Reference no: EM132419098 , Length: word count:1000
Assignment - Need to draw network diagram based on Case Study and also supporting statements.
Case Study -
You have been named the network administrator for a regional store which has seven stores and its own distribution network with five warehouses. Your responsibility is to come up with a plan for the network infrastructure, which includes number of servers, network security devices, desktops, laptops and handheld devices. The plan should be carefully crafted to show all the necessary details in deploying the infrastructure (LANs, firewalls, routers, switches, IDS and sensors, servers (DNS, applications, databases, etc.), addressing scheme and any other security related systems, including specifics about the configurations. An understanding of the security issues the company is facing in order to conduct its business has to be reflected in the security aspects of the infrastructure (you should justify why a security measure is taken and how it will affect the enterprise business).
The store has seven locations within Northeast region of the United States and five warehouses. There is also the headquarters, which is located in an adjacent building to one of the warehouses. The store network consists of a main site, a backup site and 12 sites one for each store and warehouse. All the store and warehouse sites are connected to the main site as individual networks through dedicated lines. The store sites need to have access to the central database of the firm besides their own databases. Each of the stores has roughly 30 employees except for the headquarters which has 100. The warehouses have 50 employees each, 30 of which are delivering and installing products at the customer residence. These employees work in teams of two, use trucks and have mobile access to the base warehouse through an ISP. Given the nature of the business, all the employees in the stores require internet access. Email services are required as well. The store uses customized software to interface to the databases and has a web interface to interact with the customers. Each store and warehouse has its own database but periodically the information from this database updates the main database. However, the management, which is located at the headquarters, must have access to all the information. The Human Resources department has its own database and so does the payroll department. Each of these departments has a staff of 10 people and does not need access to the other databases. The IT department employs roughly 30 people, 10 of which are located at the headquarters.
Your plans should contain diagrams that describe the networks at the stores and warehouses sites, at the headquarters and how they are interconnected, including the backup site.
The CTO of the store has also decided to use virtualization and asked you to look into it. You are supposed to give a detailed plan regarding which portions of the network have to be targeted for virtualization and why. You are also supposed to lay off a plan on how to proceed with this technology and show how it would affect the infrastructure that you have previously designed without using virtualization, as well as the changes in the business continuity and disaster recovery plan for the firm.