speed, will
be the improved data throughput. "However, the interconnection of dissimilar LANs and
devices over a high-speed backbone network can create congestion at a destination LAN
tioutput) gateway when more than one device or LAN attempt is made to communicate
simultaneously with the same device or LAN. We address the issue of congestion avoidance
in LANs interconnected by a high-speed backbone" tiHassanein 1997, p. 261). Through
migration to the 1000baseT standard and moving from a 100mbps to a 1000mbps
backbone, the ten fold increase in speed will prevent and or mitigate the majority of the
congestion. In combination with a network restructure to isolate like devices to their own
LAN, this will further prevent the congestion mentioned by Hassanein.
The most significant disadvantage to adopting this standard will be the cost and time
involved with such an upgrade. If building a new network there would not be a significant
difference in cost as most all newer devices have already adopted 1000baseT standard for
network connectivity. When considering International Plastics Inc. it may prove necessary to
not only upgrade and replace all switches, and routers, it may also be necessary to replace
some or all of the workstation computers if they do not have 1000baseT network cards or
purchase cards for each device. Additionally, even though CAT5 cabling is capable of
delivering 1000mbps speeds, depending on the length of the runs and cable degradation
since installation it may be necessary to replace significant amount of the cabling to avoid
loss in connectivity and speed. Finally attributing to the cost will be the need for additional
switches, patch panels, routers and cabling in order to facilitate the segmentation of the
new network infrastructure proposed.
Despite the disadvantage of cost, upgrading the LAN backbone at each site would provide
the most direct and significant impact for business performance. Each location has between
25 and 50 employees utilizing computers and around 25 VOIP phones. Provided an
estimated required bandwidth of 5Mbps per VOIP phone the 100Mbps connection could be
completely saturated if all 25 phones where in use. Although this is unlikely, in combination
with bandwidth needs of the computers and other devices a 100mbps connection is simply
not enough. Through this upgrade, it is expected that employees will have better call quality
leading to less repetition as well as faster access to LAN services such and exchange, and
NAS. All of these small improvements result in significant increases in eficiency and
productivity.
The Albany location has a singular T2 connection to the WAN which provides its connectivity
to the corporate headquarters building. Inside the location there are 20 computers and a
printer wired into a 48 ports patch panel and then a 48 port switch, there is a 24 port switch
which provides connectivity to the manufacturing floor all cabling at this site is CATS. There
is a NAS, and local ERP server at this location to provide local data backup which is protected
by a UPS in case of power failure. There is a fiber connection between the local ERP server
and the NAS to facilitate faster data access. Finally there is firewall monitoring the T2 WAN
connection to provide some additional security to the local network. The Pontiac location is
very similarly built to the Albany location with the exception that it is a larger network. The
Pontiac location has 45 computers running the same Windows 7 and Ofice 2007 along with
4 printers.
Running a business in an ever forward moving technological world ensuring that a business
is is keeping up with technology has become critical to maintaining and improving business
performance. "The advancement of technology and the changing global business
environment have compelled the transformation of a warehouse" tiKumar et al., 2021, p.
3470). Utilizing enhances tools for tracking warehouse inventory, production and progress,
will move the business towards increased performance and eficiency as data transparency
increases. This increased insight into production and stocks will lead to increased
manufacturing eficiency while also reducing waste and cost through more informed
ordering of materials and supplies. Beyond these changes and advancements, simply
upgrading the equipment that is on site will greatly improve eficiency. Upgrading the
infrastructure to allow for greater data transfer speeds between employee computers and
local storage, means it takes less time to open and save documents saved on the local NAS,
increased backup speeds, less time waiting for calculations to occur and applications to
load. All of these time savings accumulate into increased eficiency and performance. Adding
new cloud based solution into the new IT infrastructure will allow for future growth in
business compute needs, as well as allowing for a tertiary data backup beyond the local and
main data storage locations at the corporate headquarters. This is another example of how
upgrading the infrastructure will allow for the business to become more productive by
taking advantage of additional tools like cloud computing. "Cloud computing information
centers give high extensibility, achievement, and approach to effective limitless computing
capacity to application suppliers" tiNazir et al. 2021, p. 3537)
Recommendations
The recommendation with the most significant impact will be migrating from
100baseTtilEEE 802.3u) to 1000baseT ti IEEE 802.3ab) and properly segmenting the
network. Based on the current state and structure of the network at each location the most
significant data bottleneck. Along with the data throughput there is also significant added
security risks to each network due to how they are structured and unsegmented.
The biggest advantages in migrating to a newer ethernet protocol and associated speed, will
be the improved data throughput. "However, the interconnection of dissimilar LANs and
devices over a high-speed backbone network can create congestion at a destination LAN
tioutput) gateway when more than one device or LAN attempt is made to communicate
simultaneously with the same device or LAN. We address the issue of congestion avoidance
in LANs interconnected by a high-speed backbone" tiHassanein 1997, p. 261). Through
migration to the 1000baseT standard and moving from a 100mbps to a 1000mbps
backbone, the ten fold increase in speed will prevent and or mitigate the majority of the
congestion. In combination with a network restructure to isolate like devices to their own
LAN, this will further prevent the congestion mentioned by Hassanein.
The most significant disadvantage to adopting this standard will be the cost and time
involved with such an upgrade. If building a new network there would not be a significant
difference in cost as most all newer devices have already adopted 1000baseT standard for
network connectivity. When considering International Plastics Inc. it may prove necessary to
not only upgrade and replace all switches, and routers, it may also be necessary to replace
some or all of the workstation computers if they do not have 1000baseT network cards or
purchase cards for each device. Additionally, even though CAT5 cabling is capable of
delivering 1000mbps speeds, depending on the length of the runs and cable degradation
since installation it may be necessary to replace significant amount of the cabling to avoid
loss in connectivity and speed. Finally attributing to the cost will be the need for additional
switches, patch panels, routers and cabling in order to facilitate the segmentation of the
new network infrastructure proposed.
Despite the disadvantage of cost, upgrading the LAN backbone at each site would provide
the most direct and significant impact for business performance. Each location has between
25 and 50 employees utilizing computers and around 25 VOIP phones. Provided an
estimated required bandwidth of 5Mbps per VOIP phone the 100Mbps connection could be
completely saturated if all 25 phones where in use. Although this is unlikely, in combination
with bandwidth needs of the computers and other devices a 100mbps connection is simply
not enough. Through this upgrade, it is expected that employees will have better call quality
leading to less repetition as well as faster access to LAN services such and exchange, and
NAS. All of these small improvements result in significant increases in eficiency and
productivity.
The Albany location has a singular T2 connection to the WAN which provides its connectivity
to the corporate headquarters building. Inside the location there are 20 computers and a
printer wired into a 48 ports patch panel and then a 48 port switch, there is a 24 port switch
which provides connectivity to the manufacturing floor all cabling at this site is CATS. There
is a NAS, and local ERP server at this location to provide local data backup which is protected
by a UPS in case of power failure. There is a fiber connection between the local ERP server
and the NAS to facilitate faster data access. Finally there is firewall monitoring the T2 WAN
connection to provide some additional security to the local network. The Pontiac location is
very similarly built to the Albany location with the exception that it is a larger network. The
Pontiac location has 45 computers running the same Windows 7 and Ofice 2007 along with
4 printers.
Running a business in an ever forward moving technological world ensuring that a business
is is keeping up with technology has become critical to maintaining and improving business
performance. "The advancement of technology and the changing global business
environment have compelled the transformation of a warehouse" tiKumar et al., 2021, p.
3470). Utilizing enhances tools for tracking warehouse inventory, production and progress,
will move the business towards increased performance and eficiency as data transparency
increases. This increased insight into production and stocks will lead to increased
manufacturing eficiency while also reducing waste and cost through more informed
ordering of materials and supplies. Beyond these changes and advancements, simply
upgrading the equipment that is on site will greatly improve eficiency. Upgrading the
infrastructure to allow for greater data transfer speeds between employee computers and
local storage, means it takes less time to open and save documents saved on the local NAS,
increased backup speeds, less time waiting for calculations to occur and applications to
load. All of these time savings accumulate into increased eficiency and performance. Adding
new cloud based solution into the new IT infrastructure will allow for future growth in
business compute needs, as well as allowing for a tertiary data backup beyond the local and
main data storage locations at the corporate headquarters. This is another example of how
upgrading the infrastructure will allow for the business to become more productive by
taking advantage of additional tools like cloud computing. "Cloud computing information
centers give high extensibility, achievement, and approach to effective limitless computing
capacity to application suppliers" tiNazir et al. 2021, p. 3537)
Recommendations
The recommendation with the most significant impact will be migrating from
100baseTtilEEE 802.3u) to 1000baseT ti IEEE 802.3ab) and properly segmenting the
network. Based on the current state and structure of the network at each location the most
significant data bottleneck. Along with the data throughput there is also significant added
security risks to each network due to how they are structured and unsegmented.
The biggest advantages in migrating to a newer ethernet protocol and associated speed, will
be the improved data throughput. "However, the interconnection of dissimilar LANs and
devices over a high-speed backbone network can create congestion at a destination LAN
tioutput) gateway when more than one device or LAN attempt is made to communicate
simultaneously with the same device or LAN. We address the issue of congestion avoidance
in LANs interconnected by a high-speed backbone" tiHassanein 1997, p. 261). Through
migration to the 1000baseT standard and moving from a 100mbps to a 1000mbps
backbone, the ten fold increase in speed will prevent and or mitigate the majority of the
congestion. In combination with a network restructure to isolate like devices to their own
LAN, this will further prevent the congestion mentioned by Hassanein.
The most significant disadvantage to adopting this standard will be the cost and time
involved with such an upgrade. If building a new network there would not be a significant
difference in cost as most all newer devices have already adopted 1000baseT standard for
network connectivity. When considering International Plastics Inc. it may prove necessary to
not only upgrade and replace all switches, and routers, it may also be necessary to replace
some or all of the workstation computers if they do not have 1000baseT network cards or
purchase cards for each device. Additionally, even though CAT5 cabling is capable of
delivering 1000mbps speeds, depending on the length of the runs and cable degradation
since installation it may be necessary to replace significant amount of the cabling to avoid
loss in connectivity and speed. Finally attributing to the cost will be the need for additional
switches, patch panels, routers and cabling in order to facilitate the segmentation of the
new network infrastructure proposed.
Despite the disadvantage of cost, upgrading the LAN backbone at each site would provide
the most direct and significant impact for business performance. Each location has between
25 and 50 employees utilizing computers and around 25 VOIP phones. Provided an
estimated required bandwidth of 5Mbps per VOIP phone the 100Mbps connection could be
completely saturated if all 25 phones where in use. Although this is unlikely, in combination
with bandwidth needs of the computers and other devices a 100mbps connection is simply
not enough. Through this upgrade, it is expected that employees will have better call quality
leading to less repetition as well as faster access to LAN services such and exchange, and
NAS. All of these small improvements result in significant increases in eficiency and
productivity.
The Albany location has a singular T2 connection to the WAN which provides its connectivity
to the corporate headquarters building. Inside the location there are 20 computers and a
printer wired into a 48 ports patch panel and then a 48 port switch, there is a 24 port switch
which provides connectivity to the manufacturing floor all cabling at this site is CATS. There
is a NAS, and local ERP server at this location to provide local data backup which is protected
by a UPS in case of power failure. There is a fiber connection between the local ERP server
and the NAS to facilitate faster data access. Finally there is firewall monitoring the T2 WAN
connection to provide some additional security to the local network. The Pontiac location is
very similarly built to the Albany location with the exception that it is a larger network. The
Pontiac location has 45 computers running the same Windows 7 and Ofice 2007 along with
4 printers.
Running a business in an ever forward moving technological world ensuring that a business
is is keeping up with technology has become critical to maintaining and improving business
performance. "The advancement of technology and the changing global business
environment have compelled the transformation of a warehouse" tiKumar et al., 2021, p.
3470). Utilizing enhances tools for tracking warehouse inventory, production and progress,
will move the business towards increased performance and eficiency as data transparency
increases. This increased insight into production and stocks will lead to increased
manufacturing eficiency while also reducing waste and cost through more informed
ordering of materials and supplies. Beyond these changes and advancements, simply
upgrading the equipment that is on site will greatly improve eficiency. Upgrading the
infrastructure to allow for greater data transfer speeds between employee computers and
local storage, means it takes less time to open and save documents saved on the local NAS,
increased backup speeds, less time waiting for calculations to occur and applications to
load. All of these time savings accumulate into increased eficiency and performance. Adding
new cloud based solution into the new IT infrastructure will allow for future growth in
business compute needs, as well as allowing for a tertiary data backup beyond the local and
main data storage locations at the corporate headquarters. This is another example of how
upgrading the infrastructure will allow for the business to become more productive by
taking advantage of additional tools like cloud computing. "Cloud computing information
centers give high extensibility, achievement, and approach to effective limitless computing
capacity to application suppliers" tiNazir et al. 2021, p. 3537)
Recommendations
The recommendation with the most significant impact will be migrating from
100baseTtilEEE 802.3u) to 1000baseT ti IEEE 802.3ab) and properly segmenting the
network. Based on the current state and structure of the network at each location the most
significant data bottleneck. Along with the data throughput there is also significant added
security risks to each network due to how they are structured and unsegmented.
The biggest advantages in migrating to a newer ethernet protocol and associated speed, will
be the improved data throughput. "However, the interconnection of dissimilar LANs and
devices over a high-speed backbone network can create congestion at a destination LAN
tioutput) gateway when more than one device or LAN attempt is made to communicate
simultaneously with the same device or LAN. We address the issue of congestion avoidance
in LANs interconnected by a high-speed backbone" tiHassanein 1997, p. 261). Through
migration to the 1000baseT standard and moving from a 100mbps to a 1000mbps
backbone, the ten fold increase in speed will prevent and or mitigate the majority of the
congestion. In combination with a network restructure to isolate like devices to their own
LAN, this will further prevent the congestion mentioned by Hassanein.
The most significant disadvantage to adopting this standard will be the cost and time
involved with such an upgrade. If building a new network there would not be a significant
difference in cost as most all newer devices have already adopted 1000baseT standard for
network connectivity. When considering International Plastics Inc. it may prove necessary to
not only upgrade and replace all switches, and routers, it may also be necessary to replace
some or all of the workstation computers if they do not have 1000baseT network cards or
purchase cards for each device. Additionally, even though CAT5 cabling is capable of
delivering 1000mbps speeds, depending on the length of the runs and cable degradation
since installation it may be necessary to replace significant amount of the cabling to avoid
loss in connectivity and speed. Finally attributing to the cost will be the need for additional
switches, patch panels, routers and cabling in order to facilitate the segmentation of the
new network infrastructure proposed.
Despite the disadvantage of cost, upgrading the LAN backbone at each site would provide
the most direct and significant impact for business performance. Each location has between
25 and 50 employees utilizing computers and around 25 VOIP phones. Provided an
estimated required bandwidth of 5Mbps per VOIP phone the 100Mbps connection could be
completely saturated if all 25 phones where in use. Although this is unlikely, in combination
with bandwidth needs of the computers and other devices a 100mbps connection is simply
not enough. Through this upgrade, it is expected that employees will have better call quality
leading to less repetition as well as faster access to LAN services such and exchange, and
NAS. All of these small improvements result in significant increases in eficiency and
productivity.
The Albany location has a singular T2 connection to the WAN which provides its connectivity
to the corporate headquarters building. Inside the location there are 20 computers and a
printer wired into a 48 ports patch panel and then a 48 port switch, there is a 24 port switch
which provides connectivity to the manufacturing floor all cabling at this site is CATS. There
is a NAS, and local ERP server at this location to provide local data backup which is protected
by a UPS in case of power failure. There is a fiber connection between the local ERP server
and the NAS to facilitate faster data access. Finally there is firewall monitoring the T2 WAN
connection to provide some additional security to the local network. The Pontiac location is
very similarly built to the Albany location with the exception that it is a larger network. The
Pontiac location has 45 computers running the same Windows 7 and Ofice 2007 along with
4 printers.
Running a business in an ever forward moving technological world ensuring that a business
is is keeping up with technology has become critical to maintaining and improving business
performance. "The advancement of technology and the changing global business
environment have compelled the transformation of a warehouse" tiKumar et al., 2021, p.
3470). Utilizing enhances tools for tracking warehouse inventory, production and progress,
will move the business towards increased performance and eficiency as data transparency
increases. This increased insight into production and stocks will lead to increased
manufacturing eficiency while also reducing waste and cost through more informed
ordering of materials and supplies. Beyond these changes and advancements, simply
upgrading the equipment that is on site will greatly improve eficiency. Upgrading the
infrastructure to allow for greater data transfer speeds between employee computers and
local storage, means it takes less time to open and save documents saved on the local NAS,
increased backup speeds, less time waiting for calculations to occur and applications to
load. All of these time savings accumulate into increased eficiency and performance. Adding
new cloud based solution into the new IT infrastructure will allow for future growth in
business compute needs, as well as allowing for a tertiary data backup beyond the local and
main data storage locations at the corporate headquarters. This is another example of how
upgrading the infrastructure will allow for the business to become more productive by
taking advantage of additional tools like cloud computing. "Cloud computing information
centers give high extensibility, achievement, and approach to effective limitless computing
capacity to application suppliers" tiNazir et al. 2021, p. 3537)
Recommendations
The recommendation with the most significant impact will be migrating from
100baseTtilEEE 802.3u) to 1000baseT ti IEEE 802.3ab) and properly segmenting the
network. Based on the current state and structure of the network at each location the most
significant data bottleneck. Along with the data throughput there is also significant added
security risks to each network due to how they are structured and unsegmented.
The biggest advantages in migrating to a newer ethernet protocol and associated speed, will
be the improved data throughput. "However, the interconnection of dissimilar LANs and
devices over a high-speed backbone network can create congestion at a destination LAN
tioutput) gateway when more than one device or LAN attempt is made to communicate
simultaneously with the same device or LAN. We address the issue of congestion avoidance
in LANs interconnected by a high-speed backbone" tiHassanein 1997, p. 261). Through
migration to the 1000baseT standard and moving from a 100mbps to a 1000mbps
backbone, the ten fold increase in speed will prevent and or mitigate the majority of the
congestion. In combination with a network restructure to isolate like devices to their own
LAN, this will further prevent the congestion mentioned by Hassanein.
The most significant disadvantage to adopting this standard will be the cost and time
involved with such an upgrade. If building a new network there would not be a significant
difference in cost as most all newer devices have already adopted 1000baseT standard for
network connectivity. When considering International Plastics Inc. it may prove necessary to
not only upgrade and replace all switches, and routers, it may also be necessary to replace
some or all of the workstation computers if they do not have 1000baseT network cards or
purchase cards for each device. Additionally, even though CAT5 cabling is capable of
delivering 1000mbps speeds, depending on the length of the runs and cable degradation
since installation it may be necessary to replace significant amount of the cabling to avoid
loss in connectivity and speed. Finally attributing to the cost will be the need for additional
switches, patch panels, routers and cabling in order to facilitate the segmentation of the
new network infrastructure proposed.
Despite the disadvantage of cost, upgrading the LAN backbone at each site would provide
the most direct and significant impact for business performance. Each location has between
25 and 50 employees utilizing computers and around 25 VOIP phones. Provided an
estimated required bandwidth of 5Mbps per VOIP phone the 100Mbps connection could be
completely saturated if all 25 phones where in use. Although this is unlikely, in combination
with bandwidth needs of the computers and other devices a 100mbps connection is simply
not enough. Through this upgrade, it is expected that employees will have better call quality
leading to less repetition as well as faster access to LAN services such and exchange, and
NAS. All of these small improvements result in significant increases in eficiency and
productivity.
The Albany location has a singular T2 connection to the WAN which provides its connectivity
to the corporate headquarters building. Inside the location there are 20 computers and a
printer wired into a 48 ports patch panel and then a 48 port switch, there is a 24 port switch
which provides connectivity to the manufacturing floor all cabling at this site is CATS. There
is a NAS, and local ERP server at this location to provide local data backup which is protected
by a UPS in case of power failure. There is a fiber connection between the local ERP server
and the NAS to facilitate faster data access. Finally there is firewall monitoring the T2 WAN
connection to provide some additional security to the local network. The Pontiac location is
very similarly built to the Albany location with the exception that it is a larger network. The
Pontiac location has 45 computers running the same Windows 7 and Ofice 2007 along with
4 printers.
Running a business in an ever forward moving technological world ensuring that a business
is is keeping up with technology has become critical to maintaining and improving business
performance. "The advancement of technology and the changing global business
environment have compelled the transformation of a warehouse" tiKumar et al., 2021, p.
3470). Utilizing enhances tools for tracking warehouse inventory, production and progress,
will move the business towards increased performance and eficiency as data transparency
increases. This increased insight into production and stocks will lead to increased
manufacturing eficiency while also reducing waste and cost through more informed
ordering of materials and supplies. Beyond these changes and advancements, simply
upgrading the equipment that is on site will greatly improve eficiency. Upgrading the
infrastructure to allow for greater data transfer speeds between employee computers and
local storage, means it takes less time to open and save documents saved on the local NAS,
increased backup speeds, less time waiting for calculations to occur and applications to
load. All of these time savings accumulate into increased eficiency and performance. Adding
new cloud based solution into the new IT infrastructure will allow for future growth in
business compute needs, as well as allowing for a tertiary data backup beyond the local and
main data storage locations at the corporate headquarters. This is another example of how
upgrading the infrastructure will allow for the business to become more productive by
taking advantage of additional tools like cloud computing. "Cloud computing information
centers give high extensibility, achievement, and approach to effective limitless computing
capacity to application suppliers" tiNazir et al. 2021, p. 3537)
Recommendations
The recommendation with the most significant impact will be migrating from
100baseTtilEEE 802.3u) to 1000baseT ti IEEE 802.3ab) and properly segmenting the
network. Based on the current state and structure of the network at each location the most
significant data bottleneck. Along with the data throughput there is also significant added
security risks to each network due to how they are structured and unsegmented.
The biggest advantages in migrating to a newer ethernet protocol and associated speed, will
be the improved data throughput. "However, the interconnection of dissimilar LANs and
devices over a high-speed backbone network can create congestion at a destination LAN
tioutput) gateway when more than one device or LAN attempt is made to communicate
simultaneously with the same device or LAN. We address the issue of congestion avoidance
in LANs interconnected by a high-speed backbone" tiHassanein 1997, p. 261). Through
migration to the 1000baseT standard and moving from a 100mbps to a 1000mbps
backbone, the ten fold increase in speed will prevent and or mitigate the majority of the
congestion. In combination with a network restructure to isolate like devices to their own
LAN, this will further prevent the congestion mentioned by Hassanein.
The most significant disadvantage to adopting this standard will be the cost and time
involved with such an upgrade. If building a new network there would not be a significant
difference in cost as most all newer devices have already adopted 1000baseT standard for
network connectivity. When considering International Plastics Inc. it may prove necessary to
not only upgrade and replace all switches, and routers, it may also be necessary to replace
some or all of the workstation computers if they do not have 1000baseT network cards or
purchase cards for each device. Additionally, even though CAT5 cabling is capable of
delivering 1000mbps speeds, depending on the length of the runs and cable degradation
since installation it may be necessary to replace significant amount of the cabling to avoid
loss in connectivity and speed. Finally attributing to the cost will be the need for additional
switches, patch panels, routers and cabling in order to facilitate the segmentation of the
new network infrastructure proposed.
Despite the disadvantage of cost, upgrading the LAN backbone at each site would provide
the most direct and significant impact for business performance. Each location has between
25 and 50 employees utilizing computers and around 25 VOIP phones. Provided an
estimated required bandwidth of 5Mbps per VOIP phone the 100Mbps connection could be
completely saturated if all 25 phones where in use. Although this is unlikely, in combination
with bandwidth needs of the computers and other devices a 100mbps connection is simply
not enough. Through this upgrade, it is expected that employees will have better call quality
leading to less repetition as well as faster access to LAN services such and exchange, and
NAS. All of these small improvements result in significant increases in eficiency and
productivity.
The Albany location has a singular T2 connection to the WAN which provides its connectivity
to the corporate headquarters building. Inside the location there are 20 computers and a
printer wired into a 48 ports patch panel and then a 48 port switch, there is a 24 port switch
which provides connectivity to the manufacturing floor all cabling at this site is CATS. There
is a NAS, and local ERP server at this location to provide local data backup which is protected
by a UPS in case of power failure. There is a fiber connection between the local ERP server
and the NAS to facilitate faster data access. Finally there is firewall monitoring the T2 WAN
connection to provide some additional security to the local network. The Pontiac location is
very similarly built to the Albany location with the exception that it is a larger network. The
Pontiac location has 45 computers running the same Windows 7 and Ofice 2007 along with
4 printers.
Running a business in an ever forward moving technological world ensuring that a business
is is keeping up with technology has become critical to maintaining and improving business
performance. "The advancement of technology and the changing global business
environment have compelled the transformation of a warehouse" tiKumar et al., 2021, p.
3470). Utilizing enhances tools for tracking warehouse inventory, production and progress,
will move the business towards increased performance and eficiency as data transparency
increases. This increased insight into production and stocks will lead to increased
manufacturing eficiency while also reducing waste and cost through more informed
ordering of materials and supplies. Beyond these changes and advancements, simply
upgrading the equipment that is on site will greatly improve eficiency. Upgrading the
infrastructure to allow for greater data transfer speeds between employee computers and
local storage, means it takes less time to open and save documents saved on the local NAS,
increased backup speeds, less time waiting for calculations to occur and applications to
load. All of these time savings accumulate into increased eficiency and performance. Adding
new cloud based solution into the new IT infrastructure will allow for future growth in
business compute needs, as well as allowing for a tertiary data backup beyond the local and
main data storage locations at the corporate headquarters. This is another example of how
upgrading the infrastructure will allow for the business to become more productive by
taking advantage of additional tools like cloud computing. "Cloud computing information
centers give high extensibility, achievement, and approach to effective limitless computing
capacity to application suppliers" tiNazir et al. 2021, p. 3537)
Recommendations
The recommendation with the most significant impact will be migrating from
100baseTtilEEE 802.3u) to 1000baseT ti IEEE 802.3ab) and properly segmenting the
network. Based on the current state and structure of the network at each location the most
significant data bottleneck. Along with the data throughput there is also significant added
security risks to each network due to how they are structured and unsegmented.
The biggest advantages in migrating to a newer ethernet protocol and associated speed, will
be the improved data throughput. "However, the interconnection of dissimilar LANs and
devices over a high-speed backbone network can create congestion at a destination LAN
tioutput) gateway when more than one device or LAN attempt is made to communicate
simultaneously with the same device or LAN. We address the issue of congestion avoidance
in LANs interconnected by a high-speed backbone" tiHassanein 1997, p. 261). Through
migration to the 1000baseT standard and moving from a 100mbps to a 1000mbps
backbone, the ten fold increase in speed will prevent and or mitigate the majority of the
congestion. In combination with a network restructure to isolate like devices to their own
LAN, this will further prevent the congestion mentioned by Hassanein.
The most significant disadvantage to adopting this standard will be the cost and time
involved with such an upgrade. If building a new network there would not be a significant
difference in cost as most all newer devices have already adopted 1000baseT standard for
network connectivity. When considering International Plastics Inc. it may prove necessary to
not only upgrade and replace all switches, and routers, it may also be necessary to replace
some or all of the workstation computers if they do not have 1000baseT network cards or
purchase cards for each device. Additionally, even though CAT5 cabling is capable of
delivering 1000mbps speeds, depending on the length of the runs and cable degradation
since installation it may be necessary to replace significant amount of the cabling to avoid
loss in connectivity and speed. Finally attributing to the cost will be the need for additional
switches, patch panels, routers and cabling in order to facilitate the segmentation of the
new network infrastructure proposed.
Despite the disadvantage of cost, upgrading the LAN backbone at each site would provide
the most direct and significant impact for business performance. Each location has between
25 and 50 employees utilizing computers and around 25 VOIP phones. Provided an
estimated required bandwidth of 5Mbps per VOIP phone the 100Mbps connection could be
completely saturated if all 25 phones where in use. Although this is unlikely, in combination
with bandwidth needs of the computers and other devices a 100mbps connection is simply
not enough. Through this upgrade, it is expected that employees will have better call quality
leading to less repetition as well as faster access to LAN services such and exchange, and
NAS. All of these small improvements result in significant increases in eficiency and
productivity.
The Albany location has a singular T2 connection to the WAN which provides its connectivity
to the corporate headquarters building. Inside the location there are 20 computers and a
printer wired into a 48 ports patch panel and then a 48 port switch, there is a 24 port switch
which provides connectivity to the manufacturing floor all cabling at this site is CATS. There
is a NAS, and local ERP server at this location to provide local data backup which is protected
by a UPS in case of power failure. There is a fiber connection between the local ERP server
and the NAS to facilitate faster data access. Finally there is firewall monitoring the T2 WAN
connection to provide some additional security to the local network. The Pontiac location is
very similarly built to the Albany location with the exception that it is a larger network. The
Pontiac location has 45 computers running the same Windows 7 and Ofice 2007 along with
4 printers.
Running a business in an ever forward moving technological world ensuring that a business
is is keeping up with technology has become critical to maintaining and improving business
performance. "The advancement of technology and the changing global business
environment have compelled the transformation of a warehouse" tiKumar et al., 2021, p.
3470). Utilizing enhances tools for tracking warehouse inventory, production and progress,
will move the business towards increased performance and eficiency as data transparency
increases. This increased insight into production and stocks will lead to increased
manufacturing eficiency while also reducing waste and cost through more informed
ordering of materials and supplies. Beyond these changes and advancements, simply
upgrading the equipment that is on site will greatly improve eficiency. Upgrading the
infrastructure to allow for greater data transfer speeds between employee computers and
local storage, means it takes less time to open and save documents saved on the local NAS,
increased backup speeds, less time waiting for calculations to occur and applications to
load. All of these time savings accumulate into increased eficiency and performance. Adding
new cloud based solution into the new IT infrastructure will allow for future growth in
business compute needs, as well as allowing for a tertiary data backup beyond the local and
main data storage locations at the corporate headquarters. This is another example of how
upgrading the infrastructure will allow for the business to become more productive by
taking advantage of additional tools like cloud computing. "Cloud computing information
centers give high extensibility, achievement, and approach to effective limitless computing
capacity to application suppliers" tiNazir et al. 2021, p. 3537)
Recommendations
The recommendation with the most significant impact will be migrating from
100baseTtilEEE 802.3u) to 1000baseT ti IEEE 802.3ab) and properly segmenting the
network. Based on the current state and structure of the network at each location the most
significant data bottleneck. Along with the data throughput there is also significant added
security risks to each network due to how they are structured and unsegmented.
The biggest advantages in migrating to a newer ethernet protocol and associated speed, will
be the improved data throughput. "However, the interconnection of dissimilar LANs and
devices over a high-speed backbone network can create congestion at a destination LAN
tioutput) gateway when more than one device or LAN attempt is made to communicate
simultaneously with the same device or LAN. We address the issue of congestion avoidance
in LANs interconnected by a high-speed backbone" tiHassanein 1997, p. 261). Through
migration to the 1000baseT standard and moving from a 100mbps to a 1000mbps
backbone, the ten fold increase in speed will prevent and or mitigate the majority of the
congestion. In combination with a network restructure to isolate like devices to their own
LAN, this will further prevent the congestion mentioned by Hassanein.
The most significant disadvantage to adopting this standard will be the cost and time
involved with such an upgrade. If building a new network there would not be a significant
difference in cost as most all newer devices have already adopted 1000baseT standard for
network connectivity. When considering International Plastics Inc. it may prove necessary to
not only upgrade and replace all switches, and routers, it may also be necessary to replace
some or all of the workstation computers if they do not have 1000baseT network cards or
purchase cards for each device. Additionally, even though CAT5 cabling is capable of
delivering 1000mbps speeds, depending on the length of the runs and cable degradation
since installation it may be necessary to replace significant amount of the cabling to avoid
loss in connectivity and speed. Finally attributing to the cost will be the need for additional
switches, patch panels, routers and cabling in order to facilitate the segmentation of the
new network infrastructure proposed.
Despite the disadvantage of cost, upgrading the LAN backbone at each site would provide
the most direct and significant impact for business performance. Each location has between
25 and 50 employees utilizing computers and around 25 VOIP phones. Provided an
estimated required bandwidth of 5Mbps per VOIP phone the 100Mbps connection could be
completely saturated if all 25 phones where in use. Although this is unlikely, in combination
with bandwidth needs of the computers and other devices a 100mbps connection is simply
not enough. Through this upgrade, it is expected that employees will have better call quality
leading to less repetition as well as faster access to LAN services such and exchange, and
NAS. All of these small improvements result in significant increases in eficiency and
productivity.
The Albany location has a singular T2 connection to the WAN which provides its connectivity
to the corporate headquarters building. Inside the location there are 20 computers and a
printer wired into a 48 ports patch panel and then a 48 port switch, there is a 24 port switch
which provides connectivity to the manufacturing floor all cabling at this site is CATS. There
is a NAS, and local ERP server at this location to provide local data backup which is protected
by a UPS in case of power failure. There is a fiber connection between the local ERP server
and the NAS to facilitate faster data access. Finally there is firewall monitoring the T2 WAN
connection to provide some additional security to the local network. The Pontiac location is
very similarly built to the Albany location with the exception that it is a larger network. The
Pontiac location has 45 computers running the same Windows 7 and Ofice 2007 along with
4 printers.
Running a business in an ever forward moving technological world ensuring that a business
is is keeping up with technology has become critical to maintaining and improving business
performance. "The advancement of technology and the changing global business
environment have compelled the transformation of a warehouse" tiKumar et al., 2021, p.
3470). Utilizing enhances tools for tracking warehouse inventory, production and progress,
will move the business towards increased performance and eficiency as data transparency
increases. This increased insight into production and stocks will lead to increased
manufacturing eficiency while also reducing waste and cost through more informed
ordering of materials and supplies. Beyond these changes and advancements, simply
upgrading the equipment that is on site will greatly improve eficiency. Upgrading the
infrastructure to allow for greater data transfer speeds between employee computers and
local storage, means it takes less time to open and save documents saved on the local NAS,
increased backup speeds, less time waiting for calculations to occur and applications to
load. All of these time savings accumulate into increased eficiency and performance. Adding
new cloud based solution into the new IT infrastructure will allow for future growth in
business compute needs, as well as allowing for a tertiary data backup beyond the local and
main data storage locations at the corporate headquarters. This is another example of how
upgrading the infrastructure will allow for the business to become more productive by
taking advantage of additional tools like cloud computing. "Cloud computing information
centers give high extensibility, achievement, and approach to effective limitless computing
capacity to application suppliers" tiNazir et al. 2021, p. 3537)
Recommendations
The recommendation with the most significant impact will be migrating from
100baseTtilEEE 802.3u) to 1000baseT ti IEEE 802.3ab) and properly segmenting the
network. Based on the current state and structure of the network at each location the most
significant data bottleneck. Along with the data throughput there is also significant added
security risks to each network due to how they are structured and unsegmented.
The biggest advantages in migrating to a newer ethernet protocol and associated speed, will
be the improved data throughput. "However, the interconnection of dissimilar LANs and
devices over a high-speed backbone network can create congestion at a destination LAN
tioutput) gateway when more than one device or LAN attempt is made to communicate
simultaneously with the same device or LAN. We address the issue of congestion avoidance
in LANs interconnected by a high-speed backbone" tiHassanein 1997, p. 261). Through
migration to the 1000baseT standard and moving from a 100mbps to a 1000mbps
backbone, the ten fold increase in speed will prevent and or mitigate the majority of the
congestion. In combination with a network restructure to isolate like devices to their own
LAN, this will further prevent the congestion mentioned by Hassanein.
The most significant disadvantage to adopting this standard will be the cost and time
involved with such an upgrade. If building a new network there would not be a significant
difference in cost as most all newer devices have already adopted 1000baseT standard for
network connectivity. When considering International Plastics Inc. it may prove necessary to
not only upgrade and replace all switches, and routers, it may also be necessary to replace
some or all of the workstation computers if they do not have 1000baseT network cards or
purchase cards for each device. Additionally, even though CAT5 cabling is capable of
delivering 1000mbps speeds, depending on the length of the runs and cable degradation
since installation it may be necessary to replace significant amount of the cabling to avoid
loss in connectivity and speed. Finally attributing to the cost will be the need for additional
switches, patch panels, routers and cabling in order to facilitate the segmentation of the
new network infrastructure proposed.
Despite the disadvantage of cost, upgrading the LAN backbone at each site would provide
the most direct and significant impact for business performance. Each location has between
25 and 50 employees utilizing computers and around 25 VOIP phones. Provided an
estimated required bandwidth of 5Mbps per VOIP phone the 100Mbps connection could be
completely saturated if all 25 phones where in use. Although this is unlikely, in combination
with bandwidth needs of the computers and other devices a 100mbps connection is simply
not enough. Through this upgrade, it is expected that employees will have better call quality
leading to less repetition as well as faster access to LAN services such and exchange, and
NAS. All of these small improvements result in significant increases in eficiency and
productivity.
The Albany location has a singular T2 connection to the WAN which provides its connectivity
to the corporate headquarters building. Inside the location there are 20 computers and a
printer wired into a 48 ports patch panel and then a 48 port switch, there is a 24 port switch
which provides connectivity to the manufacturing floor all cabling at this site is CATS. There
is a NAS, and local ERP server at this location to provide local data backup which is protected
by a UPS in case of power failure. There is a fiber connection between the local ERP server
and the NAS to facilitate faster data access. Finally there is firewall monitoring the T2 WAN
connection to provide some additional security to the local network. The Pontiac location is
very similarly built to the Albany location with the exception that it is a larger network. The
Pontiac location has 45 computers running the same Windows 7 and Ofice 2007 along with
4 printers.
Running a business in an ever forward moving technological world ensuring that a business
is is keeping up with technology has become critical to maintaining and improving business
performance. "The advancement of technology and the changing global business
environment have compelled the transformation of a warehouse" tiKumar et al., 2021, p.
3470). Utilizing enhances tools for tracking warehouse inventory, production and progress,
will move the business towards increased performance and eficiency as data transparency
increases. This increased insight into production and stocks will lead to increased
manufacturing eficiency while also reducing waste and cost through more informed
ordering of materials and supplies. Beyond these changes and advancements, simply
upgrading the equipment that is on site will greatly improve eficiency. Upgrading the
infrastructure to allow for greater data transfer speeds between employee computers and
local storage, means it takes less time to open and save documents saved on the local NAS,
increased backup speeds, less time waiting for calculations to occur and applications to
load. All of these time savings accumulate into increased eficiency and performance. Adding
new cloud based solution into the new IT infrastructure will allow for future growth in
business compute needs, as well as allowing for a tertiary data backup beyond the local and
main data storage locations at the corporate headquarters. This is another example of how
upgrading the infrastructure will allow for the business to become more productive by
taking advantage of additional tools like cloud computing. "Cloud computing information
centers give high extensibility, achievement, and approach to effective limitless computing
capacity to application suppliers" tiNazir et al. 2021, p. 3537)
Recommendations
The recommendation with the most significant impact will be migrating from
100baseTtilEEE 802.3u) to 1000baseT ti IEEE 802.3ab) and properly segmenting the
network. Based on the current state and structure of the network at each location the most
significant data bottleneck. Along with the data throughput there is also significant added
security risks to each network due to how they are structured and unsegmented.
The biggest advantages in migrating to a newer ethernet protocol and associated speed, will
be the improved data throughput. "However, the interconnection of dissimilar LANs and
devices over a high-speed backbone network can create congestion at a destination LAN
tioutput) gateway when more than one device or LAN attempt is made to communicate
simultaneously with the same device or LAN. We address the issue of congestion avoidance
in LANs interconnected by a high-speed backbone" tiHassanein 1997, p. 261). Through
migration to the 1000baseT standard and moving from a 100mbps to a 1000mbps
backbone, the ten fold increase in speed will prevent and or mitigate the majority of the
congestion. In combination with a network restructure to isolate like devices to their own
LAN, this will further prevent the congestion mentioned by Hassanein.
The most significant disadvantage to adopting this standard will be the cost and time
involved with such an upgrade. If building a new network there would not be a significant
difference in cost as most all newer devices have already adopted 1000baseT standard for
network connectivity. When considering International Plastics Inc. it may prove necessary to
not only upgrade and replace all switches, and routers, it may also be necessary to replace
some or all of the workstation computers if they do not have 1000baseT network cards or
purchase cards for each device. Additionally, even though CAT5 cabling is capable of
delivering 1000mbps speeds, depending on the length of the runs and cable degradation
since installation it may be necessary to replace significant amount of the cabling to avoid
loss in connectivity and speed. Finally attributing to the cost will be the need for additional
switches, patch panels, routers and cabling in order to facilitate the segmentation of the
new network infrastructure proposed.
Despite the disadvantage of cost, upgrading the LAN backbone at each site would provide
the most direct and significant impact for business performance. Each location has between
25 and 50 employees utilizing computers and around 25 VOIP phones. Provided an
estimated required bandwidth of 5Mbps per VOIP phone the 100Mbps connection could be
completely saturated if all 25 phones where in use. Although this is unlikely, in combination
with bandwidth needs of the computers and other devices a 100mbps connection is simply
not enough. Through this upgrade, it is expected that employees will have better call quality
leading to less repetition as well as faster access to LAN services such and exchange, and
NAS. All of these small improvements result in significant increases in eficiency and
productivity.
The Albany location has a singular T2 connection to the WAN which provides its connectivity
to the corporate headquarters building. Inside the location there are 20 computers and a
printer wired into a 48 ports patch panel and then a 48 port switch, there is a 24 port switch
which provides connectivity to the manufacturing floor all cabling at this site is CATS. There
is a NAS, and local ERP server at this location to provide local data backup which is protected
by a UPS in case of power failure. There is a fiber connection between the local ERP server
and the NAS to facilitate faster data access. Finally there is firewall monitoring the T2 WAN
connection to provide some additional security to the local network. The Pontiac location is
very similarly built to the Albany location with the exception that it is a larger network. The
Pontiac location has 45 computers running the same Windows 7 and Ofice 2007 along with
4 printers.
Running a business in an ever forward moving technological world ensuring that a business
is is keeping up with technology has become critical to maintaining and improving business
performance. "The advancement of technology and the changing global business
environment have compelled the transformation of a warehouse" tiKumar et al., 2021, p.
3470). Utilizing enhances tools for tracking warehouse inventory, production and progress,
will move the business towards increased performance and eficiency as data transparency
increases. This increased insight into production and stocks will lead to increased
manufacturing eficiency while also reducing waste and cost through more informed
ordering of materials and supplies. Beyond these changes and advancements, simply
upgrading the equipment that is on site will greatly improve eficiency. Upgrading the
infrastructure to allow for greater data transfer speeds between employee computers and
local storage, means it takes less time to open and save documents saved on the local NAS,
increased backup speeds, less time waiting for calculations to occur and applications to
load. All of these time savings accumulate into increased eficiency and performance. Adding
new cloud based solution into the new IT infrastructure will allow for future growth in
business compute needs, as well as allowing for a tertiary data backup beyond the local and
main data storage locations at the corporate headquarters. This is another example of how
upgrading the infrastructure will allow for the business to become more productive by
taking advantage of additional tools like cloud computing. "Cloud computing information
centers give high extensibility, achievement, and approach to effective limitless computing
capacity to application suppliers" tiNazir et al. 2021, p. 3537)
Recommendations
The recommendation with the most significant impact will be migrating from
100baseTtilEEE 802.3u) to 1000baseT ti IEEE 802.3ab) and properly segmenting the
network. Based on the current state and structure of the network at each location the most
significant data bottleneck. Along with the data throughput there is also significant added
security risks to each network due to how they are structured and unsegmented.
The biggest advantages in migrating to a newer ethernet protocol and associated speed, will
be the improved data throughput. "However, the interconnection of dissimilar LANs and
devices over a high-speed backbone network can create congestion at a destination LAN
tioutput) gateway when more than one device or LAN attempt is made to communicate
simultaneously with the same device or LAN. We address the issue of congestion avoidance
in LANs interconnected by a high-speed backbone" tiHassanein 1997, p. 261). Through
migration to the 1000baseT standard and moving from a 100mbps to a 1000mbps
backbone, the ten fold increase in speed will prevent and or mitigate the majority of the
congestion. In combination with a network restructure to isolate like devices to their own
LAN, this will further prevent the congestion mentioned by Hassanein.
The most significant disadvantage to adopting this standard will be the cost and time
involved with such an upgrade. If building a new network there would not be a significant
difference in cost as most all newer devices have already adopted 1000baseT standard for
network connectivity. When considering International Plastics Inc. it may prove necessary to
not only upgrade and replace all switches, and routers, it may also be necessary to replace
some or all of the workstation computers if they do not have 1000baseT network cards or
purchase cards for each device. Additionally, even though CAT5 cabling is capable of
delivering 1000mbps speeds, depending on the length of the runs and cable degradation
since installation it may be necessary to replace significant amount of the cabling to avoid
loss in connectivity and speed. Finally attributing to the cost will be the need for additional
switches, patch panels, routers and cabling in order to facilitate the segmentation of the
new network infrastructure proposed.
Despite the disadvantage of cost, upgrading the LAN backbone at each site would provide
the most direct and significant impact for business performance. Each location has between
25 and 50 employees utilizing computers and around 25 VOIP phones. Provided an
estimated required bandwidth of 5Mbps per VOIP phone the 100Mbps connection could be
completely saturated if all 25 phones where in use. Although this is unlikely, in combination
with bandwidth needs of the computers and other devices a 100mbps connection is simply
not enough. Through this upgrade, it is expected that employees will have better call quality
leading to less repetition as well as faster access to LAN services such and exchange, and
NAS. All of these small improvements result in significant increases in eficiency and
productivity.
The Albany location has a singular T2 connection to the WAN which provides its connectivity
to the corporate headquarters building. Inside the location there are 20 computers and a
printer wired into a 48 ports patch panel and then a 48 port switch, there is a 24 port switch
which provides connectivity to the manufacturing floor all cabling at this site is CATS. There
is a NAS, and local ERP server at this location to provide local data backup which is protected
by a UPS in case of power failure. There is a fiber connection between the local ERP server
and the NAS to facilitate faster data access. Finally there is firewall monitoring the T2 WAN
connection to provide some additional security to the local network. The Pontiac location is
very similarly built to the Albany location with the exception that it is a larger network. The
Pontiac location has 45 computers running the same Windows 7 and Ofice 2007 along with
4 printers.
Running a business in an ever forward moving technological world ensuring that a business
is is keeping up with technology has become critical to maintaining and improving business
performance. "The advancement of technology and the changing global business
environment have compelled the transformation of a warehouse" tiKumar et al., 2021, p.
3470). Utilizing enhances tools for tracking warehouse inventory, production and progress,
will move the business towards increased performance and eficiency as data transparency
increases. This increased insight into production and stocks will lead to increased
manufacturing eficiency while also reducing waste and cost through more informed
ordering of materials and supplies. Beyond these changes and advancements, simply
upgrading the equipment that is on site will greatly improve eficiency. Upgrading the
infrastructure to allow for greater data transfer speeds between employee computers and
local storage, means it takes less time to open and save documents saved on the local NAS,
increased backup speeds, less time waiting for calculations to occur and applications to
load. All of these time savings accumulate into increased eficiency and performance. Adding
new cloud based solution into the new IT infrastructure will allow for future growth in
business compute needs, as well as allowing for a tertiary data backup beyond the local and
main data storage locations at the corporate headquarters. This is another example of how
upgrading the infrastructure will allow for the business to become more productive by
taking advantage of additional tools like cloud computing. "Cloud computing information
centers give high extensibility, achievement, and approach to effective limitless computing
capacity to application suppliers" tiNazir et al. 2021, p. 3537)
Recommendations
The recommendation with the most significant impact will be migrating from
100baseTtilEEE 802.3u) to 1000baseT ti IEEE 802.3ab) and properly segmenting the
network. Based on the current state and structure of the network at each location the most
significant data bottleneck. Along with the data throughput there is also significant added
security risks to each network due to how they are structured and unsegmented.
The biggest advantages in migrating to a newer ethernet protocol and associated speed, will
be the improved data throughput. "However, the interconnection of dissimilar LANs and
devices over a high-speed backbone network can create congestion at a destination LAN
tioutput) gateway when more than one device or LAN attempt is made to communicate
simultaneously with the same device or LAN. We address the issue of congestion avoidance
in LANs interconnected by a high-speed backbone" tiHassanein 1997, p. 261). Through
migration to the 1000baseT standard and moving from a 100mbps to a 1000mbps
backbone, the ten fold increase in speed will prevent and or mitigate the majority of the
congestion. In combination with a network restructure to isolate like devices to their own
LAN, this will further prevent the congestion mentioned by Hassanein.
The most significant disadvantage to adopting this standard will be the cost and time
involved with such an upgrade. If building a new network there would not be a significant
difference in cost as most all newer devices have already adopted 1000baseT standard for
network connectivity. When considering International Plastics Inc. it may prove necessary to
not only upgrade and replace all switches, and routers, it may also be necessary to replace
some or all of the workstation computers if they do not have 1000baseT network cards or
purchase cards for each device. Additionally, even though CAT5 cabling is capable of
delivering 1000mbps speeds, depending on the length of the runs and cable degradation
since installation it may be necessary to replace significant amount of the cabling to avoid
loss in connectivity and speed. Finally attributing to the cost will be the need for additional
switches, patch panels, routers and cabling in order to facilitate the segmentation of the
new network infrastructure proposed.
Despite the disadvantage of cost, upgrading the LAN backbone at each site would provide
the most direct and significant impact for business performance. Each location has between
25 and 50 employees utilizing computers and around 25 VOIP phones. Provided an
estimated required bandwidth of 5Mbps per VOIP phone the 100Mbps connection could be
completely saturated if all 25 phones where in use. Although this is unlikely, in combination
with bandwidth needs of the computers and other devices a 100mbps connection is simply
not enough. Through this upgrade, it is expected that employees will have better call quality
leading to less repetition as well as faster access to LAN services such and exchange, and
NAS. All of these small improvements result in significant increases in eficiency and
productivity.
The Albany location has a singular T2 connection to the WAN which provides its connectivity
to the corporate headquarters building. Inside the location there are 20 computers and a
printer wired into a 48 ports patch panel and then a 48 port switch, there is a 24 port switch
which provides connectivity to the manufacturing floor all cabling at this site is CATS. There
is a NAS, and local ERP server at this location to provide local data backup which is protected
by a UPS in case of power failure. There is a fiber connection between the local ERP server
and the NAS to facilitate faster data access. Finally there is firewall monitoring the T2 WAN
connection to provide some additional security to the local network. The Pontiac location is
very similarly built to the Albany location with the exception that it is a larger network. The
Pontiac location has 45 computers running the same Windows 7 and Ofice 2007 along with
4 printers.
Running a business in an ever forward moving technological world ensuring that a business
is is keeping up with technology has become critical to maintaining and improving business
performance. "The advancement of technology and the changing global business
environment have compelled the transformation of a warehouse" tiKumar et al., 2021, p.
3470). Utilizing enhances tools for tracking warehouse inventory, production and progress,
will move the business towards increased performance and eficiency as data transparency
increases. This increased insight into production and stocks will lead to increased
manufacturing eficiency while also reducing waste and cost through more informed
ordering of materials and supplies. Beyond these changes and advancements, simply
upgrading the equipment that is on site will greatly improve eficiency. Upgrading the
infrastructure to allow for greater data transfer speeds between employee computers and
local storage, means it takes less time to open and save documents saved on the local NAS,
increased backup speeds, less time waiting for calculations to occur and applications to
load. All of these time savings accumulate into increased eficiency and performance. Adding
new cloud based solution into the new IT infrastructure will allow for future growth in
business compute needs, as well as allowing for a tertiary data backup beyond the local and
main data storage locations at the corporate headquarters. This is another example of how
upgrading the infrastructure will allow for the business to become more productive by
taking advantage of additional tools like cloud computing. "Cloud computing information
centers give high extensibility, achievement, and approach to effective limitless computing
capacity to application suppliers" tiNazir et al. 2021, p. 3537)
Recommendations
The recommendation with the most significant impact will be migrating from
100baseTtilEEE 802.3u) to 1000baseT ti IEEE 802.3ab) and properly segmenting the
network. Based on the current state and structure of the network at each location the most
significant data bottleneck. Along with the data throughput there is also significant added
security risks to each network due to how they are structured and unsegmented.
The biggest advantages in migrating to a newer ethernet protocol and associated speed, will
be the improved data throughput. "However, the interconnection of dissimilar LANs and
devices over a high-speed backbone network can create congestion at a destination LAN
tioutput) gateway when more than one device or LAN attempt is made to communicate
simultaneously with the same device or LAN. We address the issue of congestion avoidance
in LANs interconnected by a high-speed backbone" tiHassanein 1997, p. 261). Through
migration to the 1000baseT standard and moving from a 100mbps to a 1000mbps
backbone, the ten fold increase in speed will prevent and or mitigate the majority of the
congestion. In combination with a network restructure to isolate like devices to their own
LAN, this will further prevent the congestion mentioned by Hassanein.
The most significant disadvantage to adopting this standard will be the cost and time
involved with such an upgrade. If building a new network there would not be a significant
difference in cost as most all newer devices have already adopted 1000baseT standard for
network connectivity. When considering International Plastics Inc. it may prove necessary to
not only upgrade and replace all switches, and routers, it may also be necessary to replace
some or all of the workstation computers if they do not have 1000baseT network cards or
purchase cards for each device. Additionally, even though CAT5 cabling is capable of
delivering 1000mbps speeds, depending on the length of the runs and cable degradation
since installation it may be necessary to replace significant amount of the cabling to avoid
loss in connectivity and speed. Finally attributing to the cost will be the need for additional
switches, patch panels, routers and cabling in order to facilitate the segmentation of the
new network infrastructure proposed.
Despite the disadvantage of cost, upgrading the LAN backbone at each site would provide
the most direct and significant impact for business performance. Each location has between
25 and 50 employees utilizing computers and around 25 VOIP phones. Provided an
estimated required bandwidth of 5Mbps per VOIP phone the 100Mbps connection could be
completely saturated if all 25 phones where in use. Although this is unlikely, in combination
with bandwidth needs of the computers and other devices a 100mbps connection is simply
not enough. Through this upgrade, it is expected that employees will have better call quality
leading to less repetition as well as faster access to LAN services such and exchange, and
NAS. All of these small improvements result in significant increases in eficiency and
productivity.
The Albany location has a singular T2 connection to the WAN which provides its connectivity
to the corporate headquarters building. Inside the location there are 20 computers and a
printer wired into a 48 ports patch panel and then a 48 port switch, there is a 24 port switch
which provides connectivity to the manufacturing floor all cabling at this site is CATS. There
is a NAS, and local ERP server at this location to provide local data backup which is protected
by a UPS in case of power failure. There is a fiber connection between the local ERP server
and the NAS to facilitate faster data access. Finally there is firewall monitoring the T2 WAN
connection to provide some additional security to the local network. The Pontiac location is
very similarly built to the Albany location with the exception that it is a larger network. The
Pontiac location has 45 computers running the same Windows 7 and Ofice 2007 along with
4 printers.
Running a business in an ever forward moving technological world ensuring that a business
is is keeping up with technology has become critical to maintaining and improving business
performance. "The advancement of technology and the changing global business
environment have compelled the transformation of a warehouse" tiKumar et al., 2021, p.
3470). Utilizing enhances tools for tracking warehouse inventory, production and progress,
will move the business towards increased performance and eficiency as data transparency
increases. This increased insight into production and stocks will lead to increased
manufacturing eficiency while also reducing waste and cost through more informed
ordering of materials and supplies. Beyond these changes and advancements, simply
upgrading the equipment that is on site will greatly improve eficiency. Upgrading the
infrastructure to allow for greater data transfer speeds between employee computers and
local storage, means it takes less time to open and save documents saved on the local NAS,
increased backup speeds, less time waiting for calculations to occur and applications to
load. All of these time savings accumulate into increased eficiency and performance. Adding
new cloud based solution into the new IT infrastructure will allow for future growth in
business compute needs, as well as allowing for a tertiary data backup beyond the local and
main data storage locations at the corporate headquarters. This is another example of how
upgrading the infrastructure will allow for the business to become more productive by
taking advantage of additional tools like cloud computing. "Cloud computing information
centers give high extensibility, achievement, and approach to effective limitless computing
capacity to application suppliers" tiNazir et al. 2021, p. 3537)
Recommendations
The recommendation with the most significant impact will be migrating from
100baseTtilEEE 802.3u) to 1000baseT ti IEEE 802.3ab) and properly segmenting the
network. Based on the current state and structure of the network at each location the most
significant data bottleneck. Along with the data throughput there is also significant added
security risks to each network due to how they are structured and unsegmented.
The biggest advantages in migrating to a newer ethernet protocol and associated speed, will
be the improved data throughput. "However, the interconnection of dissimilar LANs and
devices over a high-speed backbone network can create congestion at a destination LAN
tioutput) gateway when more than one device or LAN attempt is made to communicate
simultaneously with the same device or LAN. We address the issue of congestion avoidance
in LANs interconnected by a high-speed backbone" tiHassanein 1997, p. 261). Through
migration to the 1000baseT standard and moving from a 100mbps to a 1000mbps
backbone, the ten fold increase in speed will prevent and or mitigate the majority of the
congestion. In combination with a network restructure to isolate like devices to their own
LAN, this will further prevent the congestion mentioned by Hassanein.
The most significant disadvantage to adopting this standard will be the cost and time
involved with such an upgrade. If building a new network there would not be a significant
difference in cost as most all newer devices have already adopted 1000baseT standard for
network connectivity. When considering International Plastics Inc. it may prove necessary to
not only upgrade and replace all switches, and routers, it may also be necessary to replace
some or all of the workstation computers if they do not have 1000baseT network cards or
purchase cards for each device. Additionally, even though CAT5 cabling is capable of
delivering 1000mbps speeds, depending on the length of the runs and cable degradation
since installation it may be necessary to replace significant amount of the cabling to avoid
loss in connectivity and speed. Finally attributing to the cost will be the need for additional
switches, patch panels, routers and cabling in order to facilitate the segmentation of the
new network infrastructure proposed.
Despite the disadvantage of cost, upgrading the LAN backbone at each site would provide
the most direct and significant impact for business performance. Each location has between
25 and 50 employees utilizing computers and around 25 VOIP phones. Provided an
estimated required bandwidth of 5Mbps per VOIP phone the 100Mbps connection could be
completely saturated if all 25 phones where in use. Although this is unlikely, in combination
with bandwidth needs of the computers and other devices a 100mbps connection is simply
not enough. Through this upgrade, it is expected that employees will have better call quality
leading to less repetition as well as faster access to LAN services such and exchange, and
NAS. All of these small improvements result in significant increases in eficiency and
productivity.
The Albany location has a singular T2 connection to the WAN which provides its connectivity
to the corporate headquarters building. Inside the location there are 20 computers and a
printer wired into a 48 ports patch panel and then a 48 port switch, there is a 24 port switch
which provides connectivity to the manufacturing floor all cabling at this site is CATS. There
is a NAS, and local ERP server at this location to provide local data backup which is protected
by a UPS in case of power failure. There is a fiber connection between the local ERP server
and the NAS to facilitate faster data access. Finally there is firewall monitoring the T2 WAN
connection to provide some additional security to the local network. The Pontiac location is
very similarly built to the Albany location with the exception that it is a larger network. The
Pontiac location has 45 computers running the same Windows 7 and Ofice 2007 along with
4 printers.
Running a business in an ever forward moving technological world ensuring that a business
is is keeping up with technology has become critical to maintaining and improving business
performance. "The advancement of technology and the changing global business
environment have compelled the transformation of a warehouse" tiKumar et al., 2021, p.
3470). Utilizing enhances tools for tracking warehouse inventory, production and progress,
will move the business towards increased performance and eficiency as data transparency
increases. This increased insight into production and stocks will lead to increased
manufacturing eficiency while also reducing waste and cost through more informed
ordering of materials and supplies. Beyond these changes and advancements, simply
upgrading the equipment that is on site will greatly improve eficiency. Upgrading the
infrastructure to allow for greater data transfer speeds between employee computers and
local storage, means it takes less time to open and save documents saved on the local NAS,
increased backup speeds, less time waiting for calculations to occur and applications to
load. All of these time savings accumulate into increased eficiency and performance. Adding
new cloud based solution into the new IT infrastructure will allow for future growth in
business compute needs, as well as allowing for a tertiary data backup beyond the local and
main data storage locations at the corporate headquarters. This is another example of how
upgrading the infrastructure will allow for the business to become more productive by
taking advantage of additional tools like cloud computing. "Cloud computing information
centers give high extensibility, achievement, and approach to effective limitless computing
capacity to application suppliers" tiNazir et al. 2021, p. 3537)
Recommendations
The recommendation with the most significant impact will be migrating from
100baseTtilEEE 802.3u) to 1000baseT ti IEEE 802.3ab) and properly segmenting the
network. Based on the current state and structure of the network at each location the most
significant data bottleneck. Along with the data throughput there is also significant added
security risks to each network due to how they are structured and unsegmented.
The biggest advantages in migrating to a newer ethernet protocol and associated speed, will
be the improved data throughput. "However, the interconnection of dissimilar LANs and
devices over a high-speed backbone network can create congestion at a destination LAN
tioutput) gateway when more than one device or LAN attempt is made to communicate
simultaneously with the same device or LAN. We address the issue of congestion avoidance
in LANs interconnected by a high-speed backbone" tiHassanein 1997, p. 261). Through
migration to the 1000baseT standard and moving from a 100mbps to a 1000mbps
backbone, the ten fold increase in speed will prevent and or mitigate the majority of the
congestion. In combination with a network restructure to isolate like devices to their own
LAN, this will further prevent the congestion mentioned by Hassanein.
The most significant disadvantage to adopting this standard will be the cost and time
involved with such an upgrade. If building a new network there would not be a significant
difference in cost as most all newer devices have already adopted 1000baseT standard for
network connectivity. When considering International Plastics Inc. it may prove necessary to
not only upgrade and replace all switches, and routers, it may also be necessary to replace
some or all of the workstation computers if they do not have 1000baseT network cards or
purchase cards for each device. Additionally, even though CAT5 cabling is capable of
delivering 1000mbps speeds, depending on the length of the runs and cable degradation
since installation it may be necessary to replace significant amount of the cabling to avoid
loss in connectivity and speed. Finally attributing to the cost will be the need for additional
switches, patch panels, routers and cabling in order to facilitate the segmentation of the
new network infrastructure proposed.
Despite the disadvantage of cost, upgrading the LAN backbone at each site would provide
the most direct and significant impact for business performance. Each location has between
25 and 50 employees utilizing computers and around 25 VOIP phones. Provided an
estimated required bandwidth of 5Mbps per VOIP phone the 100Mbps connection could be
completely saturated if all 25 phones where in use. Although this is unlikely, in combination
with bandwidth needs of the computers and other devices a 100mbps connection is simply
not enough. Through this upgrade, it is expected that employees will have better call quality
leading to less repetition as well as faster access to LAN services such and exchange, and
NAS. All of these small improvements result in significant increases in eficiency and
productivity.
The Albany location has a singular T2 connection to the WAN which provides its connectivity
to the corporate headquarters building. Inside the location there are 20 computers and a
printer wired into a 48 ports patch panel and then a 48 port switch, there is a 24 port switch
which provides connectivity to the manufacturing floor all cabling at this site is CATS. There
is a NAS, and local ERP server at this location to provide local data backup which is protected
by a UPS in case of power failure. There is a fiber connection between the local ERP server
and the NAS to facilitate faster data access. Finally there is firewall monitoring the T2 WAN
connection to provide some additional security to the local network. The Pontiac location is
very similarly built to the Albany location with the exception that it is a larger network. The
Pontiac location has 45 computers running the same Windows 7 and Ofice 2007 along with
4 printers.
Running a business in an ever forward moving technological world ensuring that a business
is is keeping up with technology has become critical to maintaining and improving business
performance. "The advancement of technology and the changing global business
environment have compelled the transformation of a warehouse" tiKumar et al., 2021, p.
3470). Utilizing enhances tools for tracking warehouse inventory, production and progress,
will move the business towards increased performance and eficiency as data transparency
increases. This increased insight into production and stocks will lead to increased
manufacturing eficiency while also reducing waste and cost through more informed
ordering of materials and supplies. Beyond these changes and advancements, simply
upgrading the equipment that is on site will greatly improve eficiency. Upgrading the
infrastructure to allow for greater data transfer speeds between employee computers and
local storage, means it takes less time to open and save documents saved on the local NAS,
increased backup speeds, less time waiting for calculations to occur and applications to
load. All of these time savings accumulate into increased eficiency and performance. Adding
new cloud based solution into the new IT infrastructure will allow for future growth in
business compute needs, as well as allowing for a tertiary data backup beyond the local and
main data storage locations at the corporate headquarters. This is another example of how
upgrading the infrastructure will allow for the business to become more productive by
taking advantage of additional tools like cloud computing. "Cloud computing information
centers give high extensibility, achievement, and approach to effective limitless computing
capacity to application suppliers" tiNazir et al. 2021, p. 3537)
Recommendations
The recommendation with the most significant impact will be migrating from
100baseTtilEEE 802.3u) to 1000baseT ti IEEE 802.3ab) and properly segmenting the
network. Based on the current state and structure of the network at each location the most
significant data bottleneck. Along with the data throughput there is also significant added
security risks to each network due to how they are structured and unsegmented.
The biggest advantages in migrating to a newer ethernet protocol and associated speed, will
be the improved data throughput. "However, the interconnection of dissimilar LANs and
devices over a high-speed backbone network can create congestion at a destination LAN
tioutput) gateway when more than one device or LAN attempt is made to communicate
simultaneously with the same device or LAN. We address the issue of congestion avoidance
in LANs interconnected by a high-speed backbone" tiHassanein 1997, p. 261). Through
migration to the 1000baseT standard and moving from a 100mbps to a 1000mbps
backbone, the ten fold increase in speed will prevent and or mitigate the majority of the
congestion. In combination with a network restructure to isolate like devices to their own
LAN, this will further prevent the congestion mentioned by Hassanein.
The most significant disadvantage to adopting this standard will be the cost and time
involved with such an upgrade. If building a new network there would not be a significant
difference in cost as most all newer devices have already adopted 1000baseT standard for
network connectivity. When considering International Plastics Inc. it may prove necessary to
not only upgrade and replace all switches, and routers, it may also be necessary to replace
some or all of the workstation computers if they do not have 1000baseT network cards or
purchase cards for each device. Additionally, even though CAT5 cabling is capable of
delivering 1000mbps speeds, depending on the length of the runs and cable degradation
since installation it may be necessary to replace significant amount of the cabling to avoid
loss in connectivity and speed. Finally attributing to the cost will be the need for additional
switches, patch panels, routers and cabling in order to facilitate the segmentation of the
new network infrastructure proposed.
Despite the disadvantage of cost, upgrading the LAN backbone at each site would provide
the most direct and significant impact for business performance. Each location has between
25 and 50 employees utilizing computers and around 25 VOIP phones. Provided an
estimated required bandwidth of 5Mbps per VOIP phone the 100Mbps connection could be
completely saturated if all 25 phones where in use. Although this is unlikely, in combination
with bandwidth needs of the computers and other devices a 100mbps connection is simply
not enough. Through this upgrade, it is expected that employees will have better call quality
leading to less repetition as well as faster access to LAN services such and exchange, and
NAS. All of these small improvements result in significant increases in eficiency and
productivity.
The Albany location has a singular T2 connection to the WAN which provides its connectivity
to the corporate headquarters building. Inside the location there are 20 computers and a
printer wired into a 48 ports patch panel and then a 48 port switch, there is a 24 port switch
which provides connectivity to the manufacturing floor all cabling at this site is CATS. There
is a NAS, and local ERP server at this location to provide local data backup which is protected
by a UPS in case of power failure. There is a fiber connection between the local ERP server
and the NAS to facilitate faster data access. Finally there is firewall monitoring the T2 WAN
connection to provide some additional security to the local network. The Pontiac location is
very similarly built to the Albany location with the exception that it is a larger network. The
Pontiac location has 45 computers running the same Windows 7 and Ofice 2007 along with
4 printers.
Running a business in an ever forward moving technological world ensuring that a business
is is keeping up with technology has become critical to maintaining and improving business
performance. "The advancement of technology and the changing global business
environment have compelled the transformation of a warehouse" tiKumar et al., 2021, p.
3470). Utilizing enhances tools for tracking warehouse inventory, production and progress,
will move the business towards increased performance and eficiency as data transparency
increases. This increased insight into production and stocks will lead to increased
manufacturing eficiency while also reducing waste and cost through more informed
ordering of materials and supplies. Beyond these changes and advancements, simply
upgrading the equipment that is on site will greatly improve eficiency. Upgrading the
infrastructure to allow for greater data transfer speeds between employee computers and
local storage, means it takes less time to open and save documents saved on the local NAS,
increased backup speeds, less time waiting for calculations to occur and applications to
load. All of these time savings accumulate into increased eficiency and performance. Adding
new cloud based solution into the new IT infrastructure will allow for future growth in
business compute needs, as well as allowing for a tertiary data backup beyond the local and
main data storage locations at the corporate headquarters. This is another example of how
upgrading the infrastructure will allow for the business to become more productive by
taking advantage of additional tools like cloud computing. "Cloud computing information
centers give high extensibility, achievement, and approach to effective limitless computing
capacity to application suppliers" tiNazir et al. 2021, p. 3537)
Recommendations
The recommendation with the most significant impact will be migrating from
100baseTtilEEE 802.3u) to 1000baseT ti IEEE 802.3ab) and properly segmenting the
network. Based on the current state and structure of the network at each location the most
significant data bottleneck. Along with the data throughput there is also significant added
security risks to each network due to how they are structured and unsegmented.
The biggest advantages in migrating to a newer ethernet protocol and associated speed, will
be the improved data throughput. "However, the interconnection of dissimilar LANs and
devices over a high-speed backbone network can create congestion at a destination LAN
tioutput) gateway when more than one device or LAN attempt is made to communicate
simultaneously with the same device or LAN. We address the issue of congestion avoidance
in LANs interconnected by a high-speed backbone" tiHassanein 1997, p. 261). Through
migration to the 1000baseT standard and moving from a 100mbps to a 1000mbps
backbone, the ten fold increase in speed will prevent and or mitigate the majority of the
congestion. In combination with a network restructure to isolate like devices to their own
LAN, this will further prevent the congestion mentioned by Hassanein.
The most significant disadvantage to adopting this standard will be the cost and time
involved with such an upgrade. If building a new network there would not be a significant
difference in cost as most all newer devices have already adopted 1000baseT standard for
network connectivity. When considering International Plastics Inc. it may prove necessary to
not only upgrade and replace all switches, and routers, it may also be necessary to replace
some or all of the workstation computers if they do not have 1000baseT network cards or
purchase cards for each device. Additionally, even though CAT5 cabling is capable of
delivering 1000mbps speeds, depending on the length of the runs and cable degradation
since installation it may be necessary to replace significant amount of the cabling to avoid
loss in connectivity and speed. Finally attributing to the cost will be the need for additional
switches, patch panels, routers and cabling in order to facilitate the segmentation of the
new network infrastructure proposed.
Despite the disadvantage of cost, upgrading the LAN backbone at each site would provide
the most direct and significant impact for business performance. Each location has between
25 and 50 employees utilizing computers and around 25 VOIP phones. Provided an
estimated required bandwidth of 5Mbps per VOIP phone the 100Mbps connection could be
completely saturated if all 25 phones where in use. Although this is unlikely, in combination
with bandwidth needs of the computers and other devices a 100mbps connection is simply
not enough. Through this upgrade, it is expected that employees will have better call quality
leading to less repetition as well as faster access to LAN services such and exchange, and
NAS. All of these small improvements result in significant increases in eficiency and
productivity.
The Albany location has a singular T2 connection to the WAN which provides its connectivity
to the corporate headquarters building. Inside the location there are 20 computers and a
printer wired into a 48 ports patch panel and then a 48 port switch, there is a 24 port switch
which provides connectivity to the manufacturing floor all cabling at this site is CATS. There
is a NAS, and local ERP server at this location to provide local data backup which is protected
by a UPS in case of power failure. There is a fiber connection between the local ERP server
and the NAS to facilitate faster data access. Finally there is firewall monitoring the T2 WAN
connection to provide some additional security to the local network. The Pontiac location is
very similarly built to the Albany location with the exception that it is a larger network. The
Pontiac location has 45 computers running the same Windows 7 and Ofice 2007 along with
4 printers.
Running a business in an ever forward moving technological world ensuring that a business
is is keeping up with technology has become critical to maintaining and improving business
performance. "The advancement of technology and the changing global business
environment have compelled the transformation of a warehouse" tiKumar et al., 2021, p.
3470). Utilizing enhances tools for tracking warehouse inventory, production and progress,
will move the business towards increased performance and eficiency as data transparency
increases. This increased insight into production and stocks will lead to increased
manufacturing eficiency while also reducing waste and cost through more informed
ordering of materials and supplies. Beyond these changes and advancements, simply
upgrading the equipment that is on site will greatly improve eficiency. Upgrading the
infrastructure to allow for greater data transfer speeds between employee computers and
local storage, means it takes less time to open and save documents saved on the local NAS,
increased backup speeds, less time waiting for calculations to occur and applications to
load. All of these time savings accumulate into increased eficiency and performance. Adding
new cloud based solution into the new IT infrastructure will allow for future growth in
business compute needs, as well as allowing for a tertiary data backup beyond the local and
main data storage locations at the corporate headquarters. This is another example of how
upgrading the infrastructure will allow for the business to become more productive by
taking advantage of additional tools like cloud computing. "Cloud computing information
centers give high extensibility, achievement, and approach to effective limitless computing
capacity to application suppliers" tiNazir et al. 2021, p. 3537)
Recommendations
The recommendation with the most significant impact will be migrating from
100baseTtilEEE 802.3u) to 1000baseT ti IEEE 802.3ab) and properly segmenting the
network. Based on the current state and structure of the network at each location the most
significant data bottleneck. Along with the data throughput there is also significant added
security risks to each network due to how they are structured and unsegmented.
The biggest advantages in migrating to a newer ethernet protocol and associated speed, will
be the improved data throughput. "However, the interconnection of dissimilar LANs and
devices over a high-speed backbone network can create congestion at a destination LAN
tioutput) gateway when more than one device or LAN attempt is made to communicate
simultaneously with the same device or LAN. We address the issue of congestion avoidance
in LANs interconnected by a high-speed backbone" tiHassanein 1997, p. 261). Through
migration to the 1000baseT standard and moving from a 100mbps to a 1000mbps
backbone, the ten fold increase in speed will prevent and or mitigate the majority of the
congestion. In combination with a network restructure to isolate like devices to their own
LAN, this will further prevent the congestion mentioned by Hassanein.
The most significant disadvantage to adopting this standard will be the cost and time
involved with such an upgrade. If building a new network there would not be a significant
difference in cost as most all newer devices have already adopted 1000baseT standard for
network connectivity. When considering International Plastics Inc. it may prove necessary to
not only upgrade and replace all switches, and routers, it may also be necessary to replace
some or all of the workstation computers if they do not have 1000baseT network cards or
purchase cards for each device. Additionally, even though CAT5 cabling is capable of
delivering 1000mbps speeds, depending on the length of the runs and cable degradation
since installation it may be necessary to replace significant amount of the cabling to avoid
loss in connectivity and speed. Finally attributing to the cost will be the need for additional
switches, patch panels, routers and cabling in order to facilitate the segmentation of the
new network infrastructure proposed.
Despite the disadvantage of cost, upgrading the LAN backbone at each site would provide
the most direct and significant impact for business performance. Each location has between
25 and 50 employees utilizing computers and around 25 VOIP phones. Provided an
estimated required bandwidth of 5Mbps per VOIP phone the 100Mbps connection could be
completely saturated if all 25 phones where in use. Although this is unlikely, in combination
with bandwidth needs of the computers and other devices a 100mbps connection is simply
not enough. Through this upgrade, it is expected that employees will have better call quality
leading to less repetition as well as faster access to LAN services such and exchange, and
NAS. All of these small improvements result in significant increases in eficiency and
productivity.
The Albany location has a singular T2 connection to the WAN which provides its connectivity
to the corporate headquarters building. Inside the location there are 20 computers and a
printer wired into a 48 ports patch panel and then a 48 port switch, there is a 24 port switch
which provides connectivity to the manufacturing floor all cabling at this site is CATS. There
is a NAS, and local ERP server at this location to provide local data backup which is protected
by a UPS in case of power failure. There is a fiber connection between the local ERP server
and the NAS to facilitate faster data access. Finally there is firewall monitoring the T2 WAN
connection to provide some additional security to the local network. The Pontiac location is
very similarly built to the Albany location with the exception that it is a larger network. The
Pontiac location has 45 computers running the same Windows 7 and Ofice 2007 along with
4 printers.
Running a business in an ever forward moving technological world ensuring that a business
is is keeping up with technology has become critical to maintaining and improving business
performance. "The advancement of technology and the changing global business
environment have compelled the transformation of a warehouse" tiKumar et al., 2021, p.
3470). Utilizing enhances tools for tracking warehouse inventory, production and progress,
will move the business towards increased performance and eficiency as data transparency
increases. This increased insight into production and stocks will lead to increased
manufacturing eficiency while also reducing waste and cost through more informed
ordering of materials and supplies. Beyond these changes and advancements, simply
upgrading the equipment that is on site will greatly improve eficiency. Upgrading the
infrastructure to allow for greater data transfer speeds between employee computers and
local storage, means it takes less time to open and save documents saved on the local NAS,
increased backup speeds, less time waiting for calculations to occur and applications to
load. All of these time savings accumulate into increased eficiency and performance. Adding
new cloud based solution into the new IT infrastructure will allow for future growth in
business compute needs, as well as allowing for a tertiary data backup beyond the local and
main data storage locations at the corporate headquarters. This is another example of how
upgrading the infrastructure will allow for the business to become more productive by
taking advantage of additional tools like cloud computing. "Cloud computing information
centers give high extensibility, achievement, and approach to effective limitless computing
capacity to application suppliers" tiNazir et al. 2021, p. 3537)
Recommendations
The recommendation with the most significant impact will be migrating from
100baseTtilEEE 802.3u) to 1000baseT ti IEEE 802.3ab) and properly segmenting the
network. Based on the current state and structure of the network at each location the most
significant data bottleneck. Along with the data throughput there is also significant added
security risks to each network due to how they are structured and unsegmented.
The biggest advantages in migrating to a newer ethernet protocol and associated speed, will
be the improved data throughput. "However, the interconnection of dissimilar LANs and
devices over a high-speed backbone network can create congestion at a destination LAN
tioutput) gateway when more than one device or LAN attempt is made to communicate
simultaneously with the same device or LAN. We address the issue of congestion avoidance
in LANs interconnected by a high-speed backbone" tiHassanein 1997, p. 261). Through
migration to the 1000baseT standard and moving from a 100mbps to a 1000mbps
backbone, the ten fold increase in speed will prevent and or mitigate the majority of the
congestion. In combination with a network restructure to isolate like devices to their own
LAN, this will further prevent the congestion mentioned by Hassanein.
The most significant disadvantage to adopting this standard will be the cost and time
involved with such an upgrade. If building a new network there would not be a significant
difference in cost as most all newer devices have already adopted 1000baseT standard for
network connectivity. When considering International Plastics Inc. it may prove necessary to
not only upgrade and replace all switches, and routers, it may also be necessary to replace
some or all of the workstation computers if they do not have 1000baseT network cards or
purchase cards for each device. Additionally, even though CAT5 cabling is capable of
delivering 1000mbps speeds, depending on the length of the runs and cable degradation
since installation it may be necessary to replace significant amount of the cabling to avoid
loss in connectivity and speed. Finally attributing to the cost will be the need for additional
switches, patch panels, routers and cabling in order to facilitate the segmentation of the
new network infrastructure proposed.
Despite the disadvantage of cost, upgrading the LAN backbone at each site would provide
the most direct and significant impact for business performance. Each location has between
25 and 50 employees utilizing computers and around 25 VOIP phones. Provided an
estimated required bandwidth of 5Mbps per VOIP phone the 100Mbps connection could be
completely saturated if all 25 phones where in use. Although this is unlikely, in combination
with bandwidth needs of the computers and other devices a 100mbps connection is simply
not enough. Through this upgrade, it is expected that employees will have better call quality
leading to less repetition as well as faster access to LAN services such and exchange, and
NAS. All of these small improvements result in significant increases in eficiency and
productivity.
The Albany location has a singular T2 connection to the WAN which provides its connectivity
to the corporate headquarters building. Inside the location there are 20 computers and a
printer wired into a 48 ports patch panel and then a 48 port switch, there is a 24 port switch
which provides connectivity to the manufacturing floor all cabling at this site is CATS. There
is a NAS, and local ERP server at this location to provide local data backup which is protected
by a UPS in case of power failure. There is a fiber connection between the local ERP server
and the NAS to facilitate faster data access. Finally there is firewall monitoring the T2 WAN
connection to provide some additional security to the local network. The Pontiac location is
very similarly built to the Albany location with the exception that it is a larger network. The
Pontiac location has 45 computers running the same Windows 7 and Ofice 2007 along with
4 printers.
Running a business in an ever forward moving technological world ensuring that a business
is is keeping up with technology has become critical to maintaining and improving business
performance. "The advancement of technology and the changing global business
environment have compelled the transformation of a warehouse" tiKumar et al., 2021, p.
3470). Utilizing enhances tools for tracking warehouse inventory, production and progress,
will move the business towards increased performance and eficiency as data transparency
increases. This increased insight into production and stocks will lead to increased
manufacturing eficiency while also reducing waste and cost through more informed
ordering of materials and supplies. Beyond these changes and advancements, simply
upgrading the equipment that is on site will greatly improve eficiency. Upgrading the
infrastructure to allow for greater data transfer speeds between employee computers and
local storage, means it takes less time to open and save documents saved on the local NAS,
increased backup speeds, less time waiting for calculations to occur and applications to
load. All of these time savings accumulate into increased eficiency and performance. Adding
new cloud based solution into the new IT infrastructure will allow for future growth in
business compute needs, as well as allowing for a tertiary data backup beyond the local and
main data storage locations at the corporate headquarters. This is another example of how
upgrading the infrastructure will allow for the business to become more productive by
taking advantage of additional tools like cloud computing. "Cloud computing information
centers give high extensibility, achievement, and approach to effective limitless computing
capacity to application suppliers" tiNazir et al. 2021, p. 3537)
Recommendations
The recommendation with the most significant impact will be migrating from
100baseTtilEEE 802.3u) to 1000baseT ti IEEE 802.3ab) and properly segmenting the
network. Based on the current state and structure of the network at each location the most
significant data bottleneck. Along with the data throughput there is also significant added
security risks to each network due to how they are structured and unsegmented.
The biggest advantages in migrating to a newer ethernet protocol and associated speed, will
be the improved data throughput. "However, the interconnection of dissimilar LANs and
devices over a high-speed backbone network can create congestion at a destination LAN
tioutput) gateway when more than one device or LAN attempt is made to communicate
simultaneously with the same device or LAN. We address the issue of congestion avoidance
in LANs interconnected by a high-speed backbone" tiHassanein 1997, p. 261). Through
migration to the 1000baseT standard and moving from a 100mbps to a 1000mbps
backbone, the ten fold increase in speed will prevent and or mitigate the majority of the
congestion. In combination with a network restructure to isolate like devices to their own
LAN, this will further prevent the congestion mentioned by Hassanein.
The most significant disadvantage to adopting this standard will be the cost and time
involved with such an upgrade. If building a new network there would not be a significant
difference in cost as most all newer devices have already adopted 1000baseT standard for
network connectivity. When considering International Plastics Inc. it may prove necessary to
not only upgrade and replace all switches, and routers, it may also be necessary to replace
some or all of the workstation computers if they do not have 1000baseT network cards or
purchase cards for each device. Additionally, even though CAT5 cabling is capable of
delivering 1000mbps speeds, depending on the length of the runs and cable degradation
since installation it may be necessary to replace significant amount of the cabling to avoid
loss in connectivity and speed. Finally attributing to the cost will be the need for additional
switches, patch panels, routers and cabling in order to facilitate the segmentation of the
new network infrastructure proposed.
Despite the disadvantage of cost, upgrading the LAN backbone at each site would provide
the most direct and significant impact for business performance. Each location has between
25 and 50 employees utilizing computers and around 25 VOIP phones. Provided an
estimated required bandwidth of 5Mbps per VOIP phone the 100Mbps connection could be
completely saturated if all 25 phones where in use. Although this is unlikely, in combination
with bandwidth needs of the computers and other devices a 100mbps connection is simply
not enough. Through this upgrade, it is expected that employees will have better call quality
leading to less repetition as well as faster access to LAN services such and exchange, and
NAS. All of these small improvements result in significant increases in eficiency and
productivity.
The Albany location has a singular T2 connection to the WAN which provides its connectivity
to the corporate headquarters building. Inside the location there are 20 computers and a
printer wired into a 48 ports patch panel and then a 48 port switch, there is a 24 port switch
which provides connectivity to the manufacturing floor all cabling at this site is CATS. There
is a NAS, and local ERP server at this location to provide local data backup which is protected
by a UPS in case of power failure. There is a fiber connection between the local ERP server
and the NAS to facilitate faster data access. Finally there is firewall monitoring the T2 WAN
connection to provide some additional security to the local network. The Pontiac location is
very similarly built to the Albany location with the exception that it is a larger network. The
Pontiac location has 45 computers running the same Windows 7 and Ofice 2007 along with
4 printers.
Running a business in an ever forward moving technological world ensuring that a business
is is keeping up with technology has become critical to maintaining and improving business
performance. "The advancement of technology and the changing global business
environment have compelled the transformation of a warehouse" tiKumar et al., 2021, p.
3470). Utilizing enhances tools for tracking warehouse inventory, production and progress,
will move the business towards increased performance and eficiency as data transparency
increases. This increased insight into production and stocks will lead to increased
manufacturing eficiency while also reducing waste and cost through more informed
ordering of materials and supplies. Beyond these changes and advancements, simply
upgrading the equipment that is on site will greatly improve eficiency. Upgrading the
infrastructure to allow for greater data transfer speeds between employee computers and
local storage, means it takes less time to open and save documents saved on the local NAS,
increased backup speeds, less time waiting for calculations to occur and applications to
load. All of these time savings accumulate into increased eficiency and performance. Adding
new cloud based solution into the new IT infrastructure will allow for future growth in
business compute needs, as well as allowing for a tertiary data backup beyond the local and
main data storage locations at the corporate headquarters. This is another example of how
upgrading the infrastructure will allow for the business to become more productive by
taking advantage of additional tools like cloud computing. "Cloud computing information
centers give high extensibility, achievement, and approach to effective limitless computing
capacity to application suppliers" tiNazir et al. 2021, p. 3537)
Recommendations
The recommendation with the most significant impact will be migrating from
100baseTtilEEE 802.3u) to 1000baseT ti IEEE 802.3ab) and properly segmenting the
network. Based on the current state and structure of the network at each location the most
significant data bottleneck. Along with the data throughput there is also significant added
security risks to each network due to how they are structured and unsegmented.
The biggest advantages in migrating to a newer ethernet protocol and associated speed, will
be the improved data throughput. "However, the interconnection of dissimilar LANs and
devices over a high-speed backbone network can create congestion at a destination LAN
tioutput) gateway when more than one device or LAN attempt is made to communicate
simultaneously with the same device or LAN. We address the issue of congestion avoidance
in LANs interconnected by a high-speed backbone" tiHassanein 1997, p. 261). Through
migration to the 1000baseT standard and moving from a 100mbps to a 1000mbps
backbone, the ten fold increase in speed will prevent and or mitigate the majority of the
congestion. In combination with a network restructure to isolate like devices to their own
LAN, this will further prevent the congestion mentioned by Hassanein.
The most significant disadvantage to adopting this standard will be the cost and time
involved with such an upgrade. If building a new network there would not be a significant
difference in cost as most all newer devices have already adopted 1000baseT standard for
network connectivity. When considering International Plastics Inc. it may prove necessary to
not only upgrade and replace all switches, and routers, it may also be necessary to replace
some or all of the workstation computers if they do not have 1000baseT network cards or
purchase cards for each device. Additionally, even though CAT5 cabling is capable of
delivering 1000mbps speeds, depending on the length of the runs and cable degradation
since installation it may be necessary to replace significant amount of the cabling to avoid
loss in connectivity and speed. Finally attributing to the cost will be the need for additional
switches, patch panels, routers and cabling in order to facilitate the segmentation of the
new network infrastructure proposed.
Despite the disadvantage of cost, upgrading the LAN backbone at each site would provide
the most direct and significant impact for business performance. Each location has between
25 and 50 employees utilizing computers and around 25 VOIP phones. Provided an
estimated required bandwidth of 5Mbps per VOIP phone the 100Mbps connection could be
completely saturated if all 25 phones where in use. Although this is unlikely, in combination
with bandwidth needs of the computers and other devices a 100mbps connection is simply
not enough. Through this upgrade, it is expected that employees will have better call quality
leading to less repetition as well as faster access to LAN services such and exchange, and
NAS. All of these small improvements result in significant increases in eficiency and
productivity.
The Albany location has a singular T2 connection to the WAN which provides its connectivity
to the corporate headquarters building. Inside the location there are 20 computers and a
printer wired into a 48 ports patch panel and then a 48 port switch, there is a 24 port switch
which provides connectivity to the manufacturing floor all cabling at this site is CATS. There
is a NAS, and local ERP server at this location to provide local data backup which is protected
by a UPS in case of power failure. There is a fiber connection between the local ERP server
and the NAS to facilitate faster data access. Finally there is firewall monitoring the T2 WAN
connection to provide some additional security to the local network. The Pontiac location is
very similarly built to the Albany location with the exception that it is a larger network. The
Pontiac location has 45 computers running the same Windows 7 and Ofice 2007 along with
4 printers.
Running a business in an ever forward moving technological world ensuring that a business
is is keeping up with technology has become critical to maintaining and improving business
performance. "The advancement of technology and the changing global business
environment have compelled the transformation of a warehouse" tiKumar et al., 2021, p.
3470). Utilizing enhances tools for tracking warehouse inventory, production and progress,
will move the business towards increased performance and eficiency as data transparency
increases. This increased insight into production and stocks will lead to increased
manufacturing eficiency while also reducing waste and cost through more informed
ordering of materials and supplies. Beyond these changes and advancements, simply
upgrading the equipment that is on site will greatly improve eficiency. Upgrading the
infrastructure to allow for greater data transfer speeds between employee computers and
local storage, means it takes less time to open and save documents saved on the local NAS,
increased backup speeds, less time waiting for calculations to occur and applications to
load. All of these time savings accumulate into increased eficiency and performance. Adding
new cloud based solution into the new IT infrastructure will allow for future growth in
business compute needs, as well as allowing for a tertiary data backup beyond the local and
main data storage locations at the corporate headquarters. This is another example of how
upgrading the infrastructure will allow for the business to become more productive by
taking advantage of additional tools like cloud computing. "Cloud computing information
centers give high extensibility, achievement, and approach to effective limitless computing
capacity to application suppliers" tiNazir et al. 2021, p. 3537)
Recommendations
The recommendation with the most significant impact will be migrating from
100baseTtilEEE 802.3u) to 1000baseT ti IEEE 802.3ab) and properly segmenting the
network. Based on the current state and structure of the network at each location the most
significant data bottleneck. Along with the data throughput there is also significant added
security risks to each network due to how they are structured and unsegmented.
The biggest advantages in migrating to a newer ethernet protocol and associated speed, will
be the improved data throughput. "However, the interconnection of dissimilar LANs and
devices over a high-speed backbone network can create congestion at a destination LAN
tioutput) gateway when more than one device or LAN attempt is made to communicate
simultaneously with the same device or LAN. We address the issue of congestion avoidance
in LANs interconnected by a high-speed backbone" tiHassanein 1997, p. 261). Through
migration to the 1000baseT standard and moving from a 100mbps to a 1000mbps
backbone, the ten fold increase in speed will prevent and or mitigate the majority of the
congestion. In combination with a network restructure to isolate like devices to their own
LAN, this will further prevent the congestion mentioned by Hassanein.
The most significant disadvantage to adopting this standard will be the cost and time
involved with such an upgrade. If building a new network there would not be a significant
difference in cost as most all newer devices have already adopted 1000baseT standard for
network connectivity. When considering International Plastics Inc. it may prove necessary to
not only upgrade and replace all switches, and routers, it may also be necessary to replace
some or all of the workstation computers if they do not have 1000baseT network cards or
purchase cards for each device. Additionally, even though CAT5 cabling is capable of
delivering 1000mbps speeds, depending on the length of the runs and cable degradation
since installation it may be necessary to replace significant amount of the cabling to avoid
loss in connectivity and speed. Finally attributing to the cost will be the need for additional
switches, patch panels, routers and cabling in order to facilitate the segmentation of the
new network infrastructure proposed.
Despite the disadvantage of cost, upgrading the LAN backbone at each site would provide
the most direct and significant impact for business performance. Each location has between
25 and 50 employees utilizing computers and around 25 VOIP phones. Provided an
estimated required bandwidth of 5Mbps per VOIP phone the 100Mbps connection could be
completely saturated if all 25 phones where in use. Although this is unlikely, in combination
with bandwidth needs of the computers and other devices a 100mbps connection is simply
not enough. Through this upgrade, it is expected that employees will have better call quality
leading to less repetition as well as faster access to LAN services such and exchange, and
NAS. All of these small improvements result in significant increases in eficiency and
productivity.
The Albany location has a singular T2 connection to the WAN which provides its connectivity
to the corporate headquarters building. Inside the location there are 20 computers and a
printer wired into a 48 ports patch panel and then a 48 port switch, there is a 24 port switch
which provides connectivity to the manufacturing floor all cabling at this site is CATS. There
is a NAS, and local ERP server at this location to provide local data backup which is protected
by a UPS in case of power failure. There is a fiber connection between the local ERP server
and the NAS to facilitate faster data access. Finally there is firewall monitoring the T2 WAN
connection to provide some additional security to the local network. The Pontiac location is
very similarly built to the Albany location with the exception that it is a larger network. The
Pontiac location has 45 computers running the same Windows 7 and Ofice 2007 along with
4 printers.
Running a business in an ever forward moving technological world ensuring that a business
is is keeping up with technology has become critical to maintaining and improving business
performance. "The advancement of technology and the changing global business
environment have compelled the transformation of a warehouse" tiKumar et al., 2021, p.
3470). Utilizing enhances tools for tracking warehouse inventory, production and progress,
will move the business towards increased performance and eficiency as data transparency
increases. This increased insight into production and stocks will lead to increased
manufacturing eficiency while also reducing waste and cost through more informed
ordering of materials and supplies. Beyond these changes and advancements, simply
upgrading the equipment that is on site will greatly improve eficiency. Upgrading the
infrastructure to allow for greater data transfer speeds between employee computers and
local storage, means it takes less time to open and save documents saved on the local NAS,
increased backup speeds, less time waiting for calculations to occur and applications to
load. All of these time savings accumulate into increased eficiency and performance. Adding
new cloud based solution into the new IT infrastructure will allow for future growth in
business compute needs, as well as allowing for a tertiary data backup beyond the local and
main data storage locations at the corporate headquarters. This is another example of how
upgrading the infrastructure will allow for the business to become more productive by
taking advantage of additional tools like cloud computing. "Cloud computing information
centers give high extensibility, achievement, and approach to effective limitless computing
capacity to application suppliers" tiNazir et al. 2021, p. 3537)
Recommendations
The recommendation with the most significant impact will be migrating from
100baseTtilEEE 802.3u) to 1000baseT ti IEEE 802.3ab) and properly segmenting the
network. Based on the current state and structure of the network at each location the most
significant data bottleneck. Along with the data throughput there is also significant added
security risks to each network due to how they are structured and unsegmented.
The biggest advantages in migrating to a newer ethernet protocol and associated speed, will
be the improved data throughput. "However, the interconnection of dissimilar LANs and
devices over a high-speed backbone network can create congestion at a destination LAN
tioutput) gateway when more than one device or LAN attempt is made to communicate
simultaneously with the same device or LAN. We address the issue of congestion avoidance
in LANs interconnected by a high-speed backbone" tiHassanein 1997, p. 261). Through
migration to the 1000baseT standard and moving from a 100mbps to a 1000mbps
backbone, the ten fold increase in speed will prevent and or mitigate the majority of the
congestion. In combination with a network restructure to isolate like devices to their own
LAN, this will further prevent the congestion mentioned by Hassanein.
The most significant disadvantage to adopting this standard will be the cost and time
involved with such an upgrade. If building a new network there would not be a significant
difference in cost as most all newer devices have already adopted 1000baseT standard for
network connectivity. When considering International Plastics Inc. it may prove necessary to
not only upgrade and replace all switches, and routers, it may also be necessary to replace
some or all of the workstation computers if they do not have 1000baseT network cards or
purchase cards for each device. Additionally, even though CAT5 cabling is capable of
delivering 1000mbps speeds, depending on the length of the runs and cable degradation
since installation it may be necessary to replace significant amount of the cabling to avoid
loss in connectivity and speed. Finally attributing to the cost will be the need for additional
switches, patch panels, routers and cabling in order to facilitate the segmentation of the
new network infrastructure proposed.
Despite the disadvantage of cost, upgrading the LAN backbone at each site would provide
the most direct and significant impact for business performance. Each location has between
25 and 50 employees utilizing computers and around 25 VOIP phones. Provided an
estimated required bandwidth of 5Mbps per VOIP phone the 100Mbps connection could be
completely saturated if all 25 phones where in use. Although this is unlikely, in combination
with bandwidth needs of the computers and other devices a 100mbps connection is simply
not enough. Through this upgrade, it is expected that employees will have better call quality
leading to less repetition as well as faster access to LAN services such and exchange, and
NAS. All of these small improvements result in significant increases in eficiency and
productivity.
The Albany location has a singular T2 connection to the WAN which provides its connectivity
to the corporate headquarters building. Inside the location there are 20 computers and a
printer wired into a 48 ports patch panel and then a 48 port switch, there is a 24 port switch
which provides connectivity to the manufacturing floor all cabling at this site is CATS. There
is a NAS, and local ERP server at this location to provide local data backup which is protected
by a UPS in case of power failure. There is a fiber connection between the local ERP server
and the NAS to facilitate faster data access. Finally there is firewall monitoring the T2 WAN
connection to provide some additional security to the local network. The Pontiac location is
very similarly built to the Albany location with the exception that it is a larger network. The
Pontiac location has 45 computers running the same Windows 7 and Ofice 2007 along with
4 printers.
Running a business in an ever forward moving technological world ensuring that a business
is is keeping up with technology has become critical to maintaining and improving business
performance. "The advancement of technology and the changing global business
environment have compelled the transformation of a warehouse" tiKumar et al., 2021, p.
3470). Utilizing enhances tools for tracking warehouse inventory, production and progress,
will move the business towards increased performance and eficiency as data transparency
increases. This increased insight into production and stocks will lead to increased
manufacturing eficiency while also reducing waste and cost through more informed
ordering of materials and supplies. Beyond these changes and advancements, simply
upgrading the equipment that is on site will greatly improve eficiency. Upgrading the
infrastructure to allow for greater data transfer speeds between employee computers and
local storage, means it takes less time to open and save documents saved on the local NAS,
increased backup speeds, less time waiting for calculations to occur and applications to
load. All of these time savings accumulate into increased eficiency and performance. Adding
new cloud based solution into the new IT infrastructure will allow for future growth in
business compute needs, as well as allowing for a tertiary data backup beyond the local and
main data storage locations at the corporate headquarters. This is another example of how
upgrading the infrastructure will allow for the business to become more productive by
taking advantage of additional tools like cloud computing. "Cloud computing information
centers give high extensibility, achievement, and approach to effective limitless computing
capacity to application suppliers" tiNazir et al. 2021, p. 3537)
Recommendations
The recommendation with the most significant impact will be migrating from
100baseTtilEEE 802.3u) to 1000baseT ti IEEE 802.3ab) and properly segmenting the
network. Based on the current state and structure of the network at each location the most
significant data bottleneck. Along with the data throughput there is also significant added
security risks to each network due to how they are structured and unsegmented.
The biggest advantages in migrating to a newer ethernet protocol and associated speed, will
be the improved data throughput. "However, the interconnection of dissimilar LANs and
devices over a high-speed backbone network can create congestion at a destination LAN
tioutput) gateway when more than one device or LAN attempt is made to communicate
simultaneously with the same device or LAN. We address the issue of congestion avoidance
in LANs interconnected by a high-speed backbone" tiHassanein 1997, p. 261). Through
migration to the 1000baseT standard and moving from a 100mbps to a 1000mbps
backbone, the ten fold increase in speed will prevent and or mitigate the majority of the
congestion. In combination with a network restructure to isolate like devices to their own
LAN, this will further prevent the congestion mentioned by Hassanein.
The most significant disadvantage to adopting this standard will be the cost and time
involved with such an upgrade. If building a new network there would not be a significant
difference in cost as most all newer devices have already adopted 1000baseT standard for
network connectivity. When considering International Plastics Inc. it may prove necessary to
not only upgrade and replace all switches, and routers, it may also be necessary to replace
some or all of the workstation computers if they do not have 1000baseT network cards or
purchase cards for each device. Additionally, even though CAT5 cabling is capable of
delivering 1000mbps speeds, depending on the length of the runs and cable degradation
since installation it may be necessary to replace significant amount of the cabling to avoid
loss in connectivity and speed. Finally attributing to the cost will be the need for additional
switches, patch panels, routers and cabling in order to facilitate the segmentation of the
new network infrastructure proposed.
Despite the disadvantage of cost, upgrading the LAN backbone at each site would provide
the most direct and significant impact for business performance. Each location has between
25 and 50 employees utilizing computers and around 25 VOIP phones. Provided an
estimated required bandwidth of 5Mbps per VOIP phone the 100Mbps connection could be
completely saturated if all 25 phones where in use. Although this is unlikely, in combination
with bandwidth needs of the computers and other devices a 100mbps connection is simply
not enough. Through this upgrade, it is expected that employees will have better call quality
leading to less repetition as well as faster access to LAN services such and exchange, and
NAS. All of these small improvements result in significant increases in eficiency and
productivity.
The Albany location has a singular T2 connection to the WAN which provides its connectivity
to the corporate headquarters building. Inside the location there are 20 computers and a
printer wired into a 48 ports patch panel and then a 48 port switch, there is a 24 port switch
which provides connectivity to the manufacturing floor all cabling at this site is CATS. There
is a NAS, and local ERP server at this location to provide local data backup which is protected
by a UPS in case of power failure. There is a fiber connection between the local ERP server
and the NAS to facilitate faster data access. Finally there is firewall monitoring the T2 WAN
connection to provide some additional security to the local network. The Pontiac location is
very similarly built to the Albany location with the exception that it is a larger network. The
Pontiac location has 45 computers running the same Windows 7 and Ofice 2007 along with
4 printers.
Running a business in an ever forward moving technological world ensuring that a business
is is keeping up with technology has become critical to maintaining and improving business
performance. "The advancement of technology and the changing global business
environment have compelled the transformation of a warehouse" tiKumar et al., 2021, p.
3470). Utilizing enhances tools for tracking warehouse inventory, production and progress,
will move the business towards increased performance and eficiency as data transparency
increases. This increased insight into production and stocks will lead to increased
manufacturing eficiency while also reducing waste and cost through more informed
ordering of materials and supplies. Beyond these changes and advancements, simply
upgrading the equipment that is on site will greatly improve eficiency. Upgrading the
infrastructure to allow for greater data transfer speeds between employee computers and
local storage, means it takes less time to open and save documents saved on the local NAS,
increased backup speeds, less time waiting for calculations to occur and applications to
load. All of these time savings accumulate into increased eficiency and performance. Adding
new cloud based solution into the new IT infrastructure will allow for future growth in
business compute needs, as well as allowing for a tertiary data backup beyond the local and
main data storage locations at the corporate headquarters. This is another example of how
upgrading the infrastructure will allow for the business to become more productive by
taking advantage of additional tools like cloud computing. "Cloud computing information
centers give high extensibility, achievement, and approach to effective limitless computing
capacity to application suppliers" tiNazir et al. 2021, p. 3537)
Recommendations
The recommendation with the most significant impact will be migrating from
100baseTtilEEE 802.3u) to 1000baseT ti IEEE 802.3ab) and properly segmenting the
network. Based on the current state and structure of the network at each location the most
significant data bottleneck. Along with the data throughput there is also significant added
security risks to each network due to how they are structured and unsegmented.
The biggest advantages in migrating to a newer ethernet protocol and associated speed, will
be the improved data throughput. "However, the interconnection of dissimilar LANs and
devices over a high-speed backbone network can create congestion at a destination LAN
tioutput) gateway when more than one device or LAN attempt is made to communicate
simultaneously with the same device or LAN. We address the issue of congestion avoidance
in LANs interconnected by a high-speed backbone" tiHassanein 1997, p. 261). Through
migration to the 1000baseT standard and moving from a 100mbps to a 1000mbps
backbone, the ten fold increase in speed will prevent and or mitigate the majority of the
congestion. In combination with a network restructure to isolate like devices to their own
LAN, this will further prevent the congestion mentioned by Hassanein.
The most significant disadvantage to adopting this standard will be the cost and time
involved with such an upgrade. If building a new network there would not be a significant
difference in cost as most all newer devices have already adopted 1000baseT standard for
network connectivity. When considering International Plastics Inc. it may prove necessary to
not only upgrade and replace all switches, and routers, it may also be necessary to replace
some or all of the workstation computers if they do not have 1000baseT network cards or
purchase cards for each device. Additionally, even though CAT5 cabling is capable of
delivering 1000mbps speeds, depending on the length of the runs and cable degradation
since installation it may be necessary to replace significant amount of the cabling to avoid
loss in connectivity and speed. Finally attributing to the cost will be the need for additional
switches, patch panels, routers and cabling in order to facilitate the segmentation of the
new network infrastructure proposed.
Despite the disadvantage of cost, upgrading the LAN backbone at each site would provide
the most direct and significant impact for business performance. Each location has between
25 and 50 employees utilizing computers and around 25 VOIP phones. Provided an
estimated required bandwidth of 5Mbps per VOIP phone the 100Mbps connection could be
completely saturated if all 25 phones where in use. Although this is unlikely, in combination
with bandwidth needs of the computers and other devices a 100mbps connection is simply
not enough. Through this upgrade, it is expected that employees will have better call quality
leading to less repetition as well as faster access to LAN services such and exchange, and
NAS. All of these small improvements result in significant increases in eficiency and
productivity.
The Albany location has a singular T2 connection to the WAN which provides its connectivity
to the corporate headquarters building. Inside the location there are 20 computers and a
printer wired into a 48 ports patch panel and then a 48 port switch, there is a 24 port switch
which provides connectivity to the manufacturing floor all cabling at this site is CATS. There
is a NAS, and local ERP server at this location to provide local data backup which is protected
by a UPS in case of power failure. There is a fiber connection between the local ERP server
and the NAS to facilitate faster data access. Finally there is firewall monitoring the T2 WAN
connection to provide some additional security to the local network. The Pontiac location is
very similarly built to the Albany location with the exception that it is a larger network. The
Pontiac location has 45 computers running the same Windows 7 and Ofice 2007 along with
4 printers.
Running a business in an ever forward moving technological world ensuring that a business
is is keeping up with technology has become critical to maintaining and improving business
performance. "The advancement of technology and the changing global business
environment have compelled the transformation of a warehouse" tiKumar et al., 2021, p.
3470). Utilizing enhances tools for tracking warehouse inventory, production and progress,
will move the business towards increased performance and eficiency as data transparency
increases. This increased insight into production and stocks will lead to increased
manufacturing eficiency while also reducing waste and cost through more informed
ordering of materials and supplies. Beyond these changes and advancements, simply
upgrading the equipment that is on site will greatly improve eficiency. Upgrading the
infrastructure to allow for greater data transfer speeds between employee computers and
local storage, means it takes less time to open and save documents saved on the local NAS,
increased backup speeds, less time waiting for calculations to occur and applications to
load. All of these time savings accumulate into increased eficiency and performance. Adding
new cloud based solution into the new IT infrastructure will allow for future growth in
business compute needs, as well as allowing for a tertiary data backup beyond the local and
main data storage locations at the corporate headquarters. This is another example of how
upgrading the infrastructure will allow for the business to become more productive by
taking advantage of additional tools like cloud computing. "Cloud computing information
centers give high extensibility, achievement, and approach to effective limitless computing
capacity to application suppliers" tiNazir et al. 2021, p. 3537)
Recommendations
The recommendation with the most significant impact will be migrating from
100baseTtilEEE 802.3u) to 1000baseT ti IEEE 802.3ab) and properly segmenting the
network. Based on the current state and structure of the network at each location the most
significant data bottleneck. Along with the data throughput there is also significant added
security risks to each network due to how they are structured and unsegmented.
The biggest advantages in migrating to a newer ethernet protocol and associated speed, will
be the improved data throughput. "However, the interconnection of dissimilar LANs and
devices over a high-speed backbone network can create congestion at a destination LAN
tioutput) gateway when more than one device or LAN attempt is made to communicate
simultaneously with the same device or LAN. We address the issue of congestion avoidance
in LANs interconnected by a high-speed backbone" tiHassanein 1997, p. 261). Through
migration to the 1000baseT standard and moving from a 100mbps to a 1000mbps
backbone, the ten fold increase in speed will prevent and or mitigate the majority of the
congestion. In combination with a network restructure to isolate like devices to their own
LAN, this will further prevent the congestion mentioned by Hassanein.
The most significant disadvantage to adopting this standard will be the cost and time
involved with such an upgrade. If building a new network there would not be a significant
difference in cost as most all newer devices have already adopted 1000baseT standard for
network connectivity. When considering International Plastics Inc. it may prove necessary to
not only upgrade and replace all switches, and routers, it may also be necessary to replace
some or all of the workstation computers if they do not have 1000baseT network cards or
purchase cards for each device. Additionally, even though CAT5 cabling is capable of
delivering 1000mbps speeds, depending on the length of the runs and cable degradation
since installation it may be necessary to replace significant amount of the cabling to avoid
loss in connectivity and speed. Finally attributing to the cost will be the need for additional
switches, patch panels, routers and cabling in order to facilitate the segmentation of the
new network infrastructure proposed.
Despite the disadvantage of cost, upgrading the LAN backbone at each site would provide
the most direct and significant impact for business performance. Each location has between
25 and 50 employees utilizing computers and around 25 VOIP phones. Provided an
estimated required bandwidth of 5Mbps per VOIP phone the 100Mbps connection could be
completely saturated if all 25 phones where in use. Although this is unlikely, in combination
with bandwidth needs of the computers and other devices a 100mbps connection is simply
not enough. Through this upgrade, it is expected that employees will have better call quality
leading to less repetition as well as faster access to LAN services such and exchange, and
NAS. All of these small improvements result in significant increases in eficiency and
productivity.
The Albany location has a singular T2 connection to the WAN which provides its connectivity
to the corporate headquarters building. Inside the location there are 20 computers and a
printer wired into a 48 ports patch panel and then a 48 port switch, there is a 24 port switch
which provides connectivity to the manufacturing floor all cabling at this site is CATS. There
is a NAS, and local ERP server at this location to provide local data backup which is protected
by a UPS in case of power failure. There is a fiber connection between the local ERP server
and the NAS to facilitate faster data access. Finally there is firewall monitoring the T2 WAN
connection to provide some additional security to the local network. The Pontiac location is
very similarly built to the Albany location with the exception that it is a larger network. The
Pontiac location has 45 computers running the same Windows 7 and Ofice 2007 along with
4 printers.
Running a business in an ever forward moving technological world ensuring that a business
is is keeping up with technology has become critical to maintaining and improving business
performance. "The advancement of technology and the changing global business
environment have compelled the transformation of a warehouse" tiKumar et al., 2021, p.
3470). Utilizing enhances tools for tracking warehouse inventory, production and progress,
will move the business towards increased performance and eficiency as data transparency
increases. This increased insight into production and stocks will lead to increased
manufacturing eficiency while also reducing waste and cost through more informed
ordering of materials and supplies. Beyond these changes and advancements, simply
upgrading the equipment that is on site will greatly improve eficiency. Upgrading the
infrastructure to allow for greater data transfer speeds between employee computers and
local storage, means it takes less time to open and save documents saved on the local NAS,
increased backup speeds, less time waiting for calculations to occur and applications to
load. All of these time savings accumulate into increased eficiency and performance. Adding
new cloud based solution into the new IT infrastructure will allow for future growth in
business compute needs, as well as allowing for a tertiary data backup beyond the local and
main data storage locations at the corporate headquarters. This is another example of how
upgrading the infrastructure will allow for the business to become more productive by
taking advantage of additional tools like cloud computing. "Cloud computing information
centers give high extensibility, achievement, and approach to effective limitless computing
capacity to application suppliers" tiNazir et al. 2021, p. 3537)
Recommendations
The recommendation with the most significant impact will be migrating from
100baseTtilEEE 802.3u) to 1000baseT ti IEEE 802.3ab) and properly segmenting the
network. Based on the current state and structure of the network at each location the most
significant data bottleneck. Along with the data throughput there is also significant added
security risks to each network due to how they are structured and unsegmented.
The biggest advantages in migrating to a newer ethernet protocol and associated speed, will
be the improved data throughput. "However, the interconnection of dissimilar LANs and
devices over a high-speed backbone network can create congestion at a destination LAN
tioutput) gateway when more than one device or LAN attempt is made to communicate
simultaneously with the same device or LAN. We address the issue of congestion avoidance
in LANs interconnected by a high-speed backbone" tiHassanein 1997, p. 261). Through
migration to the 1000baseT standard and moving from a 100mbps to a 1000mbps
backbone, the ten fold increase in speed will prevent and or mitigate the majority of the
congestion. In combination with a network restructure to isolate like devices to their own
LAN, this will further prevent the congestion mentioned by Hassanein.
The most significant disadvantage to adopting this standard will be the cost and time
involved with such an upgrade. If building a new network there would not be a significant
difference in cost as most all newer devices have already adopted 1000baseT standard for
network connectivity. When considering International Plastics Inc. it may prove necessary to
not only upgrade and replace all switches, and routers, it may also be necessary to replace
some or all of the workstation computers if they do not have 1000baseT network cards or
purchase cards for each device. Additionally, even though CAT5 cabling is capable of
delivering 1000mbps speeds, depending on the length of the runs and cable degradation
since installation it may be necessary to replace significant amount of the cabling to avoid
loss in connectivity and speed. Finally attributing to the cost will be the need for additional
switches, patch panels, routers and cabling in order to facilitate the segmentation of the
new network infrastructure proposed.
Despite the disadvantage of cost, upgrading the LAN backbone at each site would provide
the most direct and significant impact for business performance. Each location has between
25 and 50 employees utilizing computers and around 25 VOIP phones. Provided an
estimated required bandwidth of 5Mbps per VOIP phone the 100Mbps connection could be
completely saturated if all 25 phones where in use. Although this is unlikely, in combination
with bandwidth needs of the computers and other devices a 100mbps connection is simply
not enough. Through this upgrade, it is expected that employees will have better call quality
leading to less repetition as well as faster access to LAN services such and exchange, and
NAS. All of these small improvements result in significant increases in eficiency and
productivity.
The Albany location has a singular T2 connection to the WAN which provides its connectivity
to the corporate headquarters building. Inside the location there are 20 computers and a
printer wired into a 48 ports patch panel and then a 48 port switch, there is a 24 port switch
which provides connectivity to the manufacturing floor all cabling at this site is CATS. There
is a NAS, and local ERP server at this location to provide local data backup which is protected
by a UPS in case of power failure. There is a fiber connection between the local ERP server
and the NAS to facilitate faster data access. Finally there is firewall monitoring the T2 WAN
connection to provide some additional security to the local network. The Pontiac location is
very similarly built to the Albany location with the exception that it is a larger network. The
Pontiac location has 45 computers running the same Windows 7 and Ofice 2007 along with
4 printers.
Running a business in an ever forward moving technological world ensuring that a business
is is keeping up with technology has become critical to maintaining and improving business
performance. "The advancement of technology and the changing global business
environment have compelled the transformation of a warehouse" tiKumar et al., 2021, p.
3470). Utilizing enhances tools for tracking warehouse inventory, production and progress,
will move the business towards increased performance and eficiency as data transparency
increases. This increased insight into production and stocks will lead to increased
manufacturing eficiency while also reducing waste and cost through more informed
ordering of materials and supplies. Beyond these changes and advancements, simply
upgrading the equipment that is on site will greatly improve eficiency. Upgrading the
infrastructure to allow for greater data transfer speeds between employee computers and
local storage, means it takes less time to open and save documents saved on the local NAS,
increased backup speeds, less time waiting for calculations to occur and applications to
load. All of these time savings accumulate into increased eficiency and performance. Adding
new cloud based solution into the new IT infrastructure will allow for future growth in
business compute needs, as well as allowing for a tertiary data backup beyond the local and
main data storage locations at the corporate headquarters. This is another example of how
upgrading the infrastructure will allow for the business to become more productive by
taking advantage of additional tools like cloud computing. "Cloud computing information
centers give high extensibility, achievement, and approach to effective limitless computing
capacity to application suppliers" tiNazir et al. 2021, p. 3537)
Recommendations
The recommendation with the most significant impact will be migrating from
100baseTtilEEE 802.3u) to 1000baseT ti IEEE 802.3ab) and properly segmenting the
network. Based on the current state and structure of the network at each location the most
significant data bottleneck. Along with the data throughput there is also significant added
security risks to each network due to how they are structured and unsegmented.
The biggest advantages in migrating to a newer ethernet protocol and associated speed, will
be the improved data throughput. "However, the interconnection of dissimilar LANs and
devices over a high-speed backbone network can create congestion at a destination LAN
tioutput) gateway when more than one device or LAN attempt is made to communicate
simultaneously with the same device or LAN. We address the issue of congestion avoidance
in LANs interconnected by a high-speed backbone" tiHassanein 1997, p. 261). Through
migration to the 1000baseT standard and moving from a 100mbps to a 1000mbps
backbone, the ten fold increase in speed will prevent and or mitigate the majority of the
congestion. In combination with a network restructure to isolate like devices to their own
LAN, this will further prevent the congestion mentioned by Hassanein.
The most significant disadvantage to adopting this standard will be the cost and time
involved with such an upgrade. If building a new network there would not be a significant
difference in cost as most all newer devices have already adopted 1000baseT standard for
network connectivity. When considering International Plastics Inc. it may prove necessary to
not only upgrade and replace all switches, and routers, it may also be necessary to replace
some or all of the workstation computers if they do not have 1000baseT network cards or
purchase cards for each device. Additionally, even though CAT5 cabling is capable of
delivering 1000mbps speeds, depending on the length of the runs and cable degradation
since installation it may be necessary to replace significant amount of the cabling to avoid
loss in connectivity and speed. Finally attributing to the cost will be the need for additional
switches, patch panels, routers and cabling in order to facilitate the segmentation of the
new network infrastructure proposed.
Despite the disadvantage of cost, upgrading the LAN backbone at each site would provide
the most direct and significant impact for business performance. Each location has between
25 and 50 employees utilizing computers and around 25 VOIP phones. Provided an
estimated required bandwidth of 5Mbps per VOIP phone the 100Mbps connection could be
completely saturated if all 25 phones where in use. Although this is unlikely, in combination
with bandwidth needs of the computers and other devices a 100mbps connection is simply
not enough. Through this upgrade, it is expected that employees will have better call quality
leading to less repetition as well as faster access to LAN services such and exchange, and
NAS. All of these small improvements result in significant increases in eficiency and
productivity.
The Albany location has a singular T2 connection to the WAN which provides its connectivity
to the corporate headquarters building. Inside the location there are 20 computers and a
printer wired into a 48 ports patch panel and then a 48 port switch, there is a 24 port switch
which provides connectivity to the manufacturing floor all cabling at this site is CATS. There
is a NAS, and local ERP server at this location to provide local data backup which is protected
by a UPS in case of power failure. There is a fiber connection between the local ERP server
and the NAS to facilitate faster data access. Finally there is firewall monitoring the T2 WAN
connection to provide some additional security to the local network. The Pontiac location is
very similarly built to the Albany location with the exception that it is a larger network. The
Pontiac location has 45 computers running the same Windows 7 and Ofice 2007 along with
4 printers.
Running a business in an ever forward moving technological world ensuring that a business
is is keeping up with technology has become critical to maintaining and improving business
performance. "The advancement of technology and the changing global business
environment have compelled the transformation of a warehouse" tiKumar et al., 2021, p.
3470). Utilizing enhances tools for tracking warehouse inventory, production and progress,
will move the business towards increased performance and eficiency as data transparency
increases. This increased insight into production and stocks will lead to increased
manufacturing eficiency while also reducing waste and cost through more informed
ordering of materials and supplies. Beyond these changes and advancements, simply
upgrading the equipment that is on site will greatly improve eficiency. Upgrading the
infrastructure to allow for greater data transfer speeds between employee computers and
local storage, means it takes less time to open and save documents saved on the local NAS,
increased backup speeds, less time waiting for calculations to occur and applications to
load. All of these time savings accumulate into increased eficiency and performance. Adding
new cloud based solution into the new IT infrastructure will allow for future growth in
business compute needs, as well as allowing for a tertiary data backup beyond the local and
main data storage locations at the corporate headquarters. This is another example of how
upgrading the infrastructure will allow for the business to become more productive by
taking advantage of additional tools like cloud computing. "Cloud computing information
centers give high extensibility, achievement, and approach to effective limitless computing
capacity to application suppliers" tiNazir et al. 2021, p. 3537)
Recommendations
The recommendation with the most significant impact will be migrating from
100baseTtilEEE 802.3u) to 1000baseT ti IEEE 802.3ab) and properly segmenting the
network. Based on the current state and structure of the network at each location the most
significant data bottleneck. Along with the data throughput there is also significant added
security risks to each network due to how they are structured and unsegmented.
The biggest advantages in migrating to a newer ethernet protocol and associated speed, will
be the improved data throughput. "However, the interconnection of dissimilar LANs and
devices over a high-speed backbone network can create congestion at a destination LAN
tioutput) gateway when more than one device or LAN attempt is made to communicate
simultaneously with the same device or LAN. We address the issue of congestion avoidance
in LANs interconnected by a high-speed backbone" tiHassanein 1997, p. 261). Through
migration to the 1000baseT standard and moving from a 100mbps to a 1000mbps
backbone, the ten fold increase in speed will prevent and or mitigate the majority of the
congestion. In combination with a network restructure to isolate like devices to their own
LAN, this will further prevent the congestion mentioned by Hassanein.
The most significant disadvantage to adopting this standard will be the cost and time
involved with such an upgrade. If building a new network there would not be a significant
difference in cost as most all newer devices have already adopted 1000baseT standard for
network connectivity. When considering International Plastics Inc. it may prove necessary to
not only upgrade and replace all switches, and routers, it may also be necessary to replace
some or all of the workstation computers if they do not have 1000baseT network cards or
purchase cards for each device. Additionally, even though CAT5 cabling is capable of
delivering 1000mbps speeds, depending on the length of the runs and cable degradation
since installation it may be necessary to replace significant amount of the cabling to avoid
loss in connectivity and speed. Finally attributing to the cost will be the need for additional
switches, patch panels, routers and cabling in order to facilitate the segmentation of the
new network infrastructure proposed.
Despite the disadvantage of cost, upgrading the LAN backbone at each site would provide
the most direct and significant impact for business performance. Each location has between
25 and 50 employees utilizing computers and around 25 VOIP phones. Provided an
estimated required bandwidth of 5Mbps per VOIP phone the 100Mbps connection could be
completely saturated if all 25 phones where in use. Although this is unlikely, in combination
with bandwidth needs of the computers and other devices a 100mbps connection is simply
not enough. Through this upgrade, it is expected that employees will have better call quality
leading to less repetition as well as faster access to LAN services such and exchange, and
NAS. All of these small improvements result in significant increases in eficiency and
productivity.
The Albany location has a singular T2 connection to the WAN which provides its connectivity
to the corporate headquarters building. Inside the location there are 20 computers and a
printer wired into a 48 ports patch panel and then a 48 port switch, there is a 24 port switch
which provides connectivity to the manufacturing floor all cabling at this site is CATS. There
is a NAS, and local ERP server at this location to provide local data backup which is protected
by a UPS in case of power failure. There is a fiber connection between the local ERP server
and the NAS to facilitate faster data access. Finally there is firewall monitoring the T2 WAN
connection to provide some additional security to the local network. The Pontiac location is
very similarly built to the Albany location with the exception that it is a larger network. The
Pontiac location has 45 computers running the same Windows 7 and Ofice 2007 along with
4 printers.
Running a business in an ever forward moving technological world ensuring that a business
is is keeping up with technology has become critical to maintaining and improving business
performance. "The advancement of technology and the changing global business
environment have compelled the transformation of a warehouse" tiKumar et al., 2021, p.
3470). Utilizing enhances tools for tracking warehouse inventory, production and progress,
will move the business towards increased performance and eficiency as data transparency
increases. This increased insight into production and stocks will lead to increased
manufacturing eficiency while also reducing waste and cost through more informed
ordering of materials and supplies. Beyond these changes and advancements, simply
upgrading the equipment that is on site will greatly improve eficiency. Upgrading the
infrastructure to allow for greater data transfer speeds between employee computers and
local storage, means it takes less time to open and save documents saved on the local NAS,
increased backup speeds, less time waiting for calculations to occur and applications to
load. All of these time savings accumulate into increased eficiency and performance. Adding
new cloud based solution into the new IT infrastructure will allow for future growth in
business compute needs, as well as allowing for a tertiary data backup beyond the local and
main data storage locations at the corporate headquarters. This is another example of how
upgrading the infrastructure will allow for the business to become more productive by
taking advantage of additional tools like cloud computing. "Cloud computing information
centers give high extensibility, achievement, and approach to effective limitless computing
capacity to application suppliers" tiNazir et al. 2021, p. 3537)
Recommendations
The recommendation with the most significant impact will be migrating from
100baseTtilEEE 802.3u) to 1000baseT ti IEEE 802.3ab) and properly segmenting the
network. Based on the current state and structure of the network at each location the most
significant data bottleneck. Along with the data throughput there is also significant added
security risks to each network due to how they are structured and unsegmented.
The biggest advantages in migrating to a newer ethernet protocol and associated speed, will
be the improved data throughput. "However, the interconnection of dissimilar LANs and
devices over a high-speed backbone network can create congestion at a destination LAN
tioutput) gateway when more than one device or LAN attempt is made to communicate
simultaneously with the same device or LAN. We address the issue of congestion avoidance
in LANs interconnected by a high-speed backbone" tiHassanein 1997, p. 261). Through
migration to the 1000baseT standard and moving from a 100mbps to a 1000mbps
backbone, the ten fold increase in speed will prevent and or mitigate the majority of the
congestion. In combination with a network restructure to isolate like devices to their own
LAN, this will further prevent the congestion mentioned by Hassanein.
The most significant disadvantage to adopting this standard will be the cost and time
involved with such an upgrade. If building a new network there would not be a significant
difference in cost as most all newer devices have already adopted 1000baseT standard for
network connectivity. When considering International Plastics Inc. it may prove necessary to
not only upgrade and replace all switches, and routers, it may also be necessary to replace
some or all of the workstation computers if they do not have 1000baseT network cards or
purchase cards for each device. Additionally, even though CAT5 cabling is capable of
delivering 1000mbps speeds, depending on the length of the runs and cable degradation
since installation it may be necessary to replace significant amount of the cabling to avoid
loss in connectivity and speed. Finally attributing to the cost will be the need for additional
switches, patch panels, routers and cabling in order to facilitate the segmentation of the
new network infrastructure proposed.
Despite the disadvantage of cost, upgrading the LAN backbone at each site would provide
the most direct and significant impact for business performance. Each location has between
25 and 50 employees utilizing computers and around 25 VOIP phones. Provided an
estimated required bandwidth of 5Mbps per VOIP phone the 100Mbps connection could be
completely saturated if all 25 phones where in use. Although this is unlikely, in combination
with bandwidth needs of the computers and other devices a 100mbps connection is simply
not enough. Through this upgrade, it is expected that employees will have better call quality
leading to less repetition as well as faster access to LAN services such and exchange, and
NAS. All of these small improvements result in significant increases in eficiency and
productivity.
The Albany location has a singular T2 connection to the WAN which provides its connectivity
to the corporate headquarters building. Inside the location there are 20 computers and a
printer wired into a 48 ports patch panel and then a 48 port switch, there is a 24 port switch
which provides connectivity to the manufacturing floor all cabling at this site is CATS. There
is a NAS, and local ERP server at this location to provide local data backup which is protected
by a UPS in case of power failure. There is a fiber connection between the local ERP server
and the NAS to facilitate faster data access. Finally there is firewall monitoring the T2 WAN
connection to provide some additional security to the local network. The Pontiac location is
very similarly built to the Albany location with the exception that it is a larger network. The
Pontiac location has 45 computers running the same Windows 7 and Ofice 2007 along with
4 printers.
Running a business in an ever forward moving technological world ensuring that a business
is is keeping up with technology has become critical to maintaining and improving business
performance. "The advancement of technology and the changing global business
environment have compelled the transformation of a warehouse" tiKumar et al., 2021, p.
3470). Utilizing enhances tools for tracking warehouse inventory, production and progress,
will move the business towards increased performance and eficiency as data transparency
increases. This increased insight into production and stocks will lead to increased
manufacturing eficiency while also reducing waste and cost through more informed
ordering of materials and supplies. Beyond these changes and advancements, simply
upgrading the equipment that is on site will greatly improve eficiency. Upgrading the
infrastructure to allow for greater data transfer speeds between employee computers and
local storage, means it takes less time to open and save documents saved on the local NAS,
increased backup speeds, less time waiting for calculations to occur and applications to
load. All of these time savings accumulate into increased eficiency and performance. Adding
new cloud based solution into the new IT infrastructure will allow for future growth in
business compute needs, as well as allowing for a tertiary data backup beyond the local and
main data storage locations at the corporate headquarters. This is another example of how
upgrading the infrastructure will allow for the business to become more productive by
taking advantage of additional tools like cloud computing. "Cloud computing information
centers give high extensibility, achievement, and approach to effective limitless computing
capacity to application suppliers" tiNazir et al. 2021, p. 3537)
Recommendations
The recommendation with the most significant impact will be migrating from
100baseTtilEEE 802.3u) to 1000baseT ti IEEE 802.3ab) and properly segmenting the
network. Based on the current state and structure of the network at each location the most
significant data bottleneck. Along with the data throughput there is also significant added
security risks to each network due to how they are structured and unsegmented.
The biggest advantages in migrating to a newer ethernet protocol and associated speed, will
be the improved data throughput. "However, the interconnection of dissimilar LANs and
devices over a high-speed backbone network can create congestion at a destination LAN
tioutput) gateway when more than one device or LAN attempt is made to communicate
simultaneously with the same device or LAN. We address the issue of congestion avoidance
in LANs interconnected by a high-speed backbone" tiHassanein 1997, p. 261). Through
migration to the 1000baseT standard and moving from a 100mbps to a 1000mbps
backbone, the ten fold increase in speed will prevent and or mitigate the majority of the
congestion. In combination with a network restructure to isolate like devices to their own
LAN, this will further prevent the congestion mentioned by Hassanein.
The most significant disadvantage to adopting this standard will be the cost and time
involved with such an upgrade. If building a new network there would not be a significant
difference in cost as most all newer devices have already adopted 1000baseT standard for
network connectivity. When considering International Plastics Inc. it may prove necessary to
not only upgrade and replace all switches, and routers, it may also be necessary to replace
some or all of the workstation computers if they do not have 1000baseT network cards or
purchase cards for each device. Additionally, even though CAT5 cabling is capable of
delivering 1000mbps speeds, depending on the length of the runs and cable degradation
since installation it may be necessary to replace significant amount of the cabling to avoid
loss in connectivity and speed. Finally attributing to the cost will be the need for additional
switches, patch panels, routers and cabling in order to facilitate the segmentation of the
new network infrastructure proposed.
Despite the disadvantage of cost, upgrading the LAN backbone at each site would provide
the most direct and significant impact for business performance. Each location has between
25 and 50 employees utilizing computers and around 25 VOIP phones. Provided an
estimated required bandwidth of 5Mbps per VOIP phone the 100Mbps connection could be
completely saturated if all 25 phones where in use. Although this is unlikely, in combination
with bandwidth needs of the computers and other devices a 100mbps connection is simply
not enough. Through this upgrade, it is expected that employees will have better call quality
leading to less repetition as well as faster access to LAN services such and exchange, and
NAS. All of these small improvements result in significant increases in eficiency and
productivity.
The Albany location has a singular T2 connection to the WAN which provides its connectivity
to the corporate headquarters building. Inside the location there are 20 computers and a
printer wired into a 48 ports patch panel and then a 48 port switch, there is a 24 port switch
which provides connectivity to the manufacturing floor all cabling at this site is CATS. There
is a NAS, and local ERP server at this location to provide local data backup which is protected
by a UPS in case of power failure. There is a fiber connection between the local ERP server
and the NAS to facilitate faster data access. Finally there is firewall monitoring the T2 WAN
connection to provide some additional security to the local network. The Pontiac location is
very similarly built to the Albany location with the exception that it is a larger network. The
Pontiac location has 45 computers running the same Windows 7 and Ofice 2007 along with
4 printers.
Running a business in an ever forward moving technological world ensuring that a business
is is keeping up with technology has become critical to maintaining and improving business
performance. "The advancement of technology and the changing global business
environment have compelled the transformation of a warehouse" tiKumar et al., 2021, p.
3470). Utilizing enhances tools for tracking warehouse inventory, production and progress,
will move the business towards increased performance and eficiency as data transparency
increases. This increased insight into production and stocks will lead to increased
manufacturing eficiency while also reducing waste and cost through more informed
ordering of materials and supplies. Beyond these changes and advancements, simply
upgrading the equipment that is on site will greatly improve eficiency. Upgrading the
infrastructure to allow for greater data transfer speeds between employee computers and
local storage, means it takes less time to open and save documents saved on the local NAS,
increased backup speeds, less time waiting for calculations to occur and applications to
load. All of these time savings accumulate into increased eficiency and performance. Adding
new cloud based solution into the new IT infrastructure will allow for future growth in
business compute needs, as well as allowing for a tertiary data backup beyond the local and
main data storage locations at the corporate headquarters. This is another example of how
upgrading the infrastructure will allow for the business to become more productive by
taking advantage of additional tools like cloud computing. "Cloud computing information
centers give high extensibility, achievement, and approach to effective limitless computing
capacity to application suppliers" tiNazir et al. 2021, p. 3537)
Recommendations
The recommendation with the most significant impact will be migrating from
100baseTtilEEE 802.3u) to 1000baseT ti IEEE 802.3ab) and properly segmenting the
network. Based on the current state and structure of the network at each location the most
significant data bottleneck. Along with the data throughput there is also significant added
security risks to each network due to how they are structured and unsegmented.
The biggest advantages in migrating to a newer ethernet protocol and associated speed, will
be the improved data throughput. "However, the interconnection of dissimilar LANs and
devices over a high-speed backbone network can create congestion at a destination LAN
tioutput) gateway when more than one device or LAN attempt is made to communicate
simultaneously with the same device or LAN. We address the issue of congestion avoidance
in LANs interconnected by a high-speed backbone" tiHassanein 1997, p. 261). Through
migration to the 1000baseT standard and moving from a 100mbps to a 1000mbps
backbone, the ten fold increase in speed will prevent and or mitigate the majority of the
congestion. In combination with a network restructure to isolate like devices to their own
LAN, this will further prevent the congestion mentioned by Hassanein.
The most significant disadvantage to adopting this standard will be the cost and time
involved with such an upgrade. If building a new network there would not be a significant
difference in cost as most all newer devices have already adopted 1000baseT standard for
network connectivity. When considering International Plastics Inc. it may prove necessary to
not only upgrade and replace all switches, and routers, it may also be necessary to replace
some or all of the workstation computers if they do not have 1000baseT network cards or
purchase cards for each device. Additionally, even though CAT5 cabling is capable of
delivering 1000mbps speeds, depending on the length of the runs and cable degradation
since installation it may be necessary to replace significant amount of the cabling to avoid
loss in connectivity and speed. Finally attributing to the cost will be the need for additional
switches, patch panels, routers and cabling in order to facilitate the segmentation of the
new network infrastructure proposed.
Despite the disadvantage of cost, upgrading the LAN backbone at each site would provide
the most direct and significant impact for business performance. Each location has between
25 and 50 employees utilizing computers and around 25 VOIP phones. Provided an
estimated required bandwidth of 5Mbps per VOIP phone the 100Mbps connection could be
completely saturated if all 25 phones where in use. Although this is unlikely, in combination
with bandwidth needs of the computers and other devices a 100mbps connection is simply
not enough. Through this upgrade, it is expected that employees will have better call quality
leading to less repetition as well as faster access to LAN services such and exchange, and
NAS. All of these small improvements result in significant increases in eficiency and
productivity.
The Albany location has a singular T2 connection to the WAN which provides its connectivity
to the corporate headquarters building. Inside the location there are 20 computers and a
printer wired into a 48 ports patch panel and then a 48 port switch, there is a 24 port switch
which provides connectivity to the manufacturing floor all cabling at this site is CATS. There
is a NAS, and local ERP server at this location to provide local data backup which is protected
by a UPS in case of power failure. There is a fiber connection between the local ERP server
and the NAS to facilitate faster data access. Finally there is firewall monitoring the T2 WAN
connection to provide some additional security to the local network. The Pontiac location is
very similarly built to the Albany location with the exception that it is a larger network. The
Pontiac location has 45 computers running the same Windows 7 and Ofice 2007 along with
4 printers.
Running a business in an ever forward moving technological world ensuring that a business
is is keeping up with technology has become critical to maintaining and improving business
performance. "The advancement of technology and the changing global business
environment have compelled the transformation of a warehouse" tiKumar et al., 2021, p.
3470). Utilizing enhances tools for tracking warehouse inventory, production and progress,
will move the business towards increased performance and eficiency as data transparency
increases. This increased insight into production and stocks will lead to increased
manufacturing eficiency while also reducing waste and cost through more informed
ordering of materials and supplies. Beyond these changes and advancements, simply
upgrading the equipment that is on site will greatly improve eficiency. Upgrading the
infrastructure to allow for greater data transfer speeds between employee computers and
local storage, means it takes less time to open and save documents saved on the local NAS,
increased backup speeds, less time waiting for calculations to occur and applications to
load. All of these time savings accumulate into increased eficiency and performance. Adding
new cloud based solution into the new IT infrastructure will allow for future growth in
business compute needs, as well as allowing for a tertiary data backup beyond the local and
main data storage locations at the corporate headquarters. This is another example of how
upgrading the infrastructure will allow for the business to become more productive by
taking advantage of additional tools like cloud computing. "Cloud computing information
centers give high extensibility, achievement, and approach to effective limitless computing
capacity to application suppliers" tiNazir et al. 2021, p. 3537)
Recommendations
The recommendation with the most significant impact will be migrating from
100baseTtilEEE 802.3u) to 1000baseT ti IEEE 802.3ab) and properly segmenting the
network. Based on the current state and structure of the network at each location the most
significant data bottleneck. Along with the data throughput there is also significant added
security risks to each network due to how they are structured and unsegmented.
The biggest advantages in migrating to a newer ethernet protocol and associated speed, will
be the improved data throughput. "However, the interconnection of dissimilar LANs and
devices over a high-speed backbone network can create congestion at a destination LAN
tioutput) gateway when more than one device or LAN attempt is made to communicate
simultaneously with the same device or LAN. We address the issue of congestion avoidance
in LANs interconnected by a high-speed backbone" tiHassanein 1997, p. 261). Through
migration to the 1000baseT standard and moving from a 100mbps to a 1000mbps
backbone, the ten fold increase in speed will prevent and or mitigate the majority of the
congestion. In combination with a network restructure to isolate like devices to their own
LAN, this will further prevent the congestion mentioned by Hassanein.
The most significant disadvantage to adopting this standard will be the cost and time
involved with such an upgrade. If building a new network there would not be a significant
difference in cost as most all newer devices have already adopted 1000baseT standard for
network connectivity. When considering International Plastics Inc. it may prove necessary to
not only upgrade and replace all switches, and routers, it may also be necessary to replace
some or all of the workstation computers if they do not have 1000baseT network cards or
purchase cards for each device. Additionally, even though CAT5 cabling is capable of
delivering 1000mbps speeds, depending on the length of the runs and cable degradation
since installation it may be necessary to replace significant amount of the cabling to avoid
loss in connectivity and speed. Finally attributing to the cost will be the need for additional
switches, patch panels, routers and cabling in order to facilitate the segmentation of the
new network infrastructure proposed.
Despite the disadvantage of cost, upgrading the LAN backbone at each site would provide
the most direct and significant impact for business performance. Each location has between
25 and 50 employees utilizing computers and around 25 VOIP phones. Provided an
estimated required bandwidth of 5Mbps per VOIP phone the 100Mbps connection could be
completely saturated if all 25 phones where in use. Although this is unlikely, in combination
with bandwidth needs of the computers and other devices a 100mbps connection is simply
not enough. Through this upgrade, it is expected that employees will have better call quality
leading to less repetition as well as faster access to LAN services such and exchange, and
NAS. All of these small improvements result in significant increases in eficiency and
productivity.
The Albany location has a singular T2 connection to the WAN which provides its connectivity
to the corporate headquarters building. Inside the location there are 20 computers and a
printer wired into a 48 ports patch panel and then a 48 port switch, there is a 24 port switch
which provides connectivity to the manufacturing floor all cabling at this site is CATS. There
is a NAS, and local ERP server at this location to provide local data backup which is protected
by a UPS in case of power failure. There is a fiber connection between the local ERP server
and the NAS to facilitate faster data access. Finally there is firewall monitoring the T2 WAN
connection to provide some additional security to the local network. The Pontiac location is
very similarly built to the Albany location with the exception that it is a larger network. The
Pontiac location has 45 computers running the same Windows 7 and Ofice 2007 along with
4 printers.
Running a business in an ever forward moving technological world ensuring that a business
is is keeping up with technology has become critical to maintaining and improving business
performance. "The advancement of technology and the changing global business
environment have compelled the transformation of a warehouse" tiKumar et al., 2021, p.
3470). Utilizing enhances tools for tracking warehouse inventory, production and progress,
will move the business towards increased performance and eficiency as data transparency
increases. This increased insight into production and stocks will lead to increased
manufacturing eficiency while also reducing waste and cost through more informed
ordering of materials and supplies. Beyond these changes and advancements, simply
upgrading the equipment that is on site will greatly improve eficiency. Upgrading the
infrastructure to allow for greater data transfer speeds between employee computers and
local storage, means it takes less time to open and save documents saved on the local NAS,
increased backup speeds, less time waiting for calculations to occur and applications to
load. All of these time savings accumulate into increased eficiency and performance. Adding
new cloud based solution into the new IT infrastructure will allow for future growth in
business compute needs, as well as allowing for a tertiary data backup beyond the local and
main data storage locations at the corporate headquarters. This is another example of how
upgrading the infrastructure will allow for the business to become more productive by
taking advantage of additional tools like cloud computing. "Cloud computing information
centers give high extensibility, achievement, and approach to effective limitless computing
capacity to application suppliers" tiNazir et al. 2021, p. 3537)
Recommendations
The recommendation with the most significant impact will be migrating from
100baseTtilEEE 802.3u) to 1000baseT ti IEEE 802.3ab) and properly segmenting the
network. Based on the current state and structure of the network at each location the most
significant data bottleneck. Along with the data throughput there is also significant added
security risks to each network due to how they are structured and unsegmented.
The biggest advantages in migrating to a newer ethernet protocol and associated speed, will
be the improved data throughput. "However, the interconnection of dissimilar LANs and
devices over a high-speed backbone network can create congestion at a destination LAN
tioutput) gateway when more than one device or LAN attempt is made to communicate
simultaneously with the same device or LAN. We address the issue of congestion avoidance
in LANs interconnected by a high-speed backbone" tiHassanein 1997, p. 261). Through
migration to the 1000baseT standard and moving from a 100mbps to a 1000mbps
backbone, the ten fold increase in speed will prevent and or mitigate the majority of the
congestion. In combination with a network restructure to isolate like devices to their own
LAN, this will further prevent the congestion mentioned by Hassanein.
The most significant disadvantage to adopting this standard will be the cost and time
involved with such an upgrade. If building a new network there would not be a significant
difference in cost as most all newer devices have already adopted 1000baseT standard for
network connectivity. When considering International Plastics Inc. it may prove necessary to
not only upgrade and replace all switches, and routers, it may also be necessary to replace
some or all of the workstation computers if they do not have 1000baseT network cards or
purchase cards for each device. Additionally, even though CAT5 cabling is capable of
delivering 1000mbps speeds, depending on the length of the runs and cable degradation
since installation it may be necessary to replace significant amount of the cabling to avoid
loss in connectivity and speed. Finally attributing to the cost will be the need for additional
switches, patch panels, routers and cabling in order to facilitate the segmentation of the
new network infrastructure proposed.
Despite the disadvantage of cost, upgrading the LAN backbone at each site would provide
the most direct and significant impact for business performance. Each location has between
25 and 50 employees utilizing computers and around 25 VOIP phones. Provided an
estimated required bandwidth of 5Mbps per VOIP phone the 100Mbps connection could be
completely saturated if all 25 phones where in use. Although this is unlikely, in combination
with bandwidth needs of the computers and other devices a 100mbps connection is simply
not enough. Through this upgrade, it is expected that employees will have better call quality
leading to less repetition as well as faster access to LAN services such and exchange, and
NAS. All of these small improvements result in significant increases in eficiency and
productivity.
The Albany location has a singular T2 connection to the WAN which provides its connectivity
to the corporate headquarters building. Inside the location there are 20 computers and a
printer wired into a 48 ports patch panel and then a 48 port switch, there is a 24 port switch
which provides connectivity to the manufacturing floor all cabling at this site is CATS. There
is a NAS, and local ERP server at this location to provide local data backup which is protected
by a UPS in case of power failure. There is a fiber connection between the local ERP server
and the NAS to facilitate faster data access. Finally there is firewall monitoring the T2 WAN
connection to provide some additional security to the local network. The Pontiac location is
very similarly built to the Albany location with the exception that it is a larger network. The
Pontiac location has 45 computers running the same Windows 7 and Ofice 2007 along with
4 printers.
Running a business in an ever forward moving technological world ensuring that a business
is is keeping up with technology has become critical to maintaining and improving business
performance. "The advancement of technology and the changing global business
environment have compelled the transformation of a warehouse" tiKumar et al., 2021, p.
3470). Utilizing enhances tools for tracking warehouse inventory, production and progress,
will move the business towards increased performance and eficiency as data transparency
increases. This increased insight into production and stocks will lead to increased
manufacturing eficiency while also reducing waste and cost through more informed
ordering of materials and supplies. Beyond these changes and advancements, simply
upgrading the equipment that is on site will greatly improve eficiency. Upgrading the
infrastructure to allow for greater data transfer speeds between employee computers and
local storage, means it takes less time to open and save documents saved on the local NAS,
increased backup speeds, less time waiting for calculations to occur and applications to
load. All of these time savings accumulate into increased eficiency and performance. Adding
new cloud based solution into the new IT infrastructure will allow for future growth in
business compute needs, as well as allowing for a tertiary data backup beyond the local and
main data storage locations at the corporate headquarters. This is another example of how
upgrading the infrastructure will allow for the business to become more productive by
taking advantage of additional tools like cloud computing. "Cloud computing information
centers give high extensibility, achievement, and approach to effective limitless computing
capacity to application suppliers" tiNazir et al. 2021, p. 3537)
Recommendations
The recommendation with the most significant impact will be migrating from
100baseTtilEEE 802.3u) to 1000baseT ti IEEE 802.3ab) and properly segmenting the
network. Based on the current state and structure of the network at each location the most
significant data bottleneck. Along with the data throughput there is also significant added
security risks to each network due to how they are structured and unsegmented.
The biggest advantages in migrating to a newer ethernet protocol and associated speed, will
be the improved data throughput. "However, the interconnection of dissimilar LANs and
devices over a high-speed backbone network can create congestion at a destination LAN
tioutput) gateway when more than one device or LAN attempt is made to communicate
simultaneously with the same device or LAN. We address the issue of congestion avoidance
in LANs interconnected by a high-speed backbone" tiHassanein 1997, p. 261). Through
migration to the 1000baseT standard and moving from a 100mbps to a 1000mbps
backbone, the ten fold increase in speed will prevent and or mitigate the majority of the
congestion. In combination with a network restructure to isolate like devices to their own
LAN, this will further prevent the congestion mentioned by Hassanein.
The most significant disadvantage to adopting this standard will be the cost and time
involved with such an upgrade. If building a new network there would not be a significant
difference in cost as most all newer devices have already adopted 1000baseT standard for
network connectivity. When considering International Plastics Inc. it may prove necessary to
not only upgrade and replace all switches, and routers, it may also be necessary to replace
some or all of the workstation computers if they do not have 1000baseT network cards or
purchase cards for each device. Additionally, even though CAT5 cabling is capable of
delivering 1000mbps speeds, depending on the length of the runs and cable degradation
since installation it may be necessary to replace significant amount of the cabling to avoid
loss in connectivity and speed. Finally attributing to the cost will be the need for additional
switches, patch panels, routers and cabling in order to facilitate the segmentation of the
new network infrastructure proposed.
Despite the disadvantage of cost, upgrading the LAN backbone at each site would provide
the most direct and significant impact for business performance. Each location has between
25 and 50 employees utilizing computers and around 25 VOIP phones. Provided an
estimated required bandwidth of 5Mbps per VOIP phone the 100Mbps connection could be
completely saturated if all 25 phones where in use. Although this is unlikely, in combination
with bandwidth needs of the computers and other devices a 100mbps connection is simply
not enough. Through this upgrade, it is expected that employees will have better call quality
leading to less repetition as well as faster access to LAN services such and exchange, and
NAS. All of these small improvements result in significant increases in eficiency and
productivity.
The Albany location has a singular T2 connection to the WAN which provides its connectivity
to the corporate headquarters building. Inside the location there are 20 computers and a
printer wired into a 48 ports patch panel and then a 48 port switch, there is a 24 port switch
which provides connectivity to the manufacturing floor all cabling at this site is CATS. There
is a NAS, and local ERP server at this location to provide local data backup which is protected
by a UPS in case of power failure. There is a fiber connection between the local ERP server
and the NAS to facilitate faster data access. Finally there is firewall monitoring the T2 WAN
connection to provide some additional security to the local network. The Pontiac location is
very similarly built to the Albany location with the exception that it is a larger network. The
Pontiac location has 45 computers running the same Windows 7 and Ofice 2007 along with
4 printers.
Running a business in an ever forward moving technological world ensuring that a business
is is keeping up with technology has become critical to maintaining and improving business
performance. "The advancement of technology and the changing global business
environment have compelled the transformation of a warehouse" tiKumar et al., 2021, p.
3470). Utilizing enhances tools for tracking warehouse inventory, production and progress,
will move the business towards increased performance and eficiency as data transparency
increases. This increased insight into production and stocks will lead to increased
manufacturing eficiency while also reducing waste and cost through more informed
ordering of materials and supplies. Beyond these changes and advancements, simply
upgrading the equipment that is on site will greatly improve eficiency. Upgrading the
infrastructure to allow for greater data transfer speeds between employee computers and
local storage, means it takes less time to open and save documents saved on the local NAS,
increased backup speeds, less time waiting for calculations to occur and applications to
load. All of these time savings accumulate into increased eficiency and performance. Adding
new cloud based solution into the new IT infrastructure will allow for future growth in
business compute needs, as well as allowing for a tertiary data backup beyond the local and
main data storage locations at the corporate headquarters. This is another example of how
upgrading the infrastructure will allow for the business to become more productive by
taking advantage of additional tools like cloud computing. "Cloud computing information
centers give high extensibility, achievement, and approach to effective limitless computing
capacity to application suppliers" tiNazir et al. 2021, p. 3537)
Recommendations
The recommendation with the most significant impact will be migrating from
100baseTtilEEE 802.3u) to 1000baseT ti IEEE 802.3ab) and properly segmenting the
network. Based on the current state and structure of the network at each location the most
significant data bottleneck. Along with the data throughput there is also significant added
security risks to each network due to how they are structured and unsegmented.
The biggest advantages in migrating to a newer ethernet protocol and associated speed, will
be the improved data throughput. "However, the interconnection of dissimilar LANs and
devices over a high-speed backbone network can create congestion at a destination LAN
tioutput) gateway when more than one device or LAN attempt is made to communicate
simultaneously with the same device or LAN. We address the issue of congestion avoidance
in LANs interconnected by a high-speed backbone" tiHassanein 1997, p. 261). Through
migration to the 1000baseT standard and moving from a 100mbps to a 1000mbps
backbone, the ten fold increase in speed will prevent and or mitigate the majority of the
congestion. In combination with a network restructure to isolate like devices to their own
LAN, this will further prevent the congestion mentioned by Hassanein.
The most significant disadvantage to adopting this standard will be the cost and time
involved with such an upgrade. If building a new network there would not be a significant
difference in cost as most all newer devices have already adopted 1000baseT standard for
network connectivity. When considering International Plastics Inc. it may prove necessary to
not only upgrade and replace all switches, and routers, it may also be necessary to replace
some or all of the workstation computers if they do not have 1000baseT network cards or
purchase cards for each device. Additionally, even though CAT5 cabling is capable of
delivering 1000mbps speeds, depending on the length of the runs and cable degradation
since installation it may be necessary to replace significant amount of the cabling to avoid
loss in connectivity and speed. Finally attributing to the cost will be the need for additional
switches, patch panels, routers and cabling in order to facilitate the segmentation of the
new network infrastructure proposed.
Despite the disadvantage of cost, upgrading the LAN backbone at each site would provide
the most direct and significant impact for business performance. Each location has between
25 and 50 employees utilizing computers and around 25 VOIP phones. Provided an
estimated required bandwidth of 5Mbps per VOIP phone the 100Mbps connection could be
completely saturated if all 25 phones where in use. Although this is unlikely, in combination
with bandwidth needs of the computers and other devices a 100mbps connection is simply
not enough. Through this upgrade, it is expected that employees will have better call quality
leading to less repetition as well as faster access to LAN services such and exchange, and
NAS. All of these small improvements result in significant increases in eficiency and
productivity.
The Albany location has a singular T2 connection to the WAN which provides its connectivity
to the corporate headquarters building. Inside the location there are 20 computers and a
printer wired into a 48 ports patch panel and then a 48 port switch, there is a 24 port switch
which provides connectivity to the manufacturing floor all cabling at this site is CATS. There
is a NAS, and local ERP server at this location to provide local data backup which is protected
by a UPS in case of power failure. There is a fiber connection between the local ERP server
and the NAS to facilitate faster data access. Finally there is firewall monitoring the T2 WAN
connection to provide some additional security to the local network. The Pontiac location is
very similarly built to the Albany location with the exception that it is a larger network. The
Pontiac location has 45 computers running the same Windows 7 and Ofice 2007 along with
4 printers.
Running a business in an ever forward moving technological world ensuring that a business
is is keeping up with technology has become critical to maintaining and improving business
performance. "The advancement of technology and the changing global business
environment have compelled the transformation of a warehouse" tiKumar et al., 2021, p.
3470). Utilizing enhances tools for tracking warehouse inventory, production and progress,
will move the business towards increased performance and eficiency as data transparency
increases. This increased insight into production and stocks will lead to increased
manufacturing eficiency while also reducing waste and cost through more informed
ordering of materials and supplies. Beyond these changes and advancements, simply
upgrading the equipment that is on site will greatly improve eficiency. Upgrading the
infrastructure to allow for greater data transfer speeds between employee computers and
local storage, means it takes less time to open and save documents saved on the local NAS,
increased backup speeds, less time waiting for calculations to occur and applications to
load. All of these time savings accumulate into increased eficiency and performance. Adding
new cloud based solution into the new IT infrastructure will allow for future growth in
business compute needs, as well as allowing for a tertiary data backup beyond the local and
main data storage locations at the corporate headquarters. This is another example of how
upgrading the infrastructure will allow for the business to become more productive by
taking advantage of additional tools like cloud computing. "Cloud computing information
centers give high extensibility, achievement, and approach to effective limitless computing
capacity to application suppliers" tiNazir et al. 2021, p. 3537)
Recommendations
The recommendation with the most significant impact will be migrating from
100baseTtilEEE 802.3u) to 1000baseT ti IEEE 802.3ab) and properly segmenting the
network. Based on the current state and structure of the network at each location the most
significant data bottleneck. Along with the data throughput there is also significant added
security risks to each network due to how they are structured and unsegmented.
The biggest advantages in migrating to a newer ethernet protocol and associated speed, will
be the improved data throughput. "However, the interconnection of dissimilar LANs and
devices over a high-speed backbone network can create congestion at a destination LAN
tioutput) gateway when more than one device or LAN attempt is made to communicate
simultaneously with the same device or LAN. We address the issue of congestion avoidance
in LANs interconnected by a high-speed backbone" tiHassanein 1997, p. 261). Through
migration to the 1000baseT standard and moving from a 100mbps to a 1000mbps
backbone, the ten fold increase in speed will prevent and or mitigate the majority of the
congestion. In combination with a network restructure to isolate like devices to their own
LAN, this will further prevent the congestion mentioned by Hassanein.
The most significant disadvantage to adopting this standard will be the cost and time
involved with such an upgrade. If building a new network there would not be a significant
difference in cost as most all newer devices have already adopted 1000baseT standard for
network connectivity. When considering International Plastics Inc. it may prove necessary to
not only upgrade and replace all switches, and routers, it may also be necessary to replace
some or all of the workstation computers if they do not have 1000baseT network cards or
purchase cards for each device. Additionally, even though CAT5 cabling is capable of
delivering 1000mbps speeds, depending on the length of the runs and cable degradation
since installation it may be necessary to replace significant amount of the cabling to avoid
loss in connectivity and speed. Finally attributing to the cost will be the need for additional
switches, patch panels, routers and cabling in order to facilitate the segmentation of the
new network infrastructure proposed.
Despite the disadvantage of cost, upgrading the LAN backbone at each site would provide
the most direct and significant impact for business performance. Each location has between
25 and 50 employees utilizing computers and around 25 VOIP phones. Provided an
estimated required bandwidth of 5Mbps per VOIP phone the 100Mbps connection could be
completely saturated if all 25 phones where in use. Although this is unlikely, in combination
with bandwidth needs of the computers and other devices a 100mbps connection is simply
not enough. Through this upgrade, it is expected that employees will have better call quality
leading to less repetition as well as faster access to LAN services such and exchange, and
NAS. All of these small improvements result in significant increases in eficiency and
productivity.
The Albany location has a singular T2 connection to the WAN which provides its connectivity
to the corporate headquarters building. Inside the location there are 20 computers and a
printer wired into a 48 ports patch panel and then a 48 port switch, there is a 24 port switch
which provides connectivity to the manufacturing floor all cabling at this site is CATS. There
is a NAS, and local ERP server at this location to provide local data backup which is protected
by a UPS in case of power failure. There is a fiber connection between the local ERP server
and the NAS to facilitate faster data access. Finally there is firewall monitoring the T2 WAN
connection to provide some additional security to the local network. The Pontiac location is
very similarly built to the Albany location with the exception that it is a larger network. The
Pontiac location has 45 computers running the same Windows 7 and Ofice 2007 along with
4 printers.
Running a business in an ever forward moving technological world ensuring that a business
is is keeping up with technology has become critical to maintaining and improving business
performance. "The advancement of technology and the changing global business
environment have compelled the transformation of a warehouse" tiKumar et al., 2021, p.
3470). Utilizing enhances tools for tracking warehouse inventory, production and progress,
will move the business towards increased performance and eficiency as data transparency
increases. This increased insight into production and stocks will lead to increased
manufacturing eficiency while also reducing waste and cost through more informed
ordering of materials and supplies. Beyond these changes and advancements, simply
upgrading the equipment that is on site will greatly improve eficiency. Upgrading the
infrastructure to allow for greater data transfer speeds between employee computers and
local storage, means it takes less time to open and save documents saved on the local NAS,
increased backup speeds, less time waiting for calculations to occur and applications to
load. All of these time savings accumulate into increased eficiency and performance. Adding
new cloud based solution into the new IT infrastructure will allow for future growth in
business compute needs, as well as allowing for a tertiary data backup beyond the local and
main data storage locations at the corporate headquarters. This is another example of how
upgrading the infrastructure will allow for the business to become more productive by
taking advantage of additional tools like cloud computing. "Cloud computing information
centers give high extensibility, achievement, and approach to effective limitless computing
capacity to application suppliers" tiNazir et al. 2021, p. 3537)
Recommendations
The recommendation with the most significant impact will be migrating from
100baseTtilEEE 802.3u) to 1000baseT ti IEEE 802.3ab) and properly segmenting the
network. Based on the current state and structure of the network at each location the most
significant data bottleneck. Along with the data throughput there is also significant added
security risks to each network due to how they are structured and unsegmented.
The biggest advantages in migrating to a newer ethernet protocol and associated speed, will
be the improved data throughput. "However, the interconnection of dissimilar LANs and
devices over a high-speed backbone network can create congestion at a destination LAN
tioutput) gateway when more than one device or LAN attempt is made to communicate
simultaneously with the same device or LAN. We address the issue of congestion avoidance
in LANs interconnected by a high-speed backbone" tiHassanein 1997, p. 261). Through
migration to the 1000baseT standard and moving from a 100mbps to a 1000mbps
backbone, the ten fold increase in speed will prevent and or mitigate the majority of the
congestion. In combination with a network restructure to isolate like devices to their own
LAN, this will further prevent the congestion mentioned by Hassanein.
The most significant disadvantage to adopting this standard will be the cost and time
involved with such an upgrade. If building a new network there would not be a significant
difference in cost as most all newer devices have already adopted 1000baseT standard for
network connectivity. When considering International Plastics Inc. it may prove necessary to
not only upgrade and replace all switches, and routers, it may also be necessary to replace
some or all of the workstation computers if they do not have 1000baseT network cards or
purchase cards for each device. Additionally, even though CAT5 cabling is capable of
delivering 1000mbps speeds, depending on the length of the runs and cable degradation
since installation it may be necessary to replace significant amount of the cabling to avoid
loss in connectivity and speed. Finally attributing to the cost will be the need for additional
switches, patch panels, routers and cabling in order to facilitate the segmentation of the
new network infrastructure proposed.
Despite the disadvantage of cost, upgrading the LAN backbone at each site would provide
the most direct and significant impact for business performance. Each location has between
25 and 50 employees utilizing computers and around 25 VOIP phones. Provided an
estimated required bandwidth of 5Mbps per VOIP phone the 100Mbps connection could be
completely saturated if all 25 phones where in use. Although this is unlikely, in combination
with bandwidth needs of the computers and other devices a 100mbps connection is simply
not enough. Through this upgrade, it is expected that employees will have better call quality
leading to less repetition as well as faster access to LAN services such and exchange, and
NAS. All of these small improvements result in significant increases in eficiency and
productivity.
The Albany location has a singular T2 connection to the WAN which provides its connectivity
to the corporate headquarters building. Inside the location there are 20 computers and a
printer wired into a 48 ports patch panel and then a 48 port switch, there is a 24 port switch
which provides connectivity to the manufacturing floor all cabling at this site is CATS. There
is a NAS, and local ERP server at this location to provide local data backup which is protected
by a UPS in case of power failure. There is a fiber connection between the local ERP server
and the NAS to facilitate faster data access. Finally there is firewall monitoring the T2 WAN
connection to provide some additional security to the local network. The Pontiac location is
very similarly built to the Albany location with the exception that it is a larger network. The
Pontiac location has 45 computers running the same Windows 7 and Ofice 2007 along with
4 printers.
Running a business in an ever forward moving technological world ensuring that a business
is is keeping up with technology has become critical to maintaining and improving business
performance. "The advancement of technology and the changing global business
environment have compelled the transformation of a warehouse" tiKumar et al., 2021, p.
3470). Utilizing enhances tools for tracking warehouse inventory, production and progress,
will move the business towards increased performance and eficiency as data transparency
increases. This increased insight into production and stocks will lead to increased
manufacturing eficiency while also reducing waste and cost through more informed
ordering of materials and supplies. Beyond these changes and advancements, simply
upgrading the equipment that is on site will greatly improve eficiency. Upgrading the
infrastructure to allow for greater data transfer speeds between employee computers and
local storage, means it takes less time to open and save documents saved on the local NAS,
increased backup speeds, less time waiting for calculations to occur and applications to
load. All of these time savings accumulate into increased eficiency and performance. Adding
new cloud based solution into the new IT infrastructure will allow for future growth in
business compute needs, as well as allowing for a tertiary data backup beyond the local and
main data storage locations at the corporate headquarters. This is another example of how
upgrading the infrastructure will allow for the business to become more productive by
taking advantage of additional tools like cloud computing. "Cloud computing information
centers give high extensibility, achievement, and approach to effective limitless computing
capacity to application suppliers" tiNazir et al. 2021, p. 3537)
Recommendations
The recommendation with the most significant impact will be migrating from
100baseTtilEEE 802.3u) to 1000baseT ti IEEE 802.3ab) and properly segmenting the
network. Based on the current state and structure of the network at each location the most
significant data bottleneck. Along with the data throughput there is also significant added
security risks to each network due to how they are structured and unsegmented.
The biggest advantages in migrating to a newer ethernet protocol and associated speed, will
be the improved data throughput. "However, the interconnection of dissimilar LANs and
devices over a high-speed backbone network can create congestion at a destination LAN
tioutput) gateway when more than one device or LAN attempt is made to communicate
simultaneously with the same device or LAN. We address the issue of congestion avoidance
in LANs interconnected by a high-speed backbone" tiHassanein 1997, p. 261). Through
migration to the 1000baseT standard and moving from a 100mbps to a 1000mbps
backbone, the ten fold increase in speed will prevent and or mitigate the majority of the
congestion. In combination with a network restructure to isolate like devices to their own
LAN, this will further prevent the congestion mentioned by Hassanein.
The most significant disadvantage to adopting this standard will be the cost and time
involved with such an upgrade. If building a new network there would not be a significant
difference in cost as most all newer devices have already adopted 1000baseT standard for
network connectivity. When considering International Plastics Inc. it may prove necessary to
not only upgrade and replace all switches, and routers, it may also be necessary to replace
some or all of the workstation computers if they do not have 1000baseT network cards or
purchase cards for each device. Additionally, even though CAT5 cabling is capable of
delivering 1000mbps speeds, depending on the length of the runs and cable degradation
since installation it may be necessary to replace significant amount of the cabling to avoid
loss in connectivity and speed. Finally attributing to the cost will be the need for additional
switches, patch panels, routers and cabling in order to facilitate the segmentation of the
new network infrastructure proposed.
Despite the disadvantage of cost, upgrading the LAN backbone at each site would provide
the most direct and significant impact for business performance. Each location has between
25 and 50 employees utilizing computers and around 25 VOIP phones. Provided an
estimated required bandwidth of 5Mbps per VOIP phone the 100Mbps connection could be
completely saturated if all 25 phones where in use. Although this is unlikely, in combination
with bandwidth needs of the computers and other devices a 100mbps connection is simply
not enough. Through this upgrade, it is expected that employees will have better call quality
leading to less repetition as well as faster access to LAN services such and exchange, and
NAS. All of these small improvements result in significant increases in eficiency and
productivity.
The Albany location has a singular T2 connection to the WAN which provides its connectivity
to the corporate headquarters building. Inside the location there are 20 computers and a
printer wired into a 48 ports patch panel and then a 48 port switch, there is a 24 port switch
which provides connectivity to the manufacturing floor all cabling at this site is CATS. There
is a NAS, and local ERP server at this location to provide local data backup which is protected
by a UPS in case of power failure. There is a fiber connection between the local ERP server
and the NAS to facilitate faster data access. Finally there is firewall monitoring the T2 WAN
connection to provide some additional security to the local network. The Pontiac location is
very similarly built to the Albany location with the exception that it is a larger network. The
Pontiac location has 45 computers running the same Windows 7 and Ofice 2007 along with
4 printers.
Running a business in an ever forward moving technological world ensuring that a business
is is keeping up with technology has become critical to maintaining and improving business
performance. "The advancement of technology and the changing global business
environment have compelled the transformation of a warehouse" tiKumar et al., 2021, p.
3470). Utilizing enhances tools for tracking warehouse inventory, production and progress,
will move the business towards increased performance and eficiency as data transparency
increases. This increased insight into production and stocks will lead to increased
manufacturing eficiency while also reducing waste and cost through more informed
ordering of materials and supplies. Beyond these changes and advancements, simply
upgrading the equipment that is on site will greatly improve eficiency. Upgrading the
infrastructure to allow for greater data transfer speeds between employee computers and
local storage, means it takes less time to open and save documents saved on the local NAS,
increased backup speeds, less time waiting for calculations to occur and applications to
load. All of these time savings accumulate into increased eficiency and performance. Adding
new cloud based solution into the new IT infrastructure will allow for future growth in
business compute needs, as well as allowing for a tertiary data backup beyond the local and
main data storage locations at the corporate headquarters. This is another example of how
upgrading the infrastructure will allow for the business to become more productive by
taking advantage of additional tools like cloud computing. "Cloud computing information
centers give high extensibility, achievement, and approach to effective limitless computing
capacity to application suppliers" tiNazir et al. 2021, p. 3537)
Recommendations
The recommendation with the most significant impact will be migrating from
100baseTtilEEE 802.3u) to 1000baseT ti IEEE 802.3ab) and properly segmenting the
network. Based on the current state and structure of the network at each location the most
significant data bottleneck. Along with the data throughput there is also significant added
security risks to each network due to how they are structured and unsegmented.
The biggest advantages in migrating to a newer ethernet protocol and associated speed, will
be the improved data throughput. "However, the interconnection of dissimilar LANs and
devices over a high-speed backbone network can create congestion at a destination LAN
tioutput) gateway when more than one device or LAN attempt is made to communicate
simultaneously with the same device or LAN. We address the issue of congestion avoidance
in LANs interconnected by a high-speed backbone" tiHassanein 1997, p. 261). Through
migration to the 1000baseT standard and moving from a 100mbps to a 1000mbps
backbone, the ten fold increase in speed will prevent and or mitigate the majority of the
congestion. In combination with a network restructure to isolate like devices to their own
LAN, this will further prevent the congestion mentioned by Hassanein.
The most significant disadvantage to adopting this standard will be the cost and time
involved with such an upgrade. If building a new network there would not be a significant
difference in cost as most all newer devices have already adopted 1000baseT standard for
network connectivity. When considering International Plastics Inc. it may prove necessary to
not only upgrade and replace all switches, and routers, it may also be necessary to replace
some or all of the workstation computers if they do not have 1000baseT network cards or
purchase cards for each device. Additionally, even though CAT5 cabling is capable of
delivering 1000mbps speeds, depending on the length of the runs and cable degradation
since installation it may be necessary to replace significant amount of the cabling to avoid
loss in connectivity and speed. Finally attributing to the cost will be the need for additional
switches, patch panels, routers and cabling in order to facilitate the segmentation of the
new network infrastructure proposed.
Despite the disadvantage of cost, upgrading the LAN backbone at each site would provide
the most direct and significant impact for business performance. Each location has between
25 and 50 employees utilizing computers and around 25 VOIP phones. Provided an
estimated required bandwidth of 5Mbps per VOIP phone the 100Mbps connection could be
completely saturated if all 25 phones where in use. Although this is unlikely, in combination
with bandwidth needs of the computers and other devices a 100mbps connection is simply
not enough. Through this upgrade, it is expected that employees will have better call quality
leading to less repetition as well as faster access to LAN services such and exchange, and
NAS. All of these small improvements result in significant increases in eficiency and
productivity.
The Albany location has a singular T2 connection to the WAN which provides its connectivity
to the corporate headquarters building. Inside the location there are 20 computers and a
printer wired into a 48 ports patch panel and then a 48 port switch, there is a 24 port switch
which provides connectivity to the manufacturing floor all cabling at this site is CATS. There
is a NAS, and local ERP server at this location to provide local data backup which is protected
by a UPS in case of power failure. There is a fiber connection between the local ERP server
and the NAS to facilitate faster data access. Finally there is firewall monitoring the T2 WAN
connection to provide some additional security to the local network. The Pontiac location is
very similarly built to the Albany location with the exception that it is a larger network. The
Pontiac location has 45 computers running the same Windows 7 and Ofice 2007 along with
4 printers.
Running a business in an ever forward moving technological world ensuring that a business
is is keeping up with technology has become critical to maintaining and improving business
performance. "The advancement of technology and the changing global business
environment have compelled the transformation of a warehouse" tiKumar et al., 2021, p.
3470). Utilizing enhances tools for tracking warehouse inventory, production and progress,
will move the business towards increased performance and eficiency as data transparency
increases. This increased insight into production and stocks will lead to increased
manufacturing eficiency while also reducing waste and cost through more informed
ordering of materials and supplies. Beyond these changes and advancements, simply
upgrading the equipment that is on site will greatly improve eficiency. Upgrading the
infrastructure to allow for greater data transfer speeds between employee computers and
local storage, means it takes less time to open and save documents saved on the local NAS,
increased backup speeds, less time waiting for calculations to occur and applications to
load. All of these time savings accumulate into increased eficiency and performance. Adding
new cloud based solution into the new IT infrastructure will allow for future growth in
business compute needs, as well as allowing for a tertiary data backup beyond the local and
main data storage locations at the corporate headquarters. This is another example of how
upgrading the infrastructure will allow for the business to become more productive by
taking advantage of additional tools like cloud computing. "Cloud computing information
centers give high extensibility, achievement, and approach to effective limitless computing
capacity to application suppliers" tiNazir et al. 2021, p. 3537)
Recommendations
The recommendation with the most significant impact will be migrating from
100baseTtilEEE 802.3u) to 1000baseT ti IEEE 802.3ab) and properly segmenting the
network. Based on the current state and structure of the network at each location the most
significant data bottleneck. Along with the data throughput there is also significant added
security risks to each network due to how they are structured and unsegmented.
The biggest advantages in migrating to a newer ethernet protocol and associated speed, will
be the improved data throughput. "However, the interconnection of dissimilar LANs and
devices over a high-speed backbone network can create congestion at a destination LAN
tioutput) gateway when more than one device or LAN attempt is made to communicate
simultaneously with the same device or LAN. We address the issue of congestion avoidance
in LANs interconnected by a high-speed backbone" tiHassanein 1997, p. 261). Through
migration to the 1000baseT standard and moving from a 100mbps to a 1000mbps
backbone, the ten fold increase in speed will prevent and or mitigate the majority of the
congestion. In combination with a network restructure to isolate like devices to their own
LAN, this will further prevent the congestion mentioned by Hassanein.
The most significant disadvantage to adopting this standard will be the cost and time
involved with such an upgrade. If building a new network there would not be a significant
difference in cost as most all newer devices have already adopted 1000baseT standard for
network connectivity. When considering International Plastics Inc. it may prove necessary to
not only upgrade and replace all switches, and routers, it may also be necessary to replace
some or all of the workstation computers if they do not have 1000baseT network cards or
purchase cards for each device. Additionally, even though CAT5 cabling is capable of
delivering 1000mbps speeds, depending on the length of the runs and cable degradation
since installation it may be necessary to replace significant amount of the cabling to avoid
loss in connectivity and speed. Finally attributing to the cost will be the need for additional
switches, patch panels, routers and cabling in order to facilitate the segmentation of the
new network infrastructure proposed.
Despite the disadvantage of cost, upgrading the LAN backbone at each site would provide
the most direct and significant impact for business performance. Each location has between
25 and 50 employees utilizing computers and around 25 VOIP phones. Provided an
estimated required bandwidth of 5Mbps per VOIP phone the 100Mbps connection could be
completely saturated if all 25 phones where in use. Although this is unlikely, in combination
with bandwidth needs of the computers and other devices a 100mbps connection is simply
not enough. Through this upgrade, it is expected that employees will have better call quality
leading to less repetition as well as faster access to LAN services such and exchange, and
NAS. All of these small improvements result in significant increases in eficiency and
productivity.
The Albany location has a singular T2 connection to the WAN which provides its connectivity
to the corporate headquarters building. Inside the location there are 20 computers and a
printer wired into a 48 ports patch panel and then a 48 port switch, there is a 24 port switch
which provides connectivity to the manufacturing floor all cabling at this site is CATS. There
is a NAS, and local ERP server at this location to provide local data backup which is protected
by a UPS in case of power failure. There is a fiber connection between the local ERP server
and the NAS to facilitate faster data access. Finally there is firewall monitoring the T2 WAN
connection to provide some additional security to the local network. The Pontiac location is
very similarly built to the Albany location with the exception that it is a larger network. The
Pontiac location has 45 computers running the same Windows 7 and Ofice 2007 along with
4 printers.
Running a business in an ever forward moving technological world ensuring that a business
is is keeping up with technology has become critical to maintaining and improving business
performance. "The advancement of technology and the changing global business
environment have compelled the transformation of a warehouse" tiKumar et al., 2021, p.
3470). Utilizing enhances tools for tracking warehouse inventory, production and progress,
will move the business towards increased performance and eficiency as data transparency
increases. This increased insight into production and stocks will lead to increased
manufacturing eficiency while also reducing waste and cost through more informed
ordering of materials and supplies. Beyond these changes and advancements, simply
upgrading the equipment that is on site will greatly improve eficiency. Upgrading the
infrastructure to allow for greater data transfer speeds between employee computers and
local storage, means it takes less time to open and save documents saved on the local NAS,
increased backup speeds, less time waiting for calculations to occur and applications to
load. All of these time savings accumulate into increased eficiency and performance. Adding
new cloud based solution into the new IT infrastructure will allow for future growth in
business compute needs, as well as allowing for a tertiary data backup beyond the local and
main data storage locations at the corporate headquarters. This is another example of how
upgrading the infrastructure will allow for the business to become more productive by
taking advantage of additional tools like cloud computing. "Cloud computing information
centers give high extensibility, achievement, and approach to effective limitless computing
capacity to application suppliers" tiNazir et al. 2021, p. 3537)
Recommendations
The recommendation with the most significant impact will be migrating from
100baseTtilEEE 802.3u) to 1000baseT ti IEEE 802.3ab) and properly segmenting the
network. Based on the current state and structure of the network at each location the most
significant data bottleneck. Along with the data throughput there is also significant added
security risks to each network due to how they are structured and unsegmented.
The biggest advantages in migrating to a newer ethernet protocol and associated speed, will
be the improved data throughput. "However, the interconnection of dissimilar LANs and
devices over a high-speed backbone network can create congestion at a destination LAN
tioutput) gateway when more than one device or LAN attempt is made to communicate
simultaneously with the same device or LAN. We address the issue of congestion avoidance
in LANs interconnected by a high-speed backbone" tiHassanein 1997, p. 261). Through
migration to the 1000baseT standard and moving from a 100mbps to a 1000mbps
backbone, the ten fold increase in speed will prevent and or mitigate the majority of the
congestion. In combination with a network restructure to isolate like devices to their own
LAN, this will further prevent the congestion mentioned by Hassanein.
The most significant disadvantage to adopting this standard will be the cost and time
involved with such an upgrade. If building a new network there would not be a significant
difference in cost as most all newer devices have already adopted 1000baseT standard for
network connectivity. When considering International Plastics Inc. it may prove necessary to
not only upgrade and replace all switches, and routers, it may also be necessary to replace
some or all of the workstation computers if they do not have 1000baseT network cards or
purchase cards for each device. Additionally, even though CAT5 cabling is capable of
delivering 1000mbps speeds, depending on the length of the runs and cable degradation
since installation it may be necessary to replace significant amount of the cabling to avoid
loss in connectivity and speed. Finally attributing to the cost will be the need for additional
switches, patch panels, routers and cabling in order to facilitate the segmentation of the
new network infrastructure proposed.
Despite the disadvantage of cost, upgrading the LAN backbone at each site would provide
the most direct and significant impact for business performance. Each location has between
25 and 50 employees utilizing computers and around 25 VOIP phones. Provided an
estimated required bandwidth of 5Mbps per VOIP phone the 100Mbps connection could be
completely saturated if all 25 phones where in use. Although this is unlikely, in combination
with bandwidth needs of the computers and other devices a 100mbps connection is simply
not enough. Through this upgrade, it is expected that employees will have better call quality
leading to less repetition as well as faster access to LAN services such and exchange, and
NAS. All of these small improvements result in significant increases in eficiency and
productivity.
The Albany location has a singular T2 connection to the WAN which provides its connectivity
to the corporate headquarters building. Inside the location there are 20 computers and a
printer wired into a 48 ports patch panel and then a 48 port switch, there is a 24 port switch
which provides connectivity to the manufacturing floor all cabling at this site is CATS. There
is a NAS, and local ERP server at this location to provide local data backup which is protected
by a UPS in case of power failure. There is a fiber connection between the local ERP server
and the NAS to facilitate faster data access. Finally there is firewall monitoring the T2 WAN
connection to provide some additional security to the local network. The Pontiac location is
very similarly built to the Albany location with the exception that it is a larger network. The
Pontiac location has 45 computers running the same Windows 7 and Ofice 2007 along with
4 printers.
Running a business in an ever forward moving technological world ensuring that a business
is is keeping up with technology has become critical to maintaining and improving business
performance. "The advancement of technology and the changing global business
environment have compelled the transformation of a warehouse" tiKumar et al., 2021, p.
3470). Utilizing enhances tools for tracking warehouse inventory, production and progress,
will move the business towards increased performance and eficiency as data transparency
increases. This increased insight into production and stocks will lead to increased
manufacturing eficiency while also reducing waste and cost through more informed
ordering of materials and supplies. Beyond these changes and advancements, simply
upgrading the equipment that is on site will greatly improve eficiency. Upgrading the
infrastructure to allow for greater data transfer speeds between employee computers and
local storage, means it takes less time to open and save documents saved on the local NAS,
increased backup speeds, less time waiting for calculations to occur and applications to
load. All of these time savings accumulate into increased eficiency and performance. Adding
new cloud based solution into the new IT infrastructure will allow for future growth in
business compute needs, as well as allowing for a tertiary data backup beyond the local and
main data storage locations at the corporate headquarters. This is another example of how
upgrading the infrastructure will allow for the business to become more productive by
taking advantage of additional tools like cloud computing. "Cloud computing information
centers give high extensibility, achievement, and approach to effective limitless computing
capacity to application suppliers" tiNazir et al. 2021, p. 3537)
Recommendations
The recommendation with the most significant impact will be migrating from
100baseTtilEEE 802.3u) to 1000baseT ti IEEE 802.3ab) and properly segmenting the
network. Based on the current state and structure of the network at each location the most
significant data bottleneck. Along with the data throughput there is also significant added
security risks to each network due to how they are structured and unsegmented.
The biggest advantages in migrating to a newer ethernet protocol and associated speed, will
be the improved data throughput. "However, the interconnection of dissimilar LANs and
devices over a high-speed backbone network can create congestion at a destination LAN
tioutput) gateway when more than one device or LAN attempt is made to communicate
simultaneously with the same device or LAN. We address the issue of congestion avoidance
in LANs interconnected by a high-speed backbone" tiHassanein 1997, p. 261). Through
migration to the 1000baseT standard and moving from a 100mbps to a 1000mbps
backbone, the ten fold increase in speed will prevent and or mitigate the majority of the
congestion. In combination with a network restructure to isolate like devices to their own
LAN, this will further prevent the congestion mentioned by Hassanein.
The most significant disadvantage to adopting this standard will be the cost and time
involved with such an upgrade. If building a new network there would not be a significant
difference in cost as most all newer devices have already adopted 1000baseT standard for
network connectivity. When considering International Plastics Inc. it may prove necessary to
not only upgrade and replace all switches, and routers, it may also be necessary to replace
some or all of the workstation computers if they do not have 1000baseT network cards or
purchase cards for each device. Additionally, even though CAT5 cabling is capable of
delivering 1000mbps speeds, depending on the length of the runs and cable degradation
since installation it may be necessary to replace significant amount of the cabling to avoid
loss in connectivity and speed. Finally attributing to the cost will be the need for additional
switches, patch panels, routers and cabling in order to facilitate the segmentation of the
new network infrastructure proposed.
Despite the disadvantage of cost, upgrading the LAN backbone at each site would provide
the most direct and significant impact for business performance. Each location has between
25 and 50 employees utilizing computers and around 25 VOIP phones. Provided an
estimated required bandwidth of 5Mbps per VOIP phone the 100Mbps connection could be
completely saturated if all 25 phones where in use. Although this is unlikely, in combination
with bandwidth needs of the computers and other devices a 100mbps connection is simply
not enough. Through this upgrade, it is expected that employees will have better call quality
leading to less repetition as well as faster access to LAN services such and exchange, and
NAS. All of these small improvements result in significant increases in eficiency and
productivity.
The Albany location has a singular T2 connection to the WAN which provides its connectivity
to the corporate headquarters building. Inside the location there are 20 computers and a
printer wired into a 48 ports patch panel and then a 48 port switch, there is a 24 port switch
which provides connectivity to the manufacturing floor all cabling at this site is CATS. There
is a NAS, and local ERP server at this location to provide local data backup which is protected
by a UPS in case of power failure. There is a fiber connection between the local ERP server
and the NAS to facilitate faster data access. Finally there is firewall monitoring the T2 WAN
connection to provide some additional security to the local network. The Pontiac location is
very similarly built to the Albany location with the exception that it is a larger network. The
Pontiac location has 45 computers running the same Windows 7 and Ofice 2007 along with
4 printers.
Running a business in an ever forward moving technological world ensuring that a business
is is keeping up with technology has become critical to maintaining and improving business
performance. "The advancement of technology and the changing global business
environment have compelled the transformation of a warehouse" tiKumar et al., 2021, p.
3470). Utilizing enhances tools for tracking warehouse inventory, production and progress,
will move the business towards increased performance and eficiency as data transparency
increases. This increased insight into production and stocks will lead to increased
manufacturing eficiency while also reducing waste and cost through more informed
ordering of materials and supplies. Beyond these changes and advancements, simply
upgrading the equipment that is on site will greatly improve eficiency. Upgrading the
infrastructure to allow for greater data transfer speeds between employee computers and
local storage, means it takes less time to open and save documents saved on the local NAS,
increased backup speeds, less time waiting for calculations to occur and applications to
load. All of these time savings accumulate into increased eficiency and performance. Adding
new cloud based solution into the new IT infrastructure will allow for future growth in
business compute needs, as well as allowing for a tertiary data backup beyond the local and
main data storage locations at the corporate headquarters. This is another example of how
upgrading the infrastructure will allow for the business to become more productive by
taking advantage of additional tools like cloud computing. "Cloud computing information
centers give high extensibility, achievement, and approach to effective limitless computing
capacity to application suppliers" tiNazir et al. 2021, p. 3537)
Recommendations
The recommendation with the most significant impact will be migrating from
100baseTtilEEE 802.3u) to 1000baseT ti IEEE 802.3ab) and properly segmenting the
network. Based on the current state and structure of the network at each location the most
significant data bottleneck. Along with the data throughput there is also significant added
security risks to each network due to how they are structured and unsegmented.
The biggest advantages in migrating to a newer ethernet protocol and associated speed, will
be the improved data throughput. "However, the interconnection of dissimilar LANs and
devices over a high-speed backbone network can create congestion at a destination LAN
tioutput) gateway when more than one device or LAN attempt is made to communicate
simultaneously with the same device or LAN. We address the issue of congestion avoidance
in LANs interconnected by a high-speed backbone" tiHassanein 1997, p. 261). Through
migration to the 1000baseT standard and moving from a 100mbps to a 1000mbps
backbone, the ten fold increase in speed will prevent and or mitigate the majority of the
congestion. In combination with a network restructure to isolate like devices to their own
LAN, this will further prevent the congestion mentioned by Hassanein.
The most significant disadvantage to adopting this standard will be the cost and time
involved with such an upgrade. If building a new network there would not be a significant
difference in cost as most all newer devices have already adopted 1000baseT standard for
network connectivity. When considering International Plastics Inc. it may prove necessary to
not only upgrade and replace all switches, and routers, it may also be necessary to replace
some or all of the workstation computers if they do not have 1000baseT network cards or
purchase cards for each device. Additionally, even though CAT5 cabling is capable of
delivering 1000mbps speeds, depending on the length of the runs and cable degradation
since installation it may be necessary to replace significant amount of the cabling to avoid
loss in connectivity and speed. Finally attributing to the cost will be the need for additional
switches, patch panels, routers and cabling in order to facilitate the segmentation of the
new network infrastructure proposed.
Despite the disadvantage of cost, upgrading the LAN backbone at each site would provide
the most direct and significant impact for business performance. Each location has between
25 and 50 employees utilizing computers and around 25 VOIP phones. Provided an
estimated required bandwidth of 5Mbps per VOIP phone the 100Mbps connection could be
completely saturated if all 25 phones where in use. Although this is unlikely, in combination
with bandwidth needs of the computers and other devices a 100mbps connection is simply
not enough. Through this upgrade, it is expected that employees will have better call quality
leading to less repetition as well as faster access to LAN services such and exchange, and
NAS. All of these small improvements result in significant increases in eficiency and
productivity.
The Albany location has a singular T2 connection to the WAN which provides its connectivity
to the corporate headquarters building. Inside the location there are 20 computers and a
printer wired into a 48 ports patch panel and then a 48 port switch, there is a 24 port switch
which provides connectivity to the manufacturing floor all cabling at this site is CATS. There
is a NAS, and local ERP server at this location to provide local data backup which is protected
by a UPS in case of power failure. There is a fiber connection between the local ERP server
and the NAS to facilitate faster data access. Finally there is firewall monitoring the T2 WAN
connection to provide some additional security to the local network. The Pontiac location is
very similarly built to the Albany location with the exception that it is a larger network. The
Pontiac location has 45 computers running the same Windows 7 and Ofice 2007 along with
4 printers.
Running a business in an ever forward moving technological world ensuring that a business
is is keeping up with technology has become critical to maintaining and improving business
performance. "The advancement of technology and the changing global business
environment have compelled the transformation of a warehouse" tiKumar et al., 2021, p.
3470). Utilizing enhances tools for tracking warehouse inventory, production and progress,
will move the business towards increased performance and eficiency as data transparency
increases. This increased insight into production and stocks will lead to increased
manufacturing eficiency while also reducing waste and cost through more informed
ordering of materials and supplies. Beyond these changes and advancements, simply
upgrading the equipment that is on site will greatly improve eficiency. Upgrading the
infrastructure to allow for greater data transfer speeds between employee computers and
local storage, means it takes less time to open and save documents saved on the local NAS,
increased backup speeds, less time waiting for calculations to occur and applications to
load. All of these time savings accumulate into increased eficiency and performance. Adding
new cloud based solution into the new IT infrastructure will allow for future growth in
business compute needs, as well as allowing for a tertiary data backup beyond the local and
main data storage locations at the corporate headquarters. This is another example of how
upgrading the infrastructure will allow for the business to become more productive by
taking advantage of additional tools like cloud computing. "Cloud computing information
centers give high extensibility, achievement, and approach to effective limitless computing
capacity to application suppliers" tiNazir et al. 2021, p. 3537)
Recommendations
The recommendation with the most significant impact will be migrating from
100baseTtilEEE 802.3u) to 1000baseT ti IEEE 802.3ab) and properly segmenting the
network. Based on the current state and structure of the network at each location the most
significant data bottleneck. Along with the data throughput there is also significant added
security risks to each network due to how they are structured and unsegmented.
The biggest advantages in migrating to a newer ethernet protocol and associated speed, will
be the improved data throughput. "However, the interconnection of dissimilar LANs and
devices over a high-speed backbone network can create congestion at a destination LAN
tioutput) gateway when more than one device or LAN attempt is made to communicate
simultaneously with the same device or LAN. We address the issue of congestion avoidance
in LANs interconnected by a high-speed backbone" tiHassanein 1997, p. 261). Through
migration to the 1000baseT standard and moving from a 100mbps to a 1000mbps
backbone, the ten fold increase in speed will prevent and or mitigate the majority of the
congestion. In combination with a network restructure to isolate like devices to their own
LAN, this will further prevent the congestion mentioned by Hassanein.
The most significant disadvantage to adopting this standard will be the cost and time
involved with such an upgrade. If building a new network there would not be a significant
difference in cost as most all newer devices have already adopted 1000baseT standard for
network connectivity. When considering International Plastics Inc. it may prove necessary to
not only upgrade and replace all switches, and routers, it may also be necessary to replace
some or all of the workstation computers if they do not have 1000baseT network cards or
purchase cards for each device. Additionally, even though CAT5 cabling is capable of
delivering 1000mbps speeds, depending on the length of the runs and cable degradation
since installation it may be necessary to replace significant amount of the cabling to avoid
loss in connectivity and speed. Finally attributing to the cost will be the need for additional
switches, patch panels, routers and cabling in order to facilitate the segmentation of the
new network infrastructure proposed.
Despite the disadvantage of cost, upgrading the LAN backbone at each site would provide
the most direct and significant impact for business performance. Each location has between
25 and 50 employees utilizing computers and around 25 VOIP phones. Provided an
estimated required bandwidth of 5Mbps per VOIP phone the 100Mbps connection could be
completely saturated if all 25 phones where in use. Although this is unlikely, in combination
with bandwidth needs of the computers and other devices a 100mbps connection is simply
not enough. Through this upgrade, it is expected that employees will have better call quality
leading to less repetition as well as faster access to LAN services such and exchange, and
NAS. All of these small improvements result in significant increases in eficiency and
productivity.
The Albany location has a singular T2 connection to the WAN which provides its connectivity
to the corporate headquarters building. Inside the location there are 20 computers and a
printer wired into a 48 ports patch panel and then a 48 port switch, there is a 24 port switch
which provides connectivity to the manufacturing floor all cabling at this site is CATS. There
is a NAS, and local ERP server at this location to provide local data backup which is protected
by a UPS in case of power failure. There is a fiber connection between the local ERP server
and the NAS to facilitate faster data access. Finally there is firewall monitoring the T2 WAN
connection to provide some additional security to the local network. The Pontiac location is
very similarly built to the Albany location with the exception that it is a larger network. The
Pontiac location has 45 computers running the same Windows 7 and Ofice 2007 along with
4 printers.
Running a business in an ever forward moving technological world ensuring that a business
is is keeping up with technology has become critical to maintaining and improving business
performance. "The advancement of technology and the changing global business
environment have compelled the transformation of a warehouse" tiKumar et al., 2021, p.
3470). Utilizing enhances tools for tracking warehouse inventory, production and progress,
will move the business towards increased performance and eficiency as data transparency
increases. This increased insight into production and stocks will lead to increased
manufacturing eficiency while also reducing waste and cost through more informed
ordering of materials and supplies. Beyond these changes and advancements, simply
upgrading the equipment that is on site will greatly improve eficiency. Upgrading the
infrastructure to allow for greater data transfer speeds between employee computers and
local storage, means it takes less time to open and save documents saved on the local NAS,
increased backup speeds, less time waiting for calculations to occur and applications to
load. All of these time savings accumulate into increased eficiency and performance. Adding
new cloud based solution into the new IT infrastructure will allow for future growth in
business compute needs, as well as allowing for a tertiary data backup beyond the local and
main data storage locations at the corporate headquarters. This is another example of how
upgrading the infrastructure will allow for the business to become more productive by
taking advantage of additional tools like cloud computing. "Cloud computing information
centers give high extensibility, achievement, and approach to effective limitless computing
capacity to application suppliers" tiNazir et al. 2021, p. 3537)
Recommendations
The recommendation with the most significant impact will be migrating from
100baseTtilEEE 802.3u) to 1000baseT ti IEEE 802.3ab) and properly segmenting the
network. Based on the current state and structure of the network at each location the most
significant data bottleneck. Along with the data throughput there is also significant added
security risks to each network due to how they are structured and unsegmented.
The biggest advantages in migrating to a newer ethernet protocol and associated speed, will
be the improved data throughput. "However, the interconnection of dissimilar LANs and
devices over a high-speed backbone network can create congestion at a destination LAN
tioutput) gateway when more than one device or LAN attempt is made to communicate
simultaneously with the same device or LAN. We address the issue of congestion avoidance
in LANs interconnected by a high-speed backbone" tiHassanein 1997, p. 261). Through
migration to the 1000baseT standard and moving from a 100mbps to a 1000mbps
backbone, the ten fold increase in speed will prevent and or mitigate the majority of the
congestion. In combination with a network restructure to isolate like devices to their own
LAN, this will further prevent the congestion mentioned by Hassanein.
The most significant disadvantage to adopting this standard will be the cost and time
involved with such an upgrade. If building a new network there would not be a significant
difference in cost as most all newer devices have already adopted 1000baseT standard for
network connectivity. When considering International Plastics Inc. it may prove necessary to
not only upgrade and replace all switches, and routers, it may also be necessary to replace
some or all of the workstation computers if they do not have 1000baseT network cards or
purchase cards for each device. Additionally, even though CAT5 cabling is capable of
delivering 1000mbps speeds, depending on the length of the runs and cable degradation
since installation it may be necessary to replace significant amount of the cabling to avoid
loss in connectivity and speed. Finally attributing to the cost will be the need for additional
switches, patch panels, routers and cabling in order to facilitate the segmentation of the
new network infrastructure proposed.
Despite the disadvantage of cost, upgrading the LAN backbone at each site would provide
the most direct and significant impact for business performance. Each location has between
25 and 50 employees utilizing computers and around 25 VOIP phones. Provided an
estimated required bandwidth of 5Mbps per VOIP phone the 100Mbps connection could be
completely saturated if all 25 phones where in use. Although this is unlikely, in combination
with bandwidth needs of the computers and other devices a 100mbps connection is simply
not enough. Through this upgrade, it is expected that employees will have better call quality
leading to less repetition as well as faster access to LAN services such and exchange, and
NAS. All of these small improvements result in significant increases in eficiency and
productivity.
The Albany location has a singular T2 connection to the WAN which provides its connectivity
to the corporate headquarters building. Inside the location there are 20 computers and a
printer wired into a 48 ports patch panel and then a 48 port switch, there is a 24 port switch
which provides connectivity to the manufacturing floor all cabling at this site is CATS. There
is a NAS, and local ERP server at this location to provide local data backup which is protected
by a UPS in case of power failure. There is a fiber connection between the local ERP server
and the NAS to facilitate faster data access. Finally there is firewall monitoring the T2 WAN
connection to provide some additional security to the local network. The Pontiac location is
very similarly built to the Albany location with the exception that it is a larger network. The
Pontiac location has 45 computers running the same Windows 7 and Ofice 2007 along with
4 printers.
Running a business in an ever forward moving technological world ensuring that a business
is is keeping up with technology has become critical to maintaining and improving business
performance. "The advancement of technology and the changing global business
environment have compelled the transformation of a warehouse" tiKumar et al., 2021, p.
3470). Utilizing enhances tools for tracking warehouse inventory, production and progress,
will move the business towards increased performance and eficiency as data transparency
increases. This increased insight into production and stocks will lead to increased
manufacturing eficiency while also reducing waste and cost through more informed
ordering of materials and supplies. Beyond these changes and advancements, simply
upgrading the equipment that is on site will greatly improve eficiency. Upgrading the
infrastructure to allow for greater data transfer speeds between employee computers and
local storage, means it takes less time to open and save documents saved on the local NAS,
increased backup speeds, less time waiting for calculations to occur and applications to
load. All of these time savings accumulate into increased eficiency and performance. Adding
new cloud based solution into the new IT infrastructure will allow for future growth in
business compute needs, as well as allowing for a tertiary data backup beyond the local and
main data storage locations at the corporate headquarters. This is another example of how
upgrading the infrastructure will allow for the business to become more productive by
taking advantage of additional tools like cloud computing. "Cloud computing information
centers give high extensibility, achievement, and approach to effective limitless computing
capacity to application suppliers" tiNazir et al. 2021, p. 3537)
Recommendations
The recommendation with the most significant impact will be migrating from
100baseTtilEEE 802.3u) to 1000baseT ti IEEE 802.3ab) and properly segmenting the
network. Based on the current state and structure of the network at each location the most
significant data bottleneck. Along with the data throughput there is also significant added
security risks to each network due to how they are structured and unsegmented.
The biggest advantages in migrating to a newer ethernet protocol and associated speed, will
be the improved data throughput. "However, the interconnection of dissimilar LANs and
devices over a high-speed backbone network can create congestion at a destination LAN
tioutput) gateway when more than one device or LAN attempt is made to communicate
simultaneously with the same device or LAN. We address the issue of congestion avoidance
in LANs interconnected by a high-speed backbone" tiHassanein 1997, p. 261). Through
migration to the 1000baseT standard and moving from a 100mbps to a 1000mbps
backbone, the ten fold increase in speed will prevent and or mitigate the majority of the
congestion. In combination with a network restructure to isolate like devices to their own
LAN, this will further prevent the congestion mentioned by Hassanein.
The most significant disadvantage to adopting this standard will be the cost and time
involved with such an upgrade. If building a new network there would not be a significant
difference in cost as most all newer devices have already adopted 1000baseT standard for
network connectivity. When considering International Plastics Inc. it may prove necessary to
not only upgrade and replace all switches, and routers, it may also be necessary to replace
some or all of the workstation computers if they do not have 1000baseT network cards or
purchase cards for each device. Additionally, even though CAT5 cabling is capable of
delivering 1000mbps speeds, depending on the length of the runs and cable degradation
since installation it may be necessary to replace significant amount of the cabling to avoid
loss in connectivity and speed. Finally attributing to the cost will be the need for additional
switches, patch panels, routers and cabling in order to facilitate the segmentation of the
new network infrastructure proposed.
Despite the disadvantage of cost, upgrading the LAN backbone at each site would provide
the most direct and significant impact for business performance. Each location has between
25 and 50 employees utilizing computers and around 25 VOIP phones. Provided an
estimated required bandwidth of 5Mbps per VOIP phone the 100Mbps connection could be
completely saturated if all 25 phones where in use. Although this is unlikely, in combination
with bandwidth needs of the computers and other devices a 100mbps connection is simply
not enough. Through this upgrade, it is expected that employees will have better call quality
leading to less repetition as well as faster access to LAN services such and exchange, and
NAS. All of these small improvements result in significant increases in eficiency and
productivity.
The Albany location has a singular T2 connection to the WAN which provides its connectivity
to the corporate headquarters building. Inside the location there are 20 computers and a
printer wired into a 48 ports patch panel and then a 48 port switch, there is a 24 port switch
which provides connectivity to the manufacturing floor all cabling at this site is CATS. There
is a NAS, and local ERP server at this location to provide local data backup which is protected
by a UPS in case of power failure. There is a fiber connection between the local ERP server
and the NAS to facilitate faster data access. Finally there is firewall monitoring the T2 WAN
connection to provide some additional security to the local network. The Pontiac location is
very similarly built to the Albany location with the exception that it is a larger network. The
Pontiac location has 45 computers running the same Windows 7 and Ofice 2007 along with
4 printers.
Running a business in an ever forward moving technological world ensuring that a business
is is keeping up with technology has become critical to maintaining and improving business
performance. "The advancement of technology and the changing global business
environment have compelled the transformation of a warehouse" tiKumar et al., 2021, p.
3470). Utilizing enhances tools for tracking warehouse inventory, production and progress,
will move the business towards increased performance and eficiency as data transparency
increases. This increased insight into production and stocks will lead to increased
manufacturing eficiency while also reducing waste and cost through more informed
ordering of materials and supplies. Beyond these changes and advancements, simply
upgrading the equipment that is on site will greatly improve eficiency. Upgrading the
infrastructure to allow for greater data transfer speeds between employee computers and
local storage, means it takes less time to open and save documents saved on the local NAS,
increased backup speeds, less time waiting for calculations to occur and applications to
load. All of these time savings accumulate into increased eficiency and performance. Adding
new cloud based solution into the new IT infrastructure will allow for future growth in
business compute needs, as well as allowing for a tertiary data backup beyond the local and
main data storage locations at the corporate headquarters. This is another example of how
upgrading the infrastructure will allow for the business to become more productive by
taking advantage of additional tools like cloud computing. "Cloud computing information
centers give high extensibility, achievement, and approach to effective limitless computing
capacity to application suppliers" tiNazir et al. 2021, p. 3537)
Recommendations
The recommendation with the most significant impact will be migrating from
100baseTtilEEE 802.3u) to 1000baseT ti IEEE 802.3ab) and properly segmenting the
network. Based on the current state and structure of the network at each location the most
significant data bottleneck. Along with the data throughput there is also significant added
security risks to each network due to how they are structured and unsegmented.
The biggest advantages in migrating to a newer ethernet protocol and associated speed, will
be the improved data throughput. "However, the interconnection of dissimilar LANs and
devices over a high-speed backbone network can create congestion at a destination LAN
tioutput) gateway when more than one device or LAN attempt is made to communicate
simultaneously with the same device or LAN. We address the issue of congestion avoidance
in LANs interconnected by a high-speed backbone" tiHassanein 1997, p. 261). Through
migration to the 1000baseT standard and moving from a 100mbps to a 1000mbps
backbone, the ten fold increase in speed will prevent and or mitigate the majority of the
congestion. In combination with a network restructure to isolate like devices to their own
LAN, this will further prevent the congestion mentioned by Hassanein.
The most significant disadvantage to adopting this standard will be the cost and time
involved with such an upgrade. If building a new network there would not be a significant
difference in cost as most all newer devices have already adopted 1000baseT standard for
network connectivity. When considering International Plastics Inc. it may prove necessary to
not only upgrade and replace all switches, and routers, it may also be necessary to replace
some or all of the workstation computers if they do not have 1000baseT network cards or
purchase cards for each device. Additionally, even though CAT5 cabling is capable of
delivering 1000mbps speeds, depending on the length of the runs and cable degradation
since installation it may be necessary to replace significant amount of the cabling to avoid
loss in connectivity and speed. Finally attributing to the cost will be the need for additional
switches, patch panels, routers and cabling in order to facilitate the segmentation of the
new network infrastructure proposed.
Despite the disadvantage of cost, upgrading the LAN backbone at each site would provide
the most direct and significant impact for business performance. Each location has between
25 and 50 employees utilizing computers and around 25 VOIP phones. Provided an
estimated required bandwidth of 5Mbps per VOIP phone the 100Mbps connection could be
completely saturated if all 25 phones where in use. Although this is unlikely, in combination
with bandwidth needs of the computers and other devices a 100mbps connection is simply
not enough. Through this upgrade, it is expected that employees will have better call quality
leading to less repetition as well as faster access to LAN services such and exchange, and
NAS. All of these small improvements result in significant increases in eficiency and
productivity.
The Albany location has a singular T2 connection to the WAN which provides its connectivity
to the corporate headquarters building. Inside the location there are 20 computers and a
printer wired into a 48 ports patch panel and then a 48 port switch, there is a 24 port switch
which provides connectivity to the manufacturing floor all cabling at this site is CATS. There
is a NAS, and local ERP server at this location to provide local data backup which is protected
by a UPS in case of power failure. There is a fiber connection between the local ERP server
and the NAS to facilitate faster data access. Finally there is firewall monitoring the T2 WAN
connection to provide some additional security to the local network. The Pontiac location is
very similarly built to the Albany location with the exception that it is a larger network. The
Pontiac location has 45 computers running the same Windows 7 and Ofice 2007 along with
4 printers.
Running a business in an ever forward moving technological world ensuring that a business
is is keeping up with technology has become critical to maintaining and improving business
performance. "The advancement of technology and the changing global business
environment have compelled the transformation of a warehouse" tiKumar et al., 2021, p.
3470). Utilizing enhances tools for tracking warehouse inventory, production and progress,
will move the business towards increased performance and eficiency as data transparency
increases. This increased insight into production and stocks will lead to increased
manufacturing eficiency while also reducing waste and cost through more informed
ordering of materials and supplies. Beyond these changes and advancements, simply
upgrading the equipment that is on site will greatly improve eficiency. Upgrading the
infrastructure to allow for greater data transfer speeds between employee computers and
local storage, means it takes less time to open and save documents saved on the local NAS,
increased backup speeds, less time waiting for calculations to occur and applications to
load. All of these time savings accumulate into increased eficiency and performance. Adding
new cloud based solution into the new IT infrastructure will allow for future growth in
business compute needs, as well as allowing for a tertiary data backup beyond the local and
main data storage locations at the corporate headquarters. This is another example of how
upgrading the infrastructure will allow for the business to become more productive by
taking advantage of additional tools like cloud computing. "Cloud computing information
centers give high extensibility, achievement, and approach to effective limitless computing
capacity to application suppliers" tiNazir et al. 2021, p. 3537)
Recommendations
The recommendation with the most significant impact will be migrating from
100baseTtilEEE 802.3u) to 1000baseT ti IEEE 802.3ab) and properly segmenting the
network. Based on the current state and structure of the network at each location the most
significant data bottleneck. Along with the data throughput there is also significant added
security risks to each network due to how they are structured and unsegmented.
The biggest advantages in migrating to a newer ethernet protocol and associated speed, will
be the improved data throughput. "However, the interconnection of dissimilar LANs and
devices over a high-speed backbone network can create congestion at a destination LAN
tioutput) gateway when more than one device or LAN attempt is made to communicate
simultaneously with the same device or LAN. We address the issue of congestion avoidance
in LANs interconnected by a high-speed backbone" tiHassanein 1997, p. 261). Through
migration to the 1000baseT standard and moving from a 100mbps to a 1000mbps
backbone, the ten fold increase in speed will prevent and or mitigate the majority of the
congestion. In combination with a network restructure to isolate like devices to their own
LAN, this will further prevent the congestion mentioned by Hassanein.
The most significant disadvantage to adopting this standard will be the cost and time
involved with such an upgrade. If building a new network there would not be a significant
difference in cost as most all newer devices have already adopted 1000baseT standard for
network connectivity. When considering International Plastics Inc. it may prove necessary to
not only upgrade and replace all switches, and routers, it may also be necessary to replace
some or all of the workstation computers if they do not have 1000baseT network cards or
purchase cards for each device. Additionally, even though CAT5 cabling is capable of
delivering 1000mbps speeds, depending on the length of the runs and cable degradation
since installation it may be necessary to replace significant amount of the cabling to avoid
loss in connectivity and speed. Finally attributing to the cost will be the need for additional
switches, patch panels, routers and cabling in order to facilitate the segmentation of the
new network infrastructure proposed.
Despite the disadvantage of cost, upgrading the LAN backbone at each site would provide
the most direct and significant impact for business performance. Each location has between
25 and 50 employees utilizing computers and around 25 VOIP phones. Provided an
estimated required bandwidth of 5Mbps per VOIP phone the 100Mbps connection could be
completely saturated if all 25 phones where in use. Although this is unlikely, in combination
with bandwidth needs of the computers and other devices a 100mbps connection is simply
not enough. Through this upgrade, it is expected that employees will have better call quality
leading to less repetition as well as faster access to LAN services such and exchange, and
NAS. All of these small improvements result in significant increases in eficiency and
productivity.
The Albany location has a singular T2 connection to the WAN which provides its connectivity
to the corporate headquarters building. Inside the location there are 20 computers and a
printer wired into a 48 ports patch panel and then a 48 port switch, there is a 24 port switch
which provides connectivity to the manufacturing floor all cabling at this site is CATS. There
is a NAS, and local ERP server at this location to provide local data backup which is protected
by a UPS in case of power failure. There is a fiber connection between the local ERP server
and the NAS to facilitate faster data access. Finally there is firewall monitoring the T2 WAN
connection to provide some additional security to the local network. The Pontiac location is
very similarly built to the Albany location with the exception that it is a larger network. The
Pontiac location has 45 computers running the same Windows 7 and Ofice 2007 along with
4 printers.
Running a business in an ever forward moving technological world ensuring that a business
is is keeping up with technology has become critical to maintaining and improving business
performance. "The advancement of technology and the changing global business
environment have compelled the transformation of a warehouse" tiKumar et al., 2021, p.
3470). Utilizing enhances tools for tracking warehouse inventory, production and progress,
will move the business towards increased performance and eficiency as data transparency
increases. This increased insight into production and stocks will lead to increased
manufacturing eficiency while also reducing waste and cost through more informed
ordering of materials and supplies. Beyond these changes and advancements, simply
upgrading the equipment that is on site will greatly improve eficiency. Upgrading the
infrastructure to allow for greater data transfer speeds between employee computers and
local storage, means it takes less time to open and save documents saved on the local NAS,
increased backup speeds, less time waiting for calculations to occur and applications to
load. All of these time savings accumulate into increased eficiency and performance. Adding
new cloud based solution into the new IT infrastructure will allow for future growth in
business compute needs, as well as allowing for a tertiary data backup beyond the local and
main data storage locations at the corporate headquarters. This is another example of how
upgrading the infrastructure will allow for the business to become more productive by
taking advantage of additional tools like cloud computing. "Cloud computing information
centers give high extensibility, achievement, and approach to effective limitless computing
capacity to application suppliers" tiNazir et al. 2021, p. 3537)
Recommendations
The recommendation with the most significant impact will be migrating from
100baseTtilEEE 802.3u) to 1000baseT ti IEEE 802.3ab) and properly segmenting the
network. Based on the current state and structure of the network at each location the most
significant data bottleneck. Along with the data throughput there is also significant added
security risks to each network due to how they are structured and unsegmented.
The biggest advantages in migrating to a newer ethernet protocol and associated speed, will
be the improved data throughput. "However, the interconnection of dissimilar LANs and
devices over a high-speed backbone network can create congestion at a destination LAN
tioutput) gateway when more than one device or LAN attempt is made to communicate
simultaneously with the same device or LAN. We address the issue of congestion avoidance
in LANs interconnected by a high-speed backbone" tiHassanein 1997, p. 261). Through
migration to the 1000baseT standard and moving from a 100mbps to a 1000mbps
backbone, the ten fold increase in speed will prevent and or mitigate the majority of the
congestion. In combination with a network restructure to isolate like devices to their own
LAN, this will further prevent the congestion mentioned by Hassanein.
The most significant disadvantage to adopting this standard will be the cost and time
involved with such an upgrade. If building a new network there would not be a significant
difference in cost as most all newer devices have already adopted 1000baseT standard for
network connectivity. When considering International Plastics Inc. it may prove necessary to
not only upgrade and replace all switches, and routers, it may also be necessary to replace
some or all of the workstation computers if they do not have 1000baseT network cards or
purchase cards for each device. Additionally, even though CAT5 cabling is capable of
delivering 1000mbps speeds, depending on the length of the runs and cable degradation
since installation it may be necessary to replace significant amount of the cabling to avoid
loss in connectivity and speed. Finally attributing to the cost will be the need for additional
switches, patch panels, routers and cabling in order to facilitate the segmentation of the
new network infrastructure proposed.
Despite the disadvantage of cost, upgrading the LAN backbone at each site would provide
the most direct and significant impact for business performance. Each location has between
25 and 50 employees utilizing computers and around 25 VOIP phones. Provided an
estimated required bandwidth of 5Mbps per VOIP phone the 100Mbps connection could be
completely saturated if all 25 phones where in use. Although this is unlikely, in combination
with bandwidth needs of the computers and other devices a 100mbps connection is simply
not enough. Through this upgrade, it is expected that employees will have better call quality
leading to less repetition as well as faster access to LAN services such and exchange, and
NAS. All of these small improvements result in significant increases in eficiency and
productivity.
The Albany location has a singular T2 connection to the WAN which provides its connectivity
to the corporate headquarters building. Inside the location there are 20 computers and a
printer wired into a 48 ports patch panel and then a 48 port switch, there is a 24 port switch
which provides connectivity to the manufacturing floor all cabling at this site is CATS. There
is a NAS, and local ERP server at this location to provide local data backup which is protected
by a UPS in case of power failure. There is a fiber connection between the local ERP server
and the NAS to facilitate faster data access. Finally there is firewall monitoring the T2 WAN
connection to provide some additional security to the local network. The Pontiac location is
very similarly built to the Albany location with the exception that it is a larger network. The
Pontiac location has 45 computers running the same Windows 7 and Ofice 2007 along with
4 printers.
Running a business in an ever forward moving technological world ensuring that a business
is is keeping up with technology has become critical to maintaining and improving business
performance. "The advancement of technology and the changing global business
environment have compelled the transformation of a warehouse" tiKumar et al., 2021, p.
3470). Utilizing enhances tools for tracking warehouse inventory, production and progress,
will move the business towards increased performance and eficiency as data transparency
increases. This increased insight into production and stocks will lead to increased
manufacturing eficiency while also reducing waste and cost through more informed
ordering of materials and supplies. Beyond these changes and advancements, simply
upgrading the equipment that is on site will greatly improve eficiency. Upgrading the
infrastructure to allow for greater data transfer speeds between employee computers and
local storage, means it takes less time to open and save documents saved on the local NAS,
increased backup speeds, less time waiting for calculations to occur and applications to
load. All of these time savings accumulate into increased eficiency and performance. Adding
new cloud based solution into the new IT infrastructure will allow for future growth in
business compute needs, as well as allowing for a tertiary data backup beyond the local and
main data storage locations at the corporate headquarters. This is another example of how
upgrading the infrastructure will allow for the business to become more productive by
taking advantage of additional tools like cloud computing. "Cloud computing information
centers give high extensibility, achievement, and approach to effective limitless computing
capacity to application suppliers" tiNazir et al. 2021, p. 3537)
Recommendations
The recommendation with the most significant impact will be migrating from
100baseTtilEEE 802.3u) to 1000baseT ti IEEE 802.3ab) and properly segmenting the
network. Based on the current state and structure of the network at each location the most
significant data bottleneck. Along with the data throughput there is also significant added
security risks to each network due to how they are structured and unsegmented.
The biggest advantages in migrating to a newer ethernet protocol and associated speed, will
be the improved data throughput. "However, the interconnection of dissimilar LANs and
devices over a high-speed backbone network can create congestion at a destination LAN
tioutput) gateway when more than one device or LAN attempt is made to communicate
simultaneously with the same device or LAN. We address the issue of congestion avoidance
in LANs interconnected by a high-speed backbone" tiHassanein 1997, p. 261). Through
migration to the 1000baseT standard and moving from a 100mbps to a 1000mbps
backbone, the ten fold increase in speed will prevent and or mitigate the majority of the
congestion. In combination with a network restructure to isolate like devices to their own
LAN, this will further prevent the congestion mentioned by Hassanein.
The most significant disadvantage to adopting this standard will be the cost and time
involved with such an upgrade. If building a new network there would not be a significant
difference in cost as most all newer devices have already adopted 1000baseT standard for
network connectivity. When considering International Plastics Inc. it may prove necessary to
not only upgrade and replace all switches, and routers, it may also be necessary to replace
some or all of the workstation computers if they do not have 1000baseT network cards or
purchase cards for each device. Additionally, even though CAT5 cabling is capable of
delivering 1000mbps speeds, depending on the length of the runs and cable degradation
since installation it may be necessary to replace significant amount of the cabling to avoid
loss in connectivity and speed. Finally attributing to the cost will be the need for additional
switches, patch panels, routers and cabling in order to facilitate the segmentation of the
new network infrastructure proposed.
Despite the disadvantage of cost, upgrading the LAN backbone at each site would provide
the most direct and significant impact for business performance. Each location has between
25 and 50 employees utilizing computers and around 25 VOIP phones. Provided an
estimated required bandwidth of 5Mbps per VOIP phone the 100Mbps connection could be
completely saturated if all 25 phones where in use. Although this is unlikely, in combination
with bandwidth needs of the computers and other devices a 100mbps connection is simply
not enough. Through this upgrade, it is expected that employees will have better call quality
leading to less repetition as well as faster access to LAN services such and exchange, and
NAS. All of these small improvements result in significant increases in eficiency and
productivity.
The Albany location has a singular T2 connection to the WAN which provides its connectivity
to the corporate headquarters building. Inside the location there are 20 computers and a
printer wired into a 48 ports patch panel and then a 48 port switch, there is a 24 port switch
which provides connectivity to the manufacturing floor all cabling at this site is CATS. There
is a NAS, and local ERP server at this location to provide local data backup which is protected
by a UPS in case of power failure. There is a fiber connection between the local ERP server
and the NAS to facilitate faster data access. Finally there is firewall monitoring the T2 WAN
connection to provide some additional security to the local network. The Pontiac location is
very similarly built to the Albany location with the exception that it is a larger network. The
Pontiac location has 45 computers running the same Windows 7 and Ofice 2007 along with
4 printers.
Running a business in an ever forward moving technological world ensuring that a business
is is keeping up with technology has become critical to maintaining and improving business
performance. "The advancement of technology and the changing global business
environment have compelled the transformation of a warehouse" tiKumar et al., 2021, p.
3470). Utilizing enhances tools for tracking warehouse inventory, production and progress,
will move the business towards increased performance and eficiency as data transparency
increases. This increased insight into production and stocks will lead to increased
manufacturing eficiency while also reducing waste and cost through more informed
ordering of materials and supplies. Beyond these changes and advancements, simply
upgrading the equipment that is on site will greatly improve eficiency. Upgrading the
infrastructure to allow for greater data transfer speeds between employee computers and
local storage, means it takes less time to open and save documents saved on the local NAS,
increased backup speeds, less time waiting for calculations to occur and applications to
load. All of these time savings accumulate into increased eficiency and performance. Adding
new cloud based solution into the new IT infrastructure will allow for future growth in
business compute needs, as well as allowing for a tertiary data backup beyond the local and
main data storage locations at the corporate headquarters. This is another example of how
upgrading the infrastructure will allow for the business to become more productive by
taking advantage of additional tools like cloud computing. "Cloud computing information
centers give high extensibility, achievement, and approach to effective limitless computing
capacity to application suppliers" tiNazir et al. 2021, p. 3537)
Recommendations
The recommendation with the most significant impact will be migrating from
100baseTtilEEE 802.3u) to 1000baseT ti IEEE 802.3ab) and properly segmenting the
network. Based on the current state and structure of the network at each location the most
significant data bottleneck. Along with the data throughput there is also significant added
security risks to each network due to how they are structured and unsegmented.
The biggest advantages in migrating to a newer ethernet protocol and associated speed, will
be the improved data throughput. "However, the interconnection of dissimilar LANs and
devices over a high-speed backbone network can create congestion at a destination LAN
tioutput) gateway when more than one device or LAN attempt is made to communicate
simultaneously with the same device or LAN. We address the issue of congestion avoidance
in LANs interconnected by a high-speed backbone" tiHassanein 1997, p. 261). Through
migration to the 1000baseT standard and moving from a 100mbps to a 1000mbps
backbone, the ten fold increase in speed will prevent and or mitigate the majority of the
congestion. In combination with a network restructure to isolate like devices to their own
LAN, this will further prevent the congestion mentioned by Hassanein.
The most significant disadvantage to adopting this standard will be the cost and time
involved with such an upgrade. If building a new network there would not be a significant
difference in cost as most all newer devices have already adopted 1000baseT standard for
network connectivity. When considering International Plastics Inc. it may prove necessary to
not only upgrade and replace all switches, and routers, it may also be necessary to replace
some or all of the workstation computers if they do not have 1000baseT network cards or
purchase cards for each device. Additionally, even though CAT5 cabling is capable of
delivering 1000mbps speeds, depending on the length of the runs and cable degradation
since installation it may be necessary to replace significant amount of the cabling to avoid
loss in connectivity and speed. Finally attributing to the cost will be the need for additional
switches, patch panels, routers and cabling in order to facilitate the segmentation of the
new network infrastructure proposed.
Despite the disadvantage of cost, upgrading the LAN backbone at each site would provide
the most direct and significant impact for business performance. Each location has between
25 and 50 employees utilizing computers and around 25 VOIP phones. Provided an
estimated required bandwidth of 5Mbps per VOIP phone the 100Mbps connection could be
completely saturated if all 25 phones where in use. Although this is unlikely, in combination
with bandwidth needs of the computers and other devices a 100mbps connection is simply
not enough. Through this upgrade, it is expected that employees will have better call quality
leading to less repetition as well as faster access to LAN services such and exchange, and
NAS. All of these small improvements result in significant increases in eficiency and
productivity.
The Albany location has a singular T2 connection to the WAN which provides its connectivity
to the corporate headquarters building. Inside the location there are 20 computers and a
printer wired into a 48 ports patch panel and then a 48 port switch, there is a 24 port switch
which provides connectivity to the manufacturing floor all cabling at this site is CATS. There
is a NAS, and local ERP server at this location to provide local data backup which is protected
by a UPS in case of power failure. There is a fiber connection between the local ERP server
and the NAS to facilitate faster data access. Finally there is firewall monitoring the T2 WAN
connection to provide some additional security to the local network. The Pontiac location is
very similarly built to the Albany location with the exception that it is a larger network. The
Pontiac location has 45 computers running the same Windows 7 and Ofice 2007 along with
4 printers.
Running a business in an ever forward moving technological world ensuring that a business
is is keeping up with technology has become critical to maintaining and improving business
performance. "The advancement of technology and the changing global business
environment have compelled the transformation of a warehouse" tiKumar et al., 2021, p.
3470). Utilizing enhances tools for tracking warehouse inventory, production and progress,
will move the business towards increased performance and eficiency as data transparency
increases. This increased insight into production and stocks will lead to increased
manufacturing eficiency while also reducing waste and cost through more informed
ordering of materials and supplies. Beyond these changes and advancements, simply
upgrading the equipment that is on site will greatly improve eficiency. Upgrading the
infrastructure to allow for greater data transfer speeds between employee computers and
local storage, means it takes less time to open and save documents saved on the local NAS,
increased backup speeds, less time waiting for calculations to occur and applications to
load. All of these time savings accumulate into increased eficiency and performance. Adding
new cloud based solution into the new IT infrastructure will allow for future growth in
business compute needs, as well as allowing for a tertiary data backup beyond the local and
main data storage locations at the corporate headquarters. This is another example of how
upgrading the infrastructure will allow for the business to become more productive by
taking advantage of additional tools like cloud computing. "Cloud computing information
centers give high extensibility, achievement, and approach to effective limitless computing
capacity to application suppliers" tiNazir et al. 2021, p. 3537)
Recommendations
The recommendation with the most significant impact will be migrating from
100baseTtilEEE 802.3u) to 1000baseT ti IEEE 802.3ab) and properly segmenting the
network. Based on the current state and structure of the network at each location the most
significant data bottleneck. Along with the data throughput there is also significant added
security risks to each network due to how they are structured and unsegmented.
The biggest advantages in migrating to a newer ethernet protocol and associated speed, will
be the improved data throughput. "However, the interconnection of dissimilar LANs and
devices over a high-speed backbone network can create congestion at a destination LAN
tioutput) gateway when more than one device or LAN attempt is made to communicate
simultaneously with the same device or LAN. We address the issue of congestion avoidance
in LANs interconnected by a high-speed backbone" tiHassanein 1997, p. 261). Through
migration to the 1000baseT standard and moving from a 100mbps to a 1000mbps
backbone, the ten fold increase in speed will prevent and or mitigate the majority of the
congestion. In combination with a network restructure to isolate like devices to their own
LAN, this will further prevent the congestion mentioned by Hassanein.
The most significant disadvantage to adopting this standard will be the cost and time
involved with such an upgrade. If building a new network there would not be a significant
difference in cost as most all newer devices have already adopted 1000baseT standard for
network connectivity. When considering International Plastics Inc. it may prove necessary to
not only upgrade and replace all switches, and routers, it may also be necessary to replace
some or all of the workstation computers if they do not have 1000baseT network cards or
purchase cards for each device. Additionally, even though CAT5 cabling is capable of
delivering 1000mbps speeds, depending on the length of the runs and cable degradation
since installation it may be necessary to replace significant amount of the cabling to avoid
loss in connectivity and speed. Finally attributing to the cost will be the need for additional
switches, patch panels, routers and cabling in order to facilitate the segmentation of the
new network infrastructure proposed.
Despite the disadvantage of cost, upgrading the LAN backbone at each site would provide
the most direct and significant impact for business performance. Each location has between
25 and 50 employees utilizing computers and around 25 VOIP phones. Provided an
estimated required bandwidth of 5Mbps per VOIP phone the 100Mbps connection could be
completely saturated if all 25 phones where in use. Although this is unlikely, in combination
with bandwidth needs of the computers and other devices a 100mbps connection is simply
not enough. Through this upgrade, it is expected that employees will have better call quality
leading to less repetition as well as faster access to LAN services such and exchange, and
NAS. All of these small improvements result in significant increases in eficiency and
productivity.
The Albany location has a singular T2 connection to the WAN which provides its connectivity
to the corporate headquarters building. Inside the location there are 20 computers and a
printer wired into a 48 ports patch panel and then a 48 port switch, there is a 24 port switch
which provides connectivity to the manufacturing floor all cabling at this site is CATS. There
is a NAS, and local ERP server at this location to provide local data backup which is protected
by a UPS in case of power failure. There is a fiber connection between the local ERP server
and the NAS to facilitate faster data access. Finally there is firewall monitoring the T2 WAN
connection to provide some additional security to the local network. The Pontiac location is
very similarly built to the Albany location with the exception that it is a larger network. The
Pontiac location has 45 computers running the same Windows 7 and Ofice 2007 along with
4 printers.
Running a business in an ever forward moving technological world ensuring that a business
is is keeping up with technology has become critical to maintaining and improving business
performance. "The advancement of technology and the changing global business
environment have compelled the transformation of a warehouse" tiKumar et al., 2021, p.
3470). Utilizing enhances tools for tracking warehouse inventory, production and progress,
will move the business towards increased performance and eficiency as data transparency
increases. This increased insight into production and stocks will lead to increased
manufacturing eficiency while also reducing waste and cost through more informed
ordering of materials and supplies. Beyond these changes and advancements, simply
upgrading the equipment that is on site will greatly improve eficiency. Upgrading the
infrastructure to allow for greater data transfer speeds between employee computers and
local storage, means it takes less time to open and save documents saved on the local NAS,
increased backup speeds, less time waiting for calculations to occur and applications to
load. All of these time savings accumulate into increased eficiency and performance. Adding
new cloud based solution into the new IT infrastructure will allow for future growth in
business compute needs, as well as allowing for a tertiary data backup beyond the local and
main data storage locations at the corporate headquarters. This is another example of how
upgrading the infrastructure will allow for the business to become more productive by
taking advantage of additional tools like cloud computing. "Cloud computing information
centers give high extensibility, achievement, and approach to effective limitless computing
capacity to application suppliers" tiNazir et al. 2021, p. 3537)
Recommendations
The recommendation with the most significant impact will be migrating from
100baseTtilEEE 802.3u) to 1000baseT ti IEEE 802.3ab) and properly segmenting the
network. Based on the current state and structure of the network at each location the most
significant data bottleneck. Along with the data throughput there is also significant added
security risks to each network due to how they are structured and unsegmented.
The biggest advantages in migrating to a newer ethernet protocol and associated speed, will
be the improved data throughput. "However, the interconnection of dissimilar LANs and
devices over a high-speed backbone network can create congestion at a destination LAN
tioutput) gateway when more than one device or LAN attempt is made to communicate
simultaneously with the same device or LAN. We address the issue of congestion avoidance
in LANs interconnected by a high-speed backbone" tiHassanein 1997, p. 261). Through
migration to the 1000baseT standard and moving from a 100mbps to a 1000mbps
backbone, the ten fold increase in speed will prevent and or mitigate the majority of the
congestion. In combination with a network restructure to isolate like devices to their own
LAN, this will further prevent the congestion mentioned by Hassanein.
The most significant disadvantage to adopting this standard will be the cost and time
involved with such an upgrade. If building a new network there would not be a significant
difference in cost as most all newer devices have already adopted 1000baseT standard for
network connectivity. When considering International Plastics Inc. it may prove necessary to
not only upgrade and replace all switches, and routers, it may also be necessary to replace
some or all of the workstation computers if they do not have 1000baseT network cards or
purchase cards for each device. Additionally, even though CAT5 cabling is capable of
delivering 1000mbps speeds, depending on the length of the runs and cable degradation
since installation it may be necessary to replace significant amount of the cabling to avoid
loss in connectivity and speed. Finally attributing to the cost will be the need for additional
switches, patch panels, routers and cabling in order to facilitate the segmentation of the
new network infrastructure proposed.
Despite the disadvantage of cost, upgrading the LAN backbone at each site would provide
the most direct and significant impact for business performance. Each location has between
25 and 50 employees utilizing computers and around 25 VOIP phones. Provided an
estimated required bandwidth of 5Mbps per VOIP phone the 100Mbps connection could be
completely saturated if all 25 phones where in use. Although this is unlikely, in combination
with bandwidth needs of the computers and other devices a 100mbps connection is simply
not enough. Through this upgrade, it is expected that employees will have better call quality
leading to less repetition as well as faster access to LAN services such and exchange, and
NAS. All of these small improvements result in significant increases in eficiency and
productivity.
The Albany location has a singular T2 connection to the WAN which provides its connectivity
to the corporate headquarters building. Inside the location there are 20 computers and a
printer wired into a 48 ports patch panel and then a 48 port switch, there is a 24 port switch
which provides connectivity to the manufacturing floor all cabling at this site is CATS. There
is a NAS, and local ERP server at this location to provide local data backup which is protected
by a UPS in case of power failure. There is a fiber connection between the local ERP server
and the NAS to facilitate faster data access. Finally there is firewall monitoring the T2 WAN
connection to provide some additional security to the local network. The Pontiac location is
very similarly built to the Albany location with the exception that it is a larger network. The
Pontiac location has 45 computers running the same Windows 7 and Ofice 2007 along with
4 printers.
Running a business in an ever forward moving technological world ensuring that a business
is is keeping up with technology has become critical to maintaining and improving business
performance. "The advancement of technology and the changing global business
environment have compelled the transformation of a warehouse" tiKumar et al., 2021, p.
3470). Utilizing enhances tools for tracking warehouse inventory, production and progress,
will move the business towards increased performance and eficiency as data transparency
increases. This increased insight into production and stocks will lead to increased
manufacturing eficiency while also reducing waste and cost through more informed
ordering of materials and supplies. Beyond these changes and advancements, simply
upgrading the equipment that is on site will greatly improve eficiency. Upgrading the
infrastructure to allow for greater data transfer speeds between employee computers and
local storage, means it takes less time to open and save documents saved on the local NAS,
increased backup speeds, less time waiting for calculations to occur and applications to
load. All of these time savings accumulate into increased eficiency and performance. Adding
new cloud based solution into the new IT infrastructure will allow for future growth in
business compute needs, as well as allowing for a tertiary data backup beyond the local and
main data storage locations at the corporate headquarters. This is another example of how
upgrading the infrastructure will allow for the business to become more productive by
taking advantage of additional tools like cloud computing. "Cloud computing information
centers give high extensibility, achievement, and approach to effective limitless computing
capacity to application suppliers" tiNazir et al. 2021, p. 3537)
Recommendations
The recommendation with the most significant impact will be migrating from
100baseTtilEEE 802.3u) to 1000baseT ti IEEE 802.3ab) and properly segmenting the
network. Based on the current state and structure of the network at each location the most
significant data bottleneck. Along with the data throughput there is also significant added
security risks to each network due to how they are structured and unsegmented.
The biggest advantages in migrating to a newer ethernet protocol and associated speed, will
be the improved data throughput. "However, the interconnection of dissimilar LANs and
devices over a high-speed backbone network can create congestion at a destination LAN
tioutput) gateway when more than one device or LAN attempt is made to communicate
simultaneously with the same device or LAN. We address the issue of congestion avoidance
in LANs interconnected by a high-speed backbone" tiHassanein 1997, p. 261). Through
migration to the 1000baseT standard and moving from a 100mbps to a 1000mbps
backbone, the ten fold increase in speed will prevent and or mitigate the majority of the
congestion. In combination with a network restructure to isolate like devices to their own
LAN, this will further prevent the congestion mentioned by Hassanein.
The most significant disadvantage to adopting this standard will be the cost and time
involved with such an upgrade. If building a new network there would not be a significant
difference in cost as most all newer devices have already adopted 1000baseT standard for
network connectivity. When considering International Plastics Inc. it may prove necessary to
not only upgrade and replace all switches, and routers, it may also be necessary to replace
some or all of the workstation computers if they do not have 1000baseT network cards or
purchase cards for each device. Additionally, even though CAT5 cabling is capable of
delivering 1000mbps speeds, depending on the length of the runs and cable degradation
since installation it may be necessary to replace significant amount of the cabling to avoid
loss in connectivity and speed. Finally attributing to the cost will be the need for additional
switches, patch panels, routers and cabling in order to facilitate the segmentation of the
new network infrastructure proposed.
Despite the disadvantage of cost, upgrading the LAN backbone at each site would provide
the most direct and significant impact for business performance. Each location has between
25 and 50 employees utilizing computers and around 25 VOIP phones. Provided an
estimated required bandwidth of 5Mbps per VOIP phone the 100Mbps connection could be
completely saturated if all 25 phones where in use. Although this is unlikely, in combination
with bandwidth needs of the computers and other devices a 100mbps connection is simply
not enough. Through this upgrade, it is expected that employees will have better call quality
leading to less repetition as well as faster access to LAN services such and exchange, and
NAS. All of these small improvements result in significant increases in eficiency and
productivity.
The Albany location has a singular T2 connection to the WAN which provides its connectivity
to the corporate headquarters building. Inside the location there are 20 computers and a
printer wired into a 48 ports patch panel and then a 48 port switch, there is a 24 port switch
which provides connectivity to the manufacturing floor all cabling at this site is CATS. There
is a NAS, and local ERP server at this location to provide local data backup which is protected
by a UPS in case of power failure. There is a fiber connection between the local ERP server
and the NAS to facilitate faster data access. Finally there is firewall monitoring the T2 WAN
connection to provide some additional security to the local network. The Pontiac location is
very similarly built to the Albany location with the exception that it is a larger network. The
Pontiac location has 45 computers running the same Windows 7 and Ofice 2007 along with
4 printers.
Running a business in an ever forward moving technological world ensuring that a business
is is keeping up with technology has become critical to maintaining and improving business
performance. "The advancement of technology and the changing global business
environment have compelled the transformation of a warehouse" tiKumar et al., 2021, p.
3470). Utilizing enhances tools for tracking warehouse inventory, production and progress,
will move the business towards increased performance and eficiency as data transparency
increases. This increased insight into production and stocks will lead to increased
manufacturing eficiency while also reducing waste and cost through more informed
ordering of materials and supplies. Beyond these changes and advancements, simply
upgrading the equipment that is on site will greatly improve eficiency. Upgrading the
infrastructure to allow for greater data transfer speeds between employee computers and
local storage, means it takes less time to open and save documents saved on the local NAS,
increased backup speeds, less time waiting for calculations to occur and applications to
load. All of these time savings accumulate into increased eficiency and performance. Adding
new cloud based solution into the new IT infrastructure will allow for future growth in
business compute needs, as well as allowing for a tertiary data backup beyond the local and
main data storage locations at the corporate headquarters. This is another example of how
upgrading the infrastructure will allow for the business to become more productive by
taking advantage of additional tools like cloud computing. "Cloud computing information
centers give high extensibility, achievement, and approach to effective limitless computing
capacity to application suppliers" tiNazir et al. 2021, p. 3537)
Recommendations
The recommendation with the most significant impact will be migrating from
100baseTtilEEE 802.3u) to 1000baseT ti IEEE 802.3ab) and properly segmenting the
network. Based on the current state and structure of the network at each location the most
significant data bottleneck. Along with the data throughput there is also significant added
security risks to each network due to how they are structured and unsegmented.
The biggest advantages in migrating to a newer ethernet protocol and associated speed, will
be the improved data throughput. "However, the interconnection of dissimilar LANs and
devices over a high-speed backbone network can create congestion at a destination LAN
tioutput) gateway when more than one device or LAN attempt is made to communicate
simultaneously with the same device or LAN. We address the issue of congestion avoidance
in LANs interconnected by a high-speed backbone" tiHassanein 1997, p. 261). Through
migration to the 1000baseT standard and moving from a 100mbps to a 1000mbps
backbone, the ten fold increase in speed will prevent and or mitigate the majority of the
congestion. In combination with a network restructure to isolate like devices to their own
LAN, this will further prevent the congestion mentioned by Hassanein.
The most significant disadvantage to adopting this standard will be the cost and time
involved with such an upgrade. If building a new network there would not be a significant
difference in cost as most all newer devices have already adopted 1000baseT standard for
network connectivity. When considering International Plastics Inc. it may prove necessary to
not only upgrade and replace all switches, and routers, it may also be necessary to replace
some or all of the workstation computers if they do not have 1000baseT network cards or
purchase cards for each device. Additionally, even though CAT5 cabling is capable of
delivering 1000mbps speeds, depending on the length of the runs and cable degradation
since installation it may be necessary to replace significant amount of the cabling to avoid
loss in connectivity and speed. Finally attributing to the cost will be the need for additional
switches, patch panels, routers and cabling in order to facilitate the segmentation of the
new network infrastructure proposed.
Despite the disadvantage of cost, upgrading the LAN backbone at each site would provide
the most direct and significant impact for business performance. Each location has between
25 and 50 employees utilizing computers and around 25 VOIP phones. Provided an
estimated required bandwidth of 5Mbps per VOIP phone the 100Mbps connection could be
completely saturated if all 25 phones where in use. Although this is unlikely, in combination
with bandwidth needs of the computers and other devices a 100mbps connection is simply
not enough. Through this upgrade, it is expected that employees will have better call quality
leading to less repetition as well as faster access to LAN services such and exchange, and
NAS. All of these small improvements result in significant increases in eficiency and
productivity.
The Albany location has a singular T2 connection to the WAN which provides its connectivity
to the corporate headquarters building. Inside the location there are 20 computers and a
printer wired into a 48 ports patch panel and then a 48 port switch, there is a 24 port switch
which provides connectivity to the manufacturing floor all cabling at this site is CATS. There
is a NAS, and local ERP server at this location to provide local data backup which is protected
by a UPS in case of power failure. There is a fiber connection between the local ERP server
and the NAS to facilitate faster data access. Finally there is firewall monitoring the T2 WAN
connection to provide some additional security to the local network. The Pontiac location is
very similarly built to the Albany location with the exception that it is a larger network. The
Pontiac location has 45 computers running the same Windows 7 and Ofice 2007 along with
4 printers.
Running a business in an ever forward moving technological world ensuring that a business
is is keeping up with technology has become critical to maintaining and improving business
performance. "The advancement of technology and the changing global business
environment have compelled the transformation of a warehouse" tiKumar et al., 2021, p.
3470). Utilizing enhances tools for tracking warehouse inventory, production and progress,
will move the business towards increased performance and eficiency as data transparency
increases. This increased insight into production and stocks will lead to increased
manufacturing eficiency while also reducing waste and cost through more informed
ordering of materials and supplies. Beyond these changes and advancements, simply
upgrading the equipment that is on site will greatly improve eficiency. Upgrading the
infrastructure to allow for greater data transfer speeds between employee computers and
local storage, means it takes less time to open and save documents saved on the local NAS,
increased backup speeds, less time waiting for calculations to occur and applications to
load. All of these time savings accumulate into increased eficiency and performance. Adding
new cloud based solution into the new IT infrastructure will allow for future growth in
business compute needs, as well as allowing for a tertiary data backup beyond the local and
main data storage locations at the corporate headquarters. This is another example of how
upgrading the infrastructure will allow for the business to become more productive by
taking advantage of additional tools like cloud computing. "Cloud computing information
centers give high extensibility, achievement, and approach to effective limitless computing
capacity to application suppliers" tiNazir et al. 2021, p. 3537)
Recommendations
The recommendation with the most significant impact will be migrating from
100baseTtilEEE 802.3u) to 1000baseT ti IEEE 802.3ab) and properly segmenting the
network. Based on the current state and structure of the network at each location the most
significant data bottleneck. Along with the data throughput there is also significant added
security risks to each network due to how they are structured and unsegmented.
The biggest advantages in migrating to a newer ethernet protocol and associated speed, will
be the improved data throughput. "However, the interconnection of dissimilar LANs and
devices over a high-speed backbone network can create congestion at a destination LAN
tioutput) gateway when more than one device or LAN attempt is made to communicate
simultaneously with the same device or LAN. We address the issue of congestion avoidance
in LANs interconnected by a high-speed backbone" tiHassanein 1997, p. 261). Through
migration to the 1000baseT standard and moving from a 100mbps to a 1000mbps
backbone, the ten fold increase in speed will prevent and or mitigate the majority of the
congestion. In combination with a network restructure to isolate like devices to their own
LAN, this will further prevent the congestion mentioned by Hassanein.
The most significant disadvantage to adopting this standard will be the cost and time
involved with such an upgrade. If building a new network there would not be a significant
difference in cost as most all newer devices have already adopted 1000baseT standard for
network connectivity. When considering International Plastics Inc. it may prove necessary to
not only upgrade and replace all switches, and routers, it may also be necessary to replace
some or all of the workstation computers if they do not have 1000baseT network cards or
purchase cards for each device. Additionally, even though CAT5 cabling is capable of
delivering 1000mbps speeds, depending on the length of the runs and cable degradation
since installation it may be necessary to replace significant amount of the cabling to avoid
loss in connectivity and speed. Finally attributing to the cost will be the need for additional
switches, patch panels, routers and cabling in order to facilitate the segmentation of the
new network infrastructure proposed.
Despite the disadvantage of cost, upgrading the LAN backbone at each site would provide
the most direct and significant impact for business performance. Each location has between
25 and 50 employees utilizing computers and around 25 VOIP phones. Provided an
estimated required bandwidth of 5Mbps per VOIP phone the 100Mbps connection could be
completely saturated if all 25 phones where in use. Although this is unlikely, in combination
with bandwidth needs of the computers and other devices a 100mbps connection is simply
not enough. Through this upgrade, it is expected that employees will have better call quality
leading to less repetition as well as faster access to LAN services such and exchange, and
NAS. All of these small improvements result in significant increases in eficiency and
productivity.
The Albany location has a singular T2 connection to the WAN which provides its connectivity
to the corporate headquarters building. Inside the location there are 20 computers and a
printer wired into a 48 ports patch panel and then a 48 port switch, there is a 24 port switch
which provides connectivity to the manufacturing floor all cabling at this site is CATS. There
is a NAS, and local ERP server at this location to provide local data backup which is protected
by a UPS in case of power failure. There is a fiber connection between the local ERP server
and the NAS to facilitate faster data access. Finally there is firewall monitoring the T2 WAN
connection to provide some additional security to the local network. The Pontiac location is
very similarly built to the Albany location with the exception that it is a larger network. The
Pontiac location has 45 computers running the same Windows 7 and Ofice 2007 along with
4 printers.
Running a business in an ever forward moving technological world ensuring that a business
is is keeping up with technology has become critical to maintaining and improving business
performance. "The advancement of technology and the changing global business
environment have compelled the transformation of a warehouse" tiKumar et al., 2021, p.
3470). Utilizing enhances tools for tracking warehouse inventory, production and progress,
will move the business towards increased performance and eficiency as data transparency
increases. This increased insight into production and stocks will lead to increased
manufacturing eficiency while also reducing waste and cost through more informed
ordering of materials and supplies. Beyond these changes and advancements, simply
upgrading the equipment that is on site will greatly improve eficiency. Upgrading the
infrastructure to allow for greater data transfer speeds between employee computers and
local storage, means it takes less time to open and save documents saved on the local NAS,
increased backup speeds, less time waiting for calculations to occur and applications to
load. All of these time savings accumulate into increased eficiency and performance. Adding
new cloud based solution into the new IT infrastructure will allow for future growth in
business compute needs, as well as allowing for a tertiary data backup beyond the local and
main data storage locations at the corporate headquarters. This is another example of how
upgrading the infrastructure will allow for the business to become more productive by
taking advantage of additional tools like cloud computing. "Cloud computing information
centers give high extensibility, achievement, and approach to effective limitless computing
capacity to application suppliers" tiNazir et al. 2021, p. 3537)
Recommendations
The recommendation with the most significant impact will be migrating from
100baseTtilEEE 802.3u) to 1000baseT ti IEEE 802.3ab) and properly segmenting the
network. Based on the current state and structure of the network at each location the most
significant data bottleneck. Along with the data throughput there is also significant added
security risks to each network due to how they are structured and unsegmented.
The biggest advantages in migrating to a newer ethernet protocol and associated speed, will
be the improved data throughput. "However, the interconnection of dissimilar LANs and
devices over a high-speed backbone network can create congestion at a destination LAN
tioutput) gateway when more than one device or LAN attempt is made to communicate
simultaneously with the same device or LAN. We address the issue of congestion avoidance
in LANs interconnected by a high-speed backbone" tiHassanein 1997, p. 261). Through
migration to the 1000baseT standard and moving from a 100mbps to a 1000mbps
backbone, the ten fold increase in speed will prevent and or mitigate the majority of the
congestion. In combination with a network restructure to isolate like devices to their own
LAN, this will further prevent the congestion mentioned by Hassanein.
The most significant disadvantage to adopting this standard will be the cost and time
involved with such an upgrade. If building a new network there would not be a significant
difference in cost as most all newer devices have already adopted 1000baseT standard for
network connectivity. When considering International Plastics Inc. it may prove necessary to
not only upgrade and replace all switches, and routers, it may also be necessary to replace
some or all of the workstation computers if they do not have 1000baseT network cards or
purchase cards for each device. Additionally, even though CAT5 cabling is capable of
delivering 1000mbps speeds, depending on the length of the runs and cable degradation
since installation it may be necessary to replace significant amount of the cabling to avoid
loss in connectivity and speed. Finally attributing to the cost will be the need for additional
switches, patch panels, routers and cabling in order to facilitate the segmentation of the
new network infrastructure proposed.
Despite the disadvantage of cost, upgrading the LAN backbone at each site would provide
the most direct and significant impact for business performance. Each location has between
25 and 50 employees utilizing computers and around 25 VOIP phones. Provided an
estimated required bandwidth of 5Mbps per VOIP phone the 100Mbps connection could be
completely saturated if all 25 phones where in use. Although this is unlikely, in combination
with bandwidth needs of the computers and other devices a 100mbps connection is simply
not enough. Through this upgrade, it is expected that employees will have better call quality
leading to less repetition as well as faster access to LAN services such and exchange, and
NAS. All of these small improvements result in significant increases in eficiency and
productivity.
The Albany location has a singular T2 connection to the WAN which provides its connectivity
to the corporate headquarters building. Inside the location there are 20 computers and a
printer wired into a 48 ports patch panel and then a 48 port switch, there is a 24 port switch
which provides connectivity to the manufacturing floor all cabling at this site is CATS. There
is a NAS, and local ERP server at this location to provide local data backup which is protected
by a UPS in case of power failure. There is a fiber connection between the local ERP server
and the NAS to facilitate faster data access. Finally there is firewall monitoring the T2 WAN
connection to provide some additional security to the local network. The Pontiac location is
very similarly built to the Albany location with the exception that it is a larger network. The
Pontiac location has 45 computers running the same Windows 7 and Ofice 2007 along with
4 printers.
Running a business in an ever forward moving technological world ensuring that a business
is is keeping up with technology has become critical to maintaining and improving business
performance. "The advancement of technology and the changing global business
environment have compelled the transformation of a warehouse" tiKumar et al., 2021, p.
3470). Utilizing enhances tools for tracking warehouse inventory, production and progress,
will move the business towards increased performance and eficiency as data transparency
increases. This increased insight into production and stocks will lead to increased
manufacturing eficiency while also reducing waste and cost through more informed
ordering of materials and supplies. Beyond these changes and advancements, simply
upgrading the equipment that is on site will greatly improve eficiency. Upgrading the
infrastructure to allow for greater data transfer speeds between employee computers and
local storage, means it takes less time to open and save documents saved on the local NAS,
increased backup speeds, less time waiting for calculations to occur and applications to
load. All of these time savings accumulate into increased eficiency and performance. Adding
new cloud based solution into the new IT infrastructure will allow for future growth in
business compute needs, as well as allowing for a tertiary data backup beyond the local and
main data storage locations at the corporate headquarters. This is another example of how
upgrading the infrastructure will allow for the business to become more productive by
taking advantage of additional tools like cloud computing. "Cloud computing information
centers give high extensibility, achievement, and approach to effective limitless computing
capacity to application suppliers" tiNazir et al. 2021, p. 3537)
Recommendations
The recommendation with the most significant impact will be migrating from
100baseTtilEEE 802.3u) to 1000baseT ti IEEE 802.3ab) and properly segmenting the
network. Based on the current state and structure of the network at each location the most
significant data bottleneck. Along with the data throughput there is also significant added
security risks to each network due to how they are structured and unsegmented.
The biggest advantages in migrating to a newer ethernet protocol and associated speed, will
be the improved data throughput. "However, the interconnection of dissimilar LANs and
devices over a high-speed backbone network can create congestion at a destination LAN
tioutput) gateway when more than one device or LAN attempt is made to communicate
simultaneously with the same device or LAN. We address the issue of congestion avoidance
in LANs interconnected by a high-speed backbone" tiHassanein 1997, p. 261). Through
migration to the 1000baseT standard and moving from a 100mbps to a 1000mbps
backbone, the ten fold increase in speed will prevent and or mitigate the majority of the
congestion. In combination with a network restructure to isolate like devices to their own
LAN, this will further prevent the congestion mentioned by Hassanein.
The most significant disadvantage to adopting this standard will be the cost and time
involved with such an upgrade. If building a new network there would not be a significant
difference in cost as most all newer devices have already adopted 1000baseT standard for
network connectivity. When considering International Plastics Inc. it may prove necessary to
not only upgrade and replace all switches, and routers, it may also be necessary to replace
some or all of the workstation computers if they do not have 1000baseT network cards or
purchase cards for each device. Additionally, even though CAT5 cabling is capable of
delivering 1000mbps speeds, depending on the length of the runs and cable degradation
since installation it may be necessary to replace significant amount of the cabling to avoid
loss in connectivity and speed. Finally attributing to the cost will be the need for additional
switches, patch panels, routers and cabling in order to facilitate the segmentation of the
new network infrastructure proposed.
Despite the disadvantage of cost, upgrading the LAN backbone at each site would provide
the most direct and significant impact for business performance. Each location has between
25 and 50 employees utilizing computers and around 25 VOIP phones. Provided an
estimated required bandwidth of 5Mbps per VOIP phone the 100Mbps connection could be
completely saturated if all 25 phones where in use. Although this is unlikely, in combination
with bandwidth needs of the computers and other devices a 100mbps connection is simply
not enough. Through this upgrade, it is expected that employees will have better call quality
leading to less repetition as well as faster access to LAN services such and exchange, and
NAS. All of these small improvements result in significant increases in eficiency and
productivity.
The Albany location has a singular T2 connection to the WAN which provides its connectivity
to the corporate headquarters building. Inside the location there are 20 computers and a
printer wired into a 48 ports patch panel and then a 48 port switch, there is a 24 port switch
which provides connectivity to the manufacturing floor all cabling at this site is CATS. There
is a NAS, and local ERP server at this location to provide local data backup which is protected
by a UPS in case of power failure. There is a fiber connection between the local ERP server
and the NAS to facilitate faster data access. Finally there is firewall monitoring the T2 WAN
connection to provide some additional security to the local network. The Pontiac location is
very similarly built to the Albany location with the exception that it is a larger network. The
Pontiac location has 45 computers running the same Windows 7 and Ofice 2007 along with
4 printers.
Running a business in an ever forward moving technological world ensuring that a business
is is keeping up with technology has become critical to maintaining and improving business
performance. "The advancement of technology and the changing global business
environment have compelled the transformation of a warehouse" tiKumar et al., 2021, p.
3470). Utilizing enhances tools for tracking warehouse inventory, production and progress,
will move the business towards increased performance and eficiency as data transparency
increases. This increased insight into production and stocks will lead to increased
manufacturing eficiency while also reducing waste and cost through more informed
ordering of materials and supplies. Beyond these changes and advancements, simply
upgrading the equipment that is on site will greatly improve eficiency. Upgrading the
infrastructure to allow for greater data transfer speeds between employee computers and
local storage, means it takes less time to open and save documents saved on the local NAS,
increased backup speeds, less time waiting for calculations to occur and applications to
load. All of these time savings accumulate into increased eficiency and performance. Adding
new cloud based solution into the new IT infrastructure will allow for future growth in
business compute needs, as well as allowing for a tertiary data backup beyond the local and
main data storage locations at the corporate headquarters. This is another example of how
upgrading the infrastructure will allow for the business to become more productive by
taking advantage of additional tools like cloud computing. "Cloud computing information
centers give high extensibility, achievement, and approach to effective limitless computing
capacity to application suppliers" tiNazir et al. 2021, p. 3537)
Recommendations
The recommendation with the most significant impact will be migrating from
100baseTtilEEE 802.3u) to 1000baseT ti IEEE 802.3ab) and properly segmenting the
network. Based on the current state and structure of the network at each location the most
significant data bottleneck. Along with the data throughput there is also significant added
security risks to each network due to how they are structured and unsegmented.
The biggest advantages in migrating to a newer ethernet protocol and associated speed, will
be the improved data throughput. "However, the interconnection of dissimilar LANs and
devices over a high-speed backbone network can create congestion at a destination LAN
tioutput) gateway when more than one device or LAN attempt is made to communicate
simultaneously with the same device or LAN. We address the issue of congestion avoidance
in LANs interconnected by a high-speed backbone" tiHassanein 1997, p. 261). Through
migration to the 1000baseT standard and moving from a 100mbps to a 1000mbps
backbone, the ten fold increase in speed will prevent and or mitigate the majority of the
congestion. In combination with a network restructure to isolate like devices to their own
LAN, this will further prevent the congestion mentioned by Hassanein.
The most significant disadvantage to adopting this standard will be the cost and time
involved with such an upgrade. If building a new network there would not be a significant
difference in cost as most all newer devices have already adopted 1000baseT standard for
network connectivity. When considering International Plastics Inc. it may prove necessary to
not only upgrade and replace all switches, and routers, it may also be necessary to replace
some or all of the workstation computers if they do not have 1000baseT network cards or
purchase cards for each device. Additionally, even though CAT5 cabling is capable of
delivering 1000mbps speeds, depending on the length of the runs and cable degradation
since installation it may be necessary to replace significant amount of the cabling to avoid
loss in connectivity and speed. Finally attributing to the cost will be the need for additional
switches, patch panels, routers and cabling in order to facilitate the segmentation of the
new network infrastructure proposed.
Despite the disadvantage of cost, upgrading the LAN backbone at each site would provide
the most direct and significant impact for business performance. Each location has between
25 and 50 employees utilizing computers and around 25 VOIP phones. Provided an
estimated required bandwidth of 5Mbps per VOIP phone the 100Mbps connection could be
completely saturated if all 25 phones where in use. Although this is unlikely, in combination
with bandwidth needs of the computers and other devices a 100mbps connection is simply
not enough. Through this upgrade, it is expected that employees will have better call quality
leading to less repetition as well as faster access to LAN services such and exchange, and
NAS. All of these small improvements result in significant increases in eficiency and
productivity.
The Albany location has a singular T2 connection to the WAN which provides its connectivity
to the corporate headquarters building. Inside the location there are 20 computers and a
printer wired into a 48 ports patch panel and then a 48 port switch, there is a 24 port switch
which provides connectivity to the manufacturing floor all cabling at this site is CATS. There
is a NAS, and local ERP server at this location to provide local data backup which is protected
by a UPS in case of power failure. There is a fiber connection between the local ERP server
and the NAS to facilitate faster data access. Finally there is firewall monitoring the T2 WAN
connection to provide some additional security to the local network. The Pontiac location is
very similarly built to the Albany location with the exception that it is a larger network. The
Pontiac location has 45 computers running the same Windows 7 and Ofice 2007 along with
4 printers.
Running a business in an ever forward moving technological world ensuring that a business
is is keeping up with technology has become critical to maintaining and improving business
performance. "The advancement of technology and the changing global business
environment have compelled the transformation of a warehouse" tiKumar et al., 2021, p.
3470). Utilizing enhances tools for tracking warehouse inventory, production and progress,
will move the business towards increased performance and eficiency as data transparency
increases. This increased insight into production and stocks will lead to increased
manufacturing eficiency while also reducing waste and cost through more informed
ordering of materials and supplies. Beyond these changes and advancements, simply
upgrading the equipment that is on site will greatly improve eficiency. Upgrading the
infrastructure to allow for greater data transfer speeds between employee computers and
local storage, means it takes less time to open and save documents saved on the local NAS,
increased backup speeds, less time waiting for calculations to occur and applications to
load. All of these time savings accumulate into increased eficiency and performance. Adding
new cloud based solution into the new IT infrastructure will allow for future growth in
business compute needs, as well as allowing for a tertiary data backup beyond the local and
main data storage locations at the corporate headquarters. This is another example of how
upgrading the infrastructure will allow for the business to become more productive by
taking advantage of additional tools like cloud computing. "Cloud computing information
centers give high extensibility, achievement, and approach to effective limitless computing
capacity to application suppliers" tiNazir et al. 2021, p. 3537)
Recommendations
The recommendation with the most significant impact will be migrating from
100baseTtilEEE 802.3u) to 1000baseT ti IEEE 802.3ab) and properly segmenting the
network. Based on the current state and structure of the network at each location the most
significant data bottleneck. Along with the data throughput there is also significant added
security risks to each network due to how they are structured and unsegmented.
The biggest advantages in migrating to a newer ethernet protocol and associated speed, will
be the improved data throughput. "However, the interconnection of dissimilar LANs and
devices over a high-speed backbone network can create congestion at a destination LAN
tioutput) gateway when more than one device or LAN attempt is made to communicate
simultaneously with the same device or LAN. We address the issue of congestion avoidance
in LANs interconnected by a high-speed backbone" tiHassanein 1997, p. 261). Through
migration to the 1000baseT standard and moving from a 100mbps to a 1000mbps
backbone, the ten fold increase in speed will prevent and or mitigate the majority of the
congestion. In combination with a network restructure to isolate like devices to their own
LAN, this will further prevent the congestion mentioned by Hassanein.
The most significant disadvantage to adopting this standard will be the cost and time
involved with such an upgrade. If building a new network there would not be a significant
difference in cost as most all newer devices have already adopted 1000baseT standard for
network connectivity. When considering International Plastics Inc. it may prove necessary to
not only upgrade and replace all switches, and routers, it may also be necessary to replace
some or all of the workstation computers if they do not have 1000baseT network cards or
purchase cards for each device. Additionally, even though CAT5 cabling is capable of
delivering 1000mbps speeds, depending on the length of the runs and cable degradation
since installation it may be necessary to replace significant amount of the cabling to avoid
loss in connectivity and speed. Finally attributing to the cost will be the need for additional
switches, patch panels, routers and cabling in order to facilitate the segmentation of the
new network infrastructure proposed.
Despite the disadvantage of cost, upgrading the LAN backbone at each site would provide
the most direct and significant impact for business performance. Each location has between
25 and 50 employees utilizing computers and around 25 VOIP phones. Provided an
estimated required bandwidth of 5Mbps per VOIP phone the 100Mbps connection could be
completely saturated if all 25 phones where in use. Although this is unlikely, in combination
with bandwidth needs of the computers and other devices a 100mbps connection is simply
not enough. Through this upgrade, it is expected that employees will have better call quality
leading to less repetition as well as faster access to LAN services such and exchange, and
NAS. All of these small improvements result in significant increases in eficiency and
productivity.
The Albany location has a singular T2 connection to the WAN which provides its connectivity
to the corporate headquarters building. Inside the location there are 20 computers and a
printer wired into a 48 ports patch panel and then a 48 port switch, there is a 24 port switch
which provides connectivity to the manufacturing floor all cabling at this site is CATS. There
is a NAS, and local ERP server at this location to provide local data backup which is protected
by a UPS in case of power failure. There is a fiber connection between the local ERP server
and the NAS to facilitate faster data access. Finally there is firewall monitoring the T2 WAN
connection to provide some additional security to the local network. The Pontiac location is
very similarly built to the Albany location with the exception that it is a larger network. The
Pontiac location has 45 computers running the same Windows 7 and Ofice 2007 along with
4 printers.
Running a business in an ever forward moving technological world ensuring that a business
is is keeping up with technology has become critical to maintaining and improving business
performance. "The advancement of technology and the changing global business
environment have compelled the transformation of a warehouse" tiKumar et al., 2021, p.
3470). Utilizing enhances tools for tracking warehouse inventory, production and progress,
will move the business towards increased performance and eficiency as data transparency
increases. This increased insight into production and stocks will lead to increased
manufacturing eficiency while also reducing waste and cost through more informed
ordering of materials and supplies. Beyond these changes and advancements, simply
upgrading the equipment that is on site will greatly improve eficiency. Upgrading the
infrastructure to allow for greater data transfer speeds between employee computers and
local storage, means it takes less time to open and save documents saved on the local NAS,
increased backup speeds, less time waiting for calculations to occur and applications to
load. All of these time savings accumulate into increased eficiency and performance. Adding
new cloud based solution into the new IT infrastructure will allow for future growth in
business compute needs, as well as allowing for a tertiary data backup beyond the local and
main data storage locations at the corporate headquarters. This is another example of how
upgrading the infrastructure will allow for the business to become more productive by
taking advantage of additional tools like cloud computing. "Cloud computing information
centers give high extensibility, achievement, and approach to effective limitless computing
capacity to application suppliers" tiNazir et al. 2021, p. 3537)
Recommendations
The recommendation with the most significant impact will be migrating from
100baseTtilEEE 802.3u) to 1000baseT ti IEEE 802.3ab) and properly segmenting the
network. Based on the current state and structure of the network at each location the most
significant data bottleneck. Along with the data throughput there is also significant added
security risks to each network due to how they are structured and unsegmented.
The biggest advantages in migrating to a newer ethernet protocol and associated speed, will
be the improved data throughput. "However, the interconnection of dissimilar LANs and
devices over a high-speed backbone network can create congestion at a destination LAN
tioutput) gateway when more than one device or LAN attempt is made to communicate
simultaneously with the same device or LAN. We address the issue of congestion avoidance
in LANs interconnected by a high-speed backbone" tiHassanein 1997, p. 261). Through
migration to the 1000baseT standard and moving from a 100mbps to a 1000mbps
backbone, the ten fold increase in speed will prevent and or mitigate the majority of the
congestion. In combination with a network restructure to isolate like devices to their own
LAN, this will further prevent the congestion mentioned by Hassanein.
The most significant disadvantage to adopting this standard will be the cost and time
involved with such an upgrade. If building a new network there would not be a significant
difference in cost as most all newer devices have already adopted 1000baseT standard for
network connectivity. When considering International Plastics Inc. it may prove necessary to
not only upgrade and replace all switches, and routers, it may also be necessary to replace
some or all of the workstation computers if they do not have 1000baseT network cards or
purchase cards for each device. Additionally, even though CAT5 cabling is capable of
delivering 1000mbps speeds, depending on the length of the runs and cable degradation
since installation it may be necessary to replace significant amount of the cabling to avoid
loss in connectivity and speed. Finally attributing to the cost will be the need for additional
switches, patch panels, routers and cabling in order to facilitate the segmentation of the
new network infrastructure proposed.
Despite the disadvantage of cost, upgrading the LAN backbone at each site would provide
the most direct and significant impact for business performance. Each location has between
25 and 50 employees utilizing computers and around 25 VOIP phones. Provided an
estimated required bandwidth of 5Mbps per VOIP phone the 100Mbps connection could be
completely saturated if all 25 phones where in use. Although this is unlikely, in combination
with bandwidth needs of the computers and other devices a 100mbps connection is simply
not enough. Through this upgrade, it is expected that employees will have better call quality
leading to less repetition as well as faster access to LAN services such and exchange, and
NAS. All of these small improvements result in significant increases in eficiency and
productivity.
The Albany location has a singular T2 connection to the WAN which provides its connectivity
to the corporate headquarters building. Inside the location there are 20 computers and a
printer wired into a 48 ports patch panel and then a 48 port switch, there is a 24 port switch
which provides connectivity to the manufacturing floor all cabling at this site is CATS. There
is a NAS, and local ERP server at this location to provide local data backup which is protected
by a UPS in case of power failure. There is a fiber connection between the local ERP server
and the NAS to facilitate faster data access. Finally there is firewall monitoring the T2 WAN
connection to provide some additional security to the local network. The Pontiac location is
very similarly built to the Albany location with the exception that it is a larger network. The
Pontiac location has 45 computers running the same Windows 7 and Ofice 2007 along with
4 printers.
Running a business in an ever forward moving technological world ensuring that a business
is is keeping up with technology has become critical to maintaining and improving business
performance. "The advancement of technology and the changing global business
environment have compelled the transformation of a warehouse" tiKumar et al., 2021, p.
3470). Utilizing enhances tools for tracking warehouse inventory, production and progress,
will move the business towards increased performance and eficiency as data transparency
increases. This increased insight into production and stocks will lead to increased
manufacturing eficiency while also reducing waste and cost through more informed
ordering of materials and supplies. Beyond these changes and advancements, simply
upgrading the equipment that is on site will greatly improve eficiency. Upgrading the
infrastructure to allow for greater data transfer speeds between employee computers and
local storage, means it takes less time to open and save documents saved on the local NAS,
increased backup speeds, less time waiting for calculations to occur and applications to
load. All of these time savings accumulate into increased eficiency and performance. Adding
new cloud based solution into the new IT infrastructure will allow for future growth in
business compute needs, as well as allowing for a tertiary data backup beyond the local and
main data storage locations at the corporate headquarters. This is another example of how
upgrading the infrastructure will allow for the business to become more productive by
taking advantage of additional tools like cloud computing. "Cloud computing information
centers give high extensibility, achievement, and approach to effective limitless computing
capacity to application suppliers" tiNazir et al. 2021, p. 3537)
Recommendations
The recommendation with the most significant impact will be migrating from
100baseTtilEEE 802.3u) to 1000baseT ti IEEE 802.3ab) and properly segmenting the
network. Based on the current state and structure of the network at each location the most
significant data bottleneck. Along with the data throughput there is also significant added
security risks to each network due to how they are structured and unsegmented.
The biggest advantages in migrating to a newer ethernet protocol and associated speed, will
be the improved data throughput. "However, the interconnection of dissimilar LANs and
devices over a high-speed backbone network can create congestion at a destination LAN
tioutput) gateway when more than one device or LAN attempt is made to communicate
simultaneously with the same device or LAN. We address the issue of congestion avoidance
in LANs interconnected by a high-speed backbone" tiHassanein 1997, p. 261). Through
migration to the 1000baseT standard and moving from a 100mbps to a 1000mbps
backbone, the ten fold increase in speed will prevent and or mitigate the majority of the
congestion. In combination with a network restructure to isolate like devices to their own
LAN, this will further prevent the congestion mentioned by Hassanein.
The most significant disadvantage to adopting this standard will be the cost and time
involved with such an upgrade. If building a new network there would not be a significant
difference in cost as most all newer devices have already adopted 1000baseT standard for
network connectivity. When considering International Plastics Inc. it may prove necessary to
not only upgrade and replace all switches, and routers, it may also be necessary to replace
some or all of the workstation computers if they do not have 1000baseT network cards or
purchase cards for each device. Additionally, even though CAT5 cabling is capable of
delivering 1000mbps speeds, depending on the length of the runs and cable degradation
since installation it may be necessary to replace significant amount of the cabling to avoid
loss in connectivity and speed. Finally attributing to the cost will be the need for additional
switches, patch panels, routers and cabling in order to facilitate the segmentation of the
new network infrastructure proposed.
Despite the disadvantage of cost, upgrading the LAN backbone at each site would provide
the most direct and significant impact for business performance. Each location has between
25 and 50 employees utilizing computers and around 25 VOIP phones. Provided an
estimated required bandwidth of 5Mbps per VOIP phone the 100Mbps connection could be
completely saturated if all 25 phones where in use. Although this is unlikely, in combination
with bandwidth needs of the computers and other devices a 100mbps connection is simply
not enough. Through this upgrade, it is expected that employees will have better call quality
leading to less repetition as well as faster access to LAN services such and exchange, and
NAS. All of these small improvements result in significant increases in eficiency and
productivity.
The Albany location has a singular T2 connection to the WAN which provides its connectivity
to the corporate headquarters building. Inside the location there are 20 computers and a
printer wired into a 48 ports patch panel and then a 48 port switch, there is a 24 port switch
which provides connectivity to the manufacturing floor all cabling at this site is CATS. There
is a NAS, and local ERP server at this location to provide local data backup which is protected
by a UPS in case of power failure. There is a fiber connection between the local ERP server
and the NAS to facilitate faster data access. Finally there is firewall monitoring the T2 WAN
connection to provide some additional security to the local network. The Pontiac location is
very similarly built to the Albany location with the exception that it is a larger network. The
Pontiac location has 45 computers running the same Windows 7 and Ofice 2007 along with
4 printers.
Running a business in an ever forward moving technological world ensuring that a business
is is keeping up with technology has become critical to maintaining and improving business
performance. "The advancement of technology and the changing global business
environment have compelled the transformation of a warehouse" tiKumar et al., 2021, p.
3470). Utilizing enhances tools for tracking warehouse inventory, production and progress,
will move the business towards increased performance and eficiency as data transparency
increases. This increased insight into production and stocks will lead to increased
manufacturing eficiency while also reducing waste and cost through more informed
ordering of materials and supplies. Beyond these changes and advancements, simply
upgrading the equipment that is on site will greatly improve eficiency. Upgrading the
infrastructure to allow for greater data transfer speeds between employee computers and
local storage, means it takes less time to open and save documents saved on the local NAS,
increased backup speeds, less time waiting for calculations to occur and applications to
load. All of these time savings accumulate into increased eficiency and performance. Adding
new cloud based solution into the new IT infrastructure will allow for future growth in
business compute needs, as well as allowing for a tertiary data backup beyond the local and
main data storage locations at the corporate headquarters. This is another example of how
upgrading the infrastructure will allow for the business to become more productive by
taking advantage of additional tools like cloud computing. "Cloud computing information
centers give high extensibility, achievement, and approach to effective limitless computing
capacity to application suppliers" tiNazir et al. 2021, p. 3537)
Recommendations
The recommendation with the most significant impact will be migrating from
100baseTtilEEE 802.3u) to 1000baseT ti IEEE 802.3ab) and properly segmenting the
network. Based on the current state and structure of the network at each location the most
significant data bottleneck. Along with the data throughput there is also significant added
security risks to each network due to how they are structured and unsegmented.
The biggest advantages in migrating to a newer ethernet protocol and associated speed, will
be the improved data throughput. "However, the interconnection of dissimilar LANs and
devices over a high-speed backbone network can create congestion at a destination LAN
tioutput) gateway when more than one device or LAN attempt is made to communicate
simultaneously with the same device or LAN. We address the issue of congestion avoidance
in LANs interconnected by a high-speed backbone" tiHassanein 1997, p. 261). Through
migration to the 1000baseT standard and moving from a 100mbps to a 1000mbps
backbone, the ten fold increase in speed will prevent and or mitigate the majority of the
congestion. In combination with a network restructure to isolate like devices to their own
LAN, this will further prevent the congestion mentioned by Hassanein.
The most significant disadvantage to adopting this standard will be the cost and time
involved with such an upgrade. If building a new network there would not be a significant
difference in cost as most all newer devices have already adopted 1000baseT standard for
network connectivity. When considering International Plastics Inc. it may prove necessary to
not only upgrade and replace all switches, and routers, it may also be necessary to replace
some or all of the workstation computers if they do not have 1000baseT network cards or
purchase cards for each device. Additionally, even though CAT5 cabling is capable of
delivering 1000mbps speeds, depending on the length of the runs and cable degradation
since installation it may be necessary to replace significant amount of the cabling to avoid
loss in connectivity and speed. Finally attributing to the cost will be the need for additional
switches, patch panels, routers and cabling in order to facilitate the segmentation of the
new network infrastructure proposed.
Despite the disadvantage of cost, upgrading the LAN backbone at each site would provide
the most direct and significant impact for business performance. Each location has between
25 and 50 employees utilizing computers and around 25 VOIP phones. Provided an
estimated required bandwidth of 5Mbps per VOIP phone the 100Mbps connection could be
completely saturated if all 25 phones where in use. Although this is unlikely, in combination
with bandwidth needs of the computers and other devices a 100mbps connection is simply
not enough. Through this upgrade, it is expected that employees will have better call quality
leading to less repetition as well as faster access to LAN services such and exchange, and
NAS. All of these small improvements result in significant increases in eficiency and
productivity.
The Albany location has a singular T2 connection to the WAN which provides its connectivity
to the corporate headquarters building. Inside the location there are 20 computers and a
printer wired into a 48 ports patch panel and then a 48 port switch, there is a 24 port switch
which provides connectivity to the manufacturing floor all cabling at this site is CATS. There
is a NAS, and local ERP server at this location to provide local data backup which is protected
by a UPS in case of power failure. There is a fiber connection between the local ERP server
and the NAS to facilitate faster data access. Finally there is firewall monitoring the T2 WAN
connection to provide some additional security to the local network. The Pontiac location is
very similarly built to the Albany location with the exception that it is a larger network. The
Pontiac location has 45 computers running the same Windows 7 and Ofice 2007 along with
4 printers.
Running a business in an ever forward moving technological world ensuring that a business
is is keeping up with technology has become critical to maintaining and improving business
performance. "The advancement of technology and the changing global business
environment have compelled the transformation of a warehouse" tiKumar et al., 2021, p.
3470). Utilizing enhances tools for tracking warehouse inventory, production and progress,
will move the business towards increased performance and eficiency as data transparency
increases. This increased insight into production and stocks will lead to increased
manufacturing eficiency while also reducing waste and cost through more informed
ordering of materials and supplies. Beyond these changes and advancements, simply
upgrading the equipment that is on site will greatly improve eficiency. Upgrading the
infrastructure to allow for greater data transfer speeds between employee computers and
local storage, means it takes less time to open and save documents saved on the local NAS,
increased backup speeds, less time waiting for calculations to occur and applications to
load. All of these time savings accumulate into increased eficiency and performance. Adding
new cloud based solution into the new IT infrastructure will allow for future growth in
business compute needs, as well as allowing for a tertiary data backup beyond the local and
main data storage locations at the corporate headquarters. This is another example of how
upgrading the infrastructure will allow for the business to become more productive by
taking advantage of additional tools like cloud computing. "Cloud computing information
centers give high extensibility, achievement, and approach to effective limitless computing
capacity to application suppliers" tiNazir et al. 2021, p. 3537)
Recommendations
The recommendation with the most significant impact will be migrating from
100baseTtilEEE 802.3u) to 1000baseT ti IEEE 802.3ab) and properly segmenting the
network. Based on the current state and structure of the network at each location the most
significant data bottleneck. Along with the data throughput there is also significant added
security risks to each network due to how they are structured and unsegmented.
The biggest advantages in migrating to a newer ethernet protocol and associated speed, will
be the improved data throughput. "However, the interconnection of dissimilar LANs and
devices over a high-speed backbone network can create congestion at a destination LAN
tioutput) gateway when more than one device or LAN attempt is made to communicate
simultaneously with the same device or LAN. We address the issue of congestion avoidance
in LANs interconnected by a high-speed backbone" tiHassanein 1997, p. 261). Through
migration to the 1000baseT standard and moving from a 100mbps to a 1000mbps
backbone, the ten fold increase in speed will prevent and or mitigate the majority of the
congestion. In combination with a network restructure to isolate like devices to their own
LAN, this will further prevent the congestion mentioned by Hassanein.
The most significant disadvantage to adopting this standard will be the cost and time
involved with such an upgrade. If building a new network there would not be a significant
difference in cost as most all newer devices have already adopted 1000baseT standard for
network connectivity. When considering International Plastics Inc. it may prove necessary to
not only upgrade and replace all switches, and routers, it may also be necessary to replace
some or all of the workstation computers if they do not have 1000baseT network cards or
purchase cards for each device. Additionally, even though CAT5 cabling is capable of
delivering 1000mbps speeds, depending on the length of the runs and cable degradation
since installation it may be necessary to replace significant amount of the cabling to avoid
loss in connectivity and speed. Finally attributing to the cost will be the need for additional
switches, patch panels, routers and cabling in order to facilitate the segmentation of the
new network infrastructure proposed.
Despite the disadvantage of cost, upgrading the LAN backbone at each site would provide
the most direct and significant impact for business performance. Each location has between
25 and 50 employees utilizing computers and around 25 VOIP phones. Provided an
estimated required bandwidth of 5Mbps per VOIP phone the 100Mbps connection could be
completely saturated if all 25 phones where in use. Although this is unlikely, in combination
with bandwidth needs of the computers and other devices a 100mbps connection is simply
not enough. Through this upgrade, it is expected that employees will have better call quality
leading to less repetition as well as faster access to LAN services such and exchange, and
NAS. All of these small improvements result in significant increases in eficiency and
productivity.
The Albany location has a singular T2 connection to the WAN which provides its connectivity
to the corporate headquarters building. Inside the location there are 20 computers and a
printer wired into a 48 ports patch panel and then a 48 port switch, there is a 24 port switch
which provides connectivity to the manufacturing floor all cabling at this site is CATS. There
is a NAS, and local ERP server at this location to provide local data backup which is protected
by a UPS in case of power failure. There is a fiber connection between the local ERP server
and the NAS to facilitate faster data access. Finally there is firewall monitoring the T2 WAN
connection to provide some additional security to the local network. The Pontiac location is
very similarly built to the Albany location with the exception that it is a larger network. The
Pontiac location has 45 computers running the same Windows 7 and Ofice 2007 along with
4 printers.
Running a business in an ever forward moving technological world ensuring that a business
is is keeping up with technology has become critical to maintaining and improving business
performance. "The advancement of technology and the changing global business
environment have compelled the transformation of a warehouse" tiKumar et al., 2021, p.
3470). Utilizing enhances tools for tracking warehouse inventory, production and progress,
will move the business towards increased performance and eficiency as data transparency
increases. This increased insight into production and stocks will lead to increased
manufacturing eficiency while also reducing waste and cost through more informed
ordering of materials and supplies. Beyond these changes and advancements, simply
upgrading the equipment that is on site will greatly improve eficiency. Upgrading the
infrastructure to allow for greater data transfer speeds between employee computers and
local storage, means it takes less time to open and save documents saved on the local NAS,
increased backup speeds, less time waiting for calculations to occur and applications to
load. All of these time savings accumulate into increased eficiency and performance. Adding
new cloud based solution into the new IT infrastructure will allow for future growth in
business compute needs, as well as allowing for a tertiary data backup beyond the local and
main data storage locations at the corporate headquarters. This is another example of how
upgrading the infrastructure will allow for the business to become more productive by
taking advantage of additional tools like cloud computing. "Cloud computing information
centers give high extensibility, achievement, and approach to effective limitless computing
capacity to application suppliers" tiNazir et al. 2021, p. 3537)
Recommendations
The recommendation with the most significant impact will be migrating from
100baseTtilEEE 802.3u) to 1000baseT ti IEEE 802.3ab) and properly segmenting the
network. Based on the current state and structure of the network at each location the most
significant data bottleneck. Along with the data throughput there is also significant added
security risks to each network due to how they are structured and unsegmented.
The biggest advantages in migrating to a newer ethernet protocol and associated speed, will
be the improved data throughput. "However, the interconnection of dissimilar LANs and
devices over a high-speed backbone network can create congestion at a destination LAN
tioutput) gateway when more than one device or LAN attempt is made to communicate
simultaneously with the same device or LAN. We address the issue of congestion avoidance
in LANs interconnected by a high-speed backbone" tiHassanein 1997, p. 261). Through
migration to the 1000baseT standard and moving from a 100mbps to a 1000mbps
backbone, the ten fold increase in speed will prevent and or mitigate the majority of the
congestion. In combination with a network restructure to isolate like devices to their own
LAN, this will further prevent the congestion mentioned by Hassanein.
The most significant disadvantage to adopting this standard will be the cost and time
involved with such an upgrade. If building a new network there would not be a significant
difference in cost as most all newer devices have already adopted 1000baseT standard for
network connectivity. When considering International Plastics Inc. it may prove necessary to
not only upgrade and replace all switches, and routers, it may also be necessary to replace
some or all of the workstation computers if they do not have 1000baseT network cards or
purchase cards for each device. Additionally, even though CAT5 cabling is capable of
delivering 1000mbps speeds, depending on the length of the runs and cable degradation
since installation it may be necessary to replace significant amount of the cabling to avoid
loss in connectivity and speed. Finally attributing to the cost will be the need for additional
switches, patch panels, routers and cabling in order to facilitate the segmentation of the
new network infrastructure proposed.
Despite the disadvantage of cost, upgrading the LAN backbone at each site would provide
the most direct and significant impact for business performance. Each location has between
25 and 50 employees utilizing computers and around 25 VOIP phones. Provided an
estimated required bandwidth of 5Mbps per VOIP phone the 100Mbps connection could be
completely saturated if all 25 phones where in use. Although this is unlikely, in combination
with bandwidth needs of the computers and other devices a 100mbps connection is simply
not enough. Through this upgrade, it is expected that employees will have better call quality
leading to less repetition as well as faster access to LAN services such and exchange, and
NAS. All of these small improvements result in significant increases in eficiency and
productivity.
The Albany location has a singular T2 connection to the WAN which provides its connectivity
to the corporate headquarters building. Inside the location there are 20 computers and a
printer wired into a 48 ports patch panel and then a 48 port switch, there is a 24 port switch
which provides connectivity to the manufacturing floor all cabling at this site is CATS. There
is a NAS, and local ERP server at this location to provide local data backup which is protected
by a UPS in case of power failure. There is a fiber connection between the local ERP server
and the NAS to facilitate faster data access. Finally there is firewall monitoring the T2 WAN
connection to provide some additional security to the local network. The Pontiac location is
very similarly built to the Albany location with the exception that it is a larger network. The
Pontiac location has 45 computers running the same Windows 7 and Ofice 2007 along with
4 printers.
Running a business in an ever forward moving technological world ensuring that a business
is is keeping up with technology has become critical to maintaining and improving business
performance. "The advancement of technology and the changing global business
environment have compelled the transformation of a warehouse" tiKumar et al., 2021, p.
3470). Utilizing enhances tools for tracking warehouse inventory, production and progress,
will move the business towards increased performance and eficiency as data transparency
increases. This increased insight into production and stocks will lead to increased
manufacturing eficiency while also reducing waste and cost through more informed
ordering of materials and supplies. Beyond these changes and advancements, simply
upgrading the equipment that is on site will greatly improve eficiency. Upgrading the
infrastructure to allow for greater data transfer speeds between employee computers and
local storage, means it takes less time to open and save documents saved on the local NAS,
increased backup speeds, less time waiting for calculations to occur and applications to
load. All of these time savings accumulate into increased eficiency and performance. Adding
new cloud based solution into the new IT infrastructure will allow for future growth in
business compute needs, as well as allowing for a tertiary data backup beyond the local and
main data storage locations at the corporate headquarters. This is another example of how
upgrading the infrastructure will allow for the business to become more productive by
taking advantage of additional tools like cloud computing. "Cloud computing information
centers give high extensibility, achievement, and approach to effective limitless computing
capacity to application suppliers" tiNazir et al. 2021, p. 3537)
Recommendations
The recommendation with the most significant impact will be migrating from
100baseTtilEEE 802.3u) to 1000baseT ti IEEE 802.3ab) and properly segmenting the
network. Based on the current state and structure of the network at each location the most
significant data bottleneck. Along with the data throughput there is also significant added
security risks to each network due to how they are structured and unsegmented.
The biggest advantages in migrating to a newer ethernet protocol and associated speed, will
be the improved data throughput. "However, the interconnection of dissimilar LANs and
devices over a high-speed backbone network can create congestion at a destination LAN
tioutput) gateway when more than one device or LAN attempt is made to communicate
simultaneously with the same device or LAN. We address the issue of congestion avoidance
in LANs interconnected by a high-speed backbone" tiHassanein 1997, p. 261). Through
migration to the 1000baseT standard and moving from a 100mbps to a 1000mbps
backbone, the ten fold increase in speed will prevent and or mitigate the majority of the
congestion. In combination with a network restructure to isolate like devices to their own
LAN, this will further prevent the congestion mentioned by Hassanein.
The most significant disadvantage to adopting this standard will be the cost and time
involved with such an upgrade. If building a new network there would not be a significant
difference in cost as most all newer devices have already adopted 1000baseT standard for
network connectivity. When considering International Plastics Inc. it may prove necessary to
not only upgrade and replace all switches, and routers, it may also be necessary to replace
some or all of the workstation computers if they do not have 1000baseT network cards or
purchase cards for each device. Additionally, even though CAT5 cabling is capable of
delivering 1000mbps speeds, depending on the length of the runs and cable degradation
since installation it may be necessary to replace significant amount of the cabling to avoid
loss in connectivity and speed. Finally attributing to the cost will be the need for additional
switches, patch panels, routers and cabling in order to facilitate the segmentation of the
new network infrastructure proposed.
Despite the disadvantage of cost, upgrading the LAN backbone at each site would provide
the most direct and significant impact for business performance. Each location has between
25 and 50 employees utilizing computers and around 25 VOIP phones. Provided an
estimated required bandwidth of 5Mbps per VOIP phone the 100Mbps connection could be
completely saturated if all 25 phones where in use. Although this is unlikely, in combination
with bandwidth needs of the computers and other devices a 100mbps connection is simply
not enough. Through this upgrade, it is expected that employees will have better call quality
leading to less repetition as well as faster access to LAN services such and exchange, and
NAS. All of these small improvements result in significant increases in eficiency and
productivity.
The Albany location has a singular T2 connection to the WAN which provides its connectivity
to the corporate headquarters building. Inside the location there are 20 computers and a
printer wired into a 48 ports patch panel and then a 48 port switch, there is a 24 port switch
which provides connectivity to the manufacturing floor all cabling at this site is CATS. There
is a NAS, and local ERP server at this location to provide local data backup which is protected
by a UPS in case of power failure. There is a fiber connection between the local ERP server
and the NAS to facilitate faster data access. Finally there is firewall monitoring the T2 WAN
connection to provide some additional security to the local network. The Pontiac location is
very similarly built to the Albany location with the exception that it is a larger network. The
Pontiac location has 45 computers running the same Windows 7 and Ofice 2007 along with
4 printers.
Running a business in an ever forward moving technological world ensuring that a business
is is keeping up with technology has become critical to maintaining and improving business
performance. "The advancement of technology and the changing global business
environment have compelled the transformation of a warehouse" tiKumar et al., 2021, p.
3470). Utilizing enhances tools for tracking warehouse inventory, production and progress,
will move the business towards increased performance and eficiency as data transparency
increases. This increased insight into production and stocks will lead to increased
manufacturing eficiency while also reducing waste and cost through more informed
ordering of materials and supplies. Beyond these changes and advancements, simply
upgrading the equipment that is on site will greatly improve eficiency. Upgrading the
infrastructure to allow for greater data transfer speeds between employee computers and
local storage, means it takes less time to open and save documents saved on the local NAS,
increased backup speeds, less time waiting for calculations to occur and applications to
load. All of these time savings accumulate into increased eficiency and performance. Adding
new cloud based solution into the new IT infrastructure will allow for future growth in
business compute needs, as well as allowing for a tertiary data backup beyond the local and
main data storage locations at the corporate headquarters. This is another example of how
upgrading the infrastructure will allow for the business to become more productive by
taking advantage of additional tools like cloud computing. "Cloud computing information
centers give high extensibility, achievement, and approach to effective limitless computing
capacity to application suppliers" tiNazir et al. 2021, p. 3537)
Recommendations
The recommendation with the most significant impact will be migrating from
100baseTtilEEE 802.3u) to 1000baseT ti IEEE 802.3ab) and properly segmenting the
network. Based on the current state and structure of the network at each location the most
significant data bottleneck. Along with the data throughput there is also significant added
security risks to each network due to how they are structured and unsegmented.
The biggest advantages in migrating to a newer ethernet protocol and associated speed, will
be the improved data throughput. "However, the interconnection of dissimilar LANs and
devices over a high-speed backbone network can create congestion at a destination LAN
tioutput) gateway when more than one device or LAN attempt is made to communicate
simultaneously with the same device or LAN. We address the issue of congestion avoidance
in LANs interconnected by a high-speed backbone" tiHassanein 1997, p. 261). Through
migration to the 1000baseT standard and moving from a 100mbps to a 1000mbps
backbone, the ten fold increase in speed will prevent and or mitigate the majority of the
congestion. In combination with a network restructure to isolate like devices to their own
LAN, this will further prevent the congestion mentioned by Hassanein.
The most significant disadvantage to adopting this standard will be the cost and time
involved with such an upgrade. If building a new network there would not be a significant
difference in cost as most all newer devices have already adopted 1000baseT standard for
network connectivity. When considering International Plastics Inc. it may prove necessary to
not only upgrade and replace all switches, and routers, it may also be necessary to replace
some or all of the workstation computers if they do not have 1000baseT network cards or
purchase cards for each device. Additionally, even though CAT5 cabling is capable of
delivering 1000mbps speeds, depending on the length of the runs and cable degradation
since installation it may be necessary to replace significant amount of the cabling to avoid
loss in connectivity and speed. Finally attributing to the cost will be the need for additional
switches, patch panels, routers and cabling in order to facilitate the segmentation of the
new network infrastructure proposed.
Despite the disadvantage of cost, upgrading the LAN backbone at each site would provide
the most direct and significant impact for business performance. Each location has between
25 and 50 employees utilizing computers and around 25 VOIP phones. Provided an
estimated required bandwidth of 5Mbps per VOIP phone the 100Mbps connection could be
completely saturated if all 25 phones where in use. Although this is unlikely, in combination
with bandwidth needs of the computers and other devices a 100mbps connection is simply
not enough. Through this upgrade, it is expected that employees will have better call quality
leading to less repetition as well as faster access to LAN services such and exchange, and
NAS. All of these small improvements result in significant increases in eficiency and
productivity.
The Albany location has a singular T2 connection to the WAN which provides its connectivity
to the corporate headquarters building. Inside the location there are 20 computers and a
printer wired into a 48 ports patch panel and then a 48 port switch, there is a 24 port switch
which provides connectivity to the manufacturing floor all cabling at this site is CATS. There
is a NAS, and local ERP server at this location to provide local data backup which is protected
by a UPS in case of power failure. There is a fiber connection between the local ERP server
and the NAS to facilitate faster data access. Finally there is firewall monitoring the T2 WAN
connection to provide some additional security to the local network. The Pontiac location is
very similarly built to the Albany location with the exception that it is a larger network. The
Pontiac location has 45 computers running the same Windows 7 and Ofice 2007 along with
4 printers.
Running a business in an ever forward moving technological world ensuring that a business
is is keeping up with technology has become critical to maintaining and improving business
performance. "The advancement of technology and the changing global business
environment have compelled the transformation of a warehouse" tiKumar et al., 2021, p.
3470). Utilizing enhances tools for tracking warehouse inventory, production and progress,
will move the business towards increased performance and eficiency as data transparency
increases. This increased insight into production and stocks will lead to increased
manufacturing eficiency while also reducing waste and cost through more informed
ordering of materials and supplies. Beyond these changes and advancements, simply
upgrading the equipment that is on site will greatly improve eficiency. Upgrading the
infrastructure to allow for greater data transfer speeds between employee computers and
local storage, means it takes less time to open and save documents saved on the local NAS,
increased backup speeds, less time waiting for calculations to occur and applications to
load. All of these time savings accumulate into increased eficiency and performance. Adding
new cloud based solution into the new IT infrastructure will allow for future growth in
business compute needs, as well as allowing for a tertiary data backup beyond the local and
main data storage locations at the corporate headquarters. This is another example of how
upgrading the infrastructure will allow for the business to become more productive by
taking advantage of additional tools like cloud computing. "Cloud computing information
centers give high extensibility, achievement, and approach to effective limitless computing
capacity to application suppliers" tiNazir et al. 2021, p. 3537)
Recommendations
The recommendation with the most significant impact will be migrating from
100baseTtilEEE 802.3u) to 1000baseT ti IEEE 802.3ab) and properly segmenting the
network. Based on the current state and structure of the network at each location the most
significant data bottleneck. Along with the data throughput there is also significant added
security risks to each network due to how they are structured and unsegmented.
The biggest advantages in migrating to a newer ethernet protocol and associated speed, will
be the improved data throughput. "However, the interconnection of dissimilar LANs and
devices over a high-speed backbone network can create congestion at a destination LAN
tioutput) gateway when more than one device or LAN attempt is made to communicate
simultaneously with the same device or LAN. We address the issue of congestion avoidance
in LANs interconnected by a high-speed backbone" tiHassanein 1997, p. 261). Through
migration to the 1000baseT standard and moving from a 100mbps to a 1000mbps
backbone, the ten fold increase in speed will prevent and or mitigate the majority of the
congestion. In combination with a network restructure to isolate like devices to their own
LAN, this will further prevent the congestion mentioned by Hassanein.
The most significant disadvantage to adopting this standard will be the cost and time
involved with such an upgrade. If building a new network there would not be a significant
difference in cost as most all newer devices have already adopted 1000baseT standard for
network connectivity. When considering International Plastics Inc. it may prove necessary to
not only upgrade and replace all switches, and routers, it may also be necessary to replace
some or all of the workstation computers if they do not have 1000baseT network cards or
purchase cards for each device. Additionally, even though CAT5 cabling is capable of
delivering 1000mbps speeds, depending on the length of the runs and cable degradation
since installation it may be necessary to replace significant amount of the cabling to avoid
loss in connectivity and speed. Finally attributing to the cost will be the need for additional
switches, patch panels, routers and cabling in order to facilitate the segmentation of the
new network infrastructure proposed.
Despite the disadvantage of cost, upgrading the LAN backbone at each site would provide
the most direct and significant impact for business performance. Each location has between
25 and 50 employees utilizing computers and around 25 VOIP phones. Provided an
estimated required bandwidth of 5Mbps per VOIP phone the 100Mbps connection could be
completely saturated if all 25 phones where in use. Although this is unlikely, in combination
with bandwidth needs of the computers and other devices a 100mbps connection is simply
not enough. Through this upgrade, it is expected that employees will have better call quality
leading to less repetition as well as faster access to LAN services such and exchange, and
NAS. All of these small improvements result in significant increases in eficiency and
productivity.
The Albany location has a singular T2 connection to the WAN which provides its connectivity
to the corporate headquarters building. Inside the location there are 20 computers and a
printer wired into a 48 ports patch panel and then a 48 port switch, there is a 24 port switch
which provides connectivity to the manufacturing floor all cabling at this site is CATS. There
is a NAS, and local ERP server at this location to provide local data backup which is protected
by a UPS in case of power failure. There is a fiber connection between the local ERP server
and the NAS to facilitate faster data access. Finally there is firewall monitoring the T2 WAN
connection to provide some additional security to the local network. The Pontiac location is
very similarly built to the Albany location with the exception that it is a larger network. The
Pontiac location has 45 computers running the same Windows 7 and Ofice 2007 along with
4 printers.
Running a business in an ever forward moving technological world ensuring that a business
is is keeping up with technology has become critical to maintaining and improving business
performance. "The advancement of technology and the changing global business
environment have compelled the transformation of a warehouse" tiKumar et al., 2021, p.
3470). Utilizing enhances tools for tracking warehouse inventory, production and progress,
will move the business towards increased performance and eficiency as data transparency
increases. This increased insight into production and stocks will lead to increased
manufacturing eficiency while also reducing waste and cost through more informed
ordering of materials and supplies. Beyond these changes and advancements, simply
upgrading the equipment that is on site will greatly improve eficiency. Upgrading the
infrastructure to allow for greater data transfer speeds between employee computers and
local storage, means it takes less time to open and save documents saved on the local NAS,
increased backup speeds, less time waiting for calculations to occur and applications to
load. All of these time savings accumulate into increased eficiency and performance. Adding
new cloud based solution into the new IT infrastructure will allow for future growth in
business compute needs, as well as allowing for a tertiary data backup beyond the local and
main data storage locations at the corporate headquarters. This is another example of how
upgrading the infrastructure will allow for the business to become more productive by
taking advantage of additional tools like cloud computing. "Cloud computing information
centers give high extensibility, achievement, and approach to effective limitless computing
capacity to application suppliers" tiNazir et al. 2021, p. 3537)
Recommendations
The recommendation with the most significant impact will be migrating from
100baseTtilEEE 802.3u) to 1000baseT ti IEEE 802.3ab) and properly segmenting the
network. Based on the current state and structure of the network at each location the most
significant data bottleneck. Along with the data throughput there is also significant added
security risks to each network due to how they are structured and unsegmented.
The biggest advantages in migrating to a newer ethernet protocol and associated speed, will
be the improved data throughput. "However, the interconnection of dissimilar LANs and
devices over a high-speed backbone network can create congestion at a destination LAN
tioutput) gateway when more than one device or LAN attempt is made to communicate
simultaneously with the same device or LAN. We address the issue of congestion avoidance
in LANs interconnected by a high-speed backbone" tiHassanein 1997, p. 261). Through
migration to the 1000baseT standard and moving from a 100mbps to a 1000mbps
backbone, the ten fold increase in speed will prevent and or mitigate the majority of the
congestion. In combination with a network restructure to isolate like devices to their own
LAN, this will further prevent the congestion mentioned by Hassanein.
The most significant disadvantage to adopting this standard will be the cost and time
involved with such an upgrade. If building a new network there would not be a significant
difference in cost as most all newer devices have already adopted 1000baseT standard for
network connectivity. When considering International Plastics Inc. it may prove necessary to
not only upgrade and replace all switches, and routers, it may also be necessary to replace
some or all of the workstation computers if they do not have 1000baseT network cards or
purchase cards for each device. Additionally, even though CAT5 cabling is capable of
delivering 1000mbps speeds, depending on the length of the runs and cable degradation
since installation it may be necessary to replace significant amount of the cabling to avoid
loss in connectivity and speed. Finally attributing to the cost will be the need for additional
switches, patch panels, routers and cabling in order to facilitate the segmentation of the
new network infrastructure proposed.
Despite the disadvantage of cost, upgrading the LAN backbone at each site would provide
the most direct and significant impact for business performance. Each location has between
25 and 50 employees utilizing computers and around 25 VOIP phones. Provided an
estimated required bandwidth of 5Mbps per VOIP phone the 100Mbps connection could be
completely saturated if all 25 phones where in use. Although this is unlikely, in combination
with bandwidth needs of the computers and other devices a 100mbps connection is simply
not enough. Through this upgrade, it is expected that employees will have better call quality
leading to less repetition as well as faster access to LAN services such and exchange, and
NAS. All of these small improvements result in significant increases in eficiency and
productivity.
The Albany location has a singular T2 connection to the WAN which provides its connectivity
to the corporate headquarters building. Inside the location there are 20 computers and a
printer wired into a 48 ports patch panel and then a 48 port switch, there is a 24 port switch
which provides connectivity to the manufacturing floor all cabling at this site is CATS. There
is a NAS, and local ERP server at this location to provide local data backup which is protected
by a UPS in case of power failure. There is a fiber connection between the local ERP server
and the NAS to facilitate faster data access. Finally there is firewall monitoring the T2 WAN
connection to provide some additional security to the local network. The Pontiac location is
very similarly built to the Albany location with the exception that it is a larger network. The
Pontiac location has 45 computers running the same Windows 7 and Ofice 2007 along with
4 printers.
Running a business in an ever forward moving technological world ensuring that a business
is is keeping up with technology has become critical to maintaining and improving business
performance. "The advancement of technology and the changing global business
environment have compelled the transformation of a warehouse" tiKumar et al., 2021, p.
3470). Utilizing enhances tools for tracking warehouse inventory, production and progress,
will move the business towards increased performance and eficiency as data transparency
increases. This increased insight into production and stocks will lead to increased
manufacturing eficiency while also reducing waste and cost through more informed
ordering of materials and supplies. Beyond these changes and advancements, simply
upgrading the equipment that is on site will greatly improve eficiency. Upgrading the
infrastructure to allow for greater data transfer speeds between employee computers and
local storage, means it takes less time to open and save documents saved on the local NAS,
increased backup speeds, less time waiting for calculations to occur and applications to
load. All of these time savings accumulate into increased eficiency and performance. Adding
new cloud based solution into the new IT infrastructure will allow for future growth in
business compute needs, as well as allowing for a tertiary data backup beyond the local and
main data storage locations at the corporate headquarters. This is another example of how
upgrading the infrastructure will allow for the business to become more productive by
taking advantage of additional tools like cloud computing. "Cloud computing information
centers give high extensibility, achievement, and approach to effective limitless computing
capacity to application suppliers" tiNazir et al. 2021, p. 3537)
Recommendations
The recommendation with the most significant impact will be migrating from
100baseTtilEEE 802.3u) to 1000baseT ti IEEE 802.3ab) and properly segmenting the
network. Based on the current state and structure of the network at each location the most
significant data bottleneck. Along with the data throughput there is also significant added
security risks to each network due to how they are structured and unsegmented.
The biggest advantages in migrating to a newer ethernet protocol and associated speed, will
be the improved data throughput. "However, the interconnection of dissimilar LANs and
devices over a high-speed backbone network can create congestion at a destination LAN
tioutput) gateway when more than one device or LAN attempt is made to communicate
simultaneously with the same device or LAN. We address the issue of congestion avoidance
in LANs interconnected by a high-speed backbone" tiHassanein 1997, p. 261). Through
migration to the 1000baseT standard and moving from a 100mbps to a 1000mbps
backbone, the ten fold increase in speed will prevent and or mitigate the majority of the
congestion. In combination with a network restructure to isolate like devices to their own
LAN, this will further prevent the congestion mentioned by Hassanein.
The most significant disadvantage to adopting this standard will be the cost and time
involved with such an upgrade. If building a new network there would not be a significant
difference in cost as most all newer devices have already adopted 1000baseT standard for
network connectivity. When considering International Plastics Inc. it may prove necessary to
not only upgrade and replace all switches, and routers, it may also be necessary to replace
some or all of the workstation computers if they do not have 1000baseT network cards or
purchase cards for each device. Additionally, even though CAT5 cabling is capable of
delivering 1000mbps speeds, depending on the length of the runs and cable degradation
since installation it may be necessary to replace significant amount of the cabling to avoid
loss in connectivity and speed. Finally attributing to the cost will be the need for additional
switches, patch panels, routers and cabling in order to facilitate the segmentation of the
new network infrastructure proposed.
Despite the disadvantage of cost, upgrading the LAN backbone at each site would provide
the most direct and significant impact for business performance. Each location has between
25 and 50 employees utilizing computers and around 25 VOIP phones. Provided an
estimated required bandwidth of 5Mbps per VOIP phone the 100Mbps connection could be
completely saturated if all 25 phones where in use. Although this is unlikely, in combination
with bandwidth needs of the computers and other devices a 100mbps connection is simply
not enough. Through this upgrade, it is expected that employees will have better call quality
leading to less repetition as well as faster access to LAN services such and exchange, and
NAS. All of these small improvements result in significant increases in eficiency and
productivity.
