Reference no: EM133341397

Scenario:

PineMartin Fuels Ltd. supply heating oil to private homes and commercial installations and provide a maintenance service for their customers' equipment. They employ 15 clerical staff plus a number of service engineers and delivery drivers. Currently all customer details are held on PCs, as are supplier information and accounts data. The site is in one building, over two floors, with 7 PCs upstairs in offices and three downstairs, one in each of the director's offices and one in dispatch. The staff who have to use the computer systems have received training and are familiar with the current system. Since not all data is held on all PCs and data is only updated every few days, PineMartin are getting into difficulties with data inconsistency. This is resulting in customers becoming upset when orders are not delivered or service schedules not met. The directors, Mr. Pine and Mr. Martin, are PC literate and have decided that the solution to their problem would be to network the PCs they have and hold the data centrally. Since they have just recruited you, straight from this course, as a computer expert, the directors have asked you to produce a suitable network solution. They are interested in both the technical aspects of the solution and, of course, the costs.

Question

Design an appropriate local area network infrastructure for PineMartin and provide logical network diagrams using any drawing package of your choice. The diagram should show how the organisation might provide the required services and connections. As well Evaluate the infrastructure devices you have used to show its functionality and purpose in relation to the design and organisation requirements.

The actual local area network diagram must be provided and explained how it works.