Description
The Technical Paper will include the detailed response to the network design request. The document will be submitted in MS Word and will be between 10-15 pages with graphics embedded within the document.
Background
You are a small network design company called Wide-IP that is looking for that big break. As the CTO of the Wide-IP company, you recently made a persuasive presentation of your company's approach to designing networks at a large industry event. The CEO of Fiction Corporation, a large retail chain, was impressed by your presentation. It looks like you've finally got your break! You have a small team of 10 technically proficient staffers with a strong background in project management, networking, and internetworking skills that include PMP, Network+, CCNP, and CISSP credentials.
You have been selected by Fiction Corporation to develop a network design document and plan without an RFP.
Overview
Fiction Corporation, a large national retail chain of 10,000 employees and 500 retail outlets, is migrating its one primary data center operation to a new headquarters building several miles away. The company wishes to upgrade its network and correct any security flaws in its infrastructure as part of this move. The Fiction CEO has informed you that the capital budget for this migration cannot exceed $500,000 and must not interrupt business operations. What follows is a brief background that will serve as your foundation in developing the network design.
The data in the center supports remote retail locations, an off-site 100 seat call center and 3 remote warehousing operations 24 hours a day with annual uptime at 99.9%. Any significant downtime to its production systems would impact Fiction Corporation's operations and profitability. From the data processing viewpoint, the move includes 2 large UPS, 4 RS/6000 AIX application servers, 10 virtualized servers and 20 PC servers.
The network consists of approximately 500 remote location retail stores connected via frame relay (with ISDN backup) to 10 routers at the data center running a common LAN shared by the entire organization. The retail operations also run WLANs that are on its own subnet. You will have a T1 link and ISDN as a primary backup. Network managers also need to monitor the status of remote systems. The SNMP management system must be able to detect and report failure of the remote system or its communications link and the status of individual applications.
The company wishes a seamless migration that minimizes impact to its customers and employees. Any gaps in this background will require you to make sound technical and persuasive assumptions that satisfy the customer's goals that are within the budget guidelines.
You were selected in part due to your detailed analysis and agreement to an implementation cost that will not exceed $500,000. Your network migration plan will be in phases with noted milestones. Key to the success of this plan is the availability of a T1 link between the remote sites to support remote bridging and development of configurations for all the remote routers.
Include the following in your assignment:
1. Title page
2. Table of contents
3. Executive summary
4. Project goal
5. Project scope
6. Design requirements:
a. Business goals
b. Technical goals
c. User communities and data stores
d. Network applications
7. Current state of the network
8. Logical design
9. Physical design
10. Results of network design testing
11. Discuss the availability of a T1 link.
11. Implementation plan with a project schedule
12. Project budget with a return on investment calculation
13. Design document appendix
Note: The powerpoint presentation file has been attached along with this assignment for referenece.
Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:
- Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA format.
- Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.
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Running head: NETWORK DESIGN EXECUTIVE PLAN
Network Design Executive Plan
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Executive Summary
This paper outlines the needs of the Network Design Project for Fiction Corporation that is
migrating its primary data center operations to a new headquarter. This technical paper presents a
structured study of the actions to be followed in determining hitches encountered during the
migration of the data center. The study involves an analysis of the several aspects of the present
network topology and different kinds of technologies presently in use. This will be followed by a
careful evaluation after which a team of ten IT experts will develop a plan to facilitate a seamless
migration with minimal impact on the employees and customers. However, we will recommend
some proposals related to the network design changes so as to improve the efficiency of the
network because the approach Wide-IP follows considers the business needs of the client. This
entails considering the financial limits and the required uptime. Lastly, we will present to the client
(Fiction Corporation) a comprehensive design that is in phases and constructed according to the
budgeted amount and within the company’s timeline. As the Chief Technology Officer, I am
confident with the work because our team of experts is qualified to undertake the various needs of
the migration process. This can be confirmed by our various certifications that include CCNP,
Network+, CCNP, and CISSP.
Project Goal
The major goals of the project include; the migration of the data center, upgrade of the
existing network infrastructure, and a cost-effective implementation that considers the budget and
time constraints. The migration of the data center involves the transition of one primary data center
operations to a new division that is located miles away. This should be a seamless migration that
should not impact the daily operational activities of the corporation. For Wide-IP to achieve this,
it will create backup measures that duplicate storage of data at the remote location. Once this
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location is ready to host the company’s data and operations, the old data center will be made
dysfunctional. Data center migration is often considered as an entirely technical project to be
undertaken by IT experts. With the core business operations dependent on IT, this process can
expose a company to significant risks because the data center is at the core of the enterprise. This
entails a complex, interrelated arrangement of equipment, data and software that powers and drives
every aspect of the organization. Since change is inevitable, the company recognizes that growth
can only be achieved by changing according to both the external and internal environmental needs.
Every stakeholder perceives data migration as a challenge (Al-Bahadili, 2012). The data center
managers view it as a logistical nightmare whereas system administrators perceive it as a technical
challenge. On the business end, it a potential threat to customers and employees, and thus, it’s
vital to address the concerns of each key stakeholder by facilitating a seamless migration.
The management of Fiction Corporation aims to seize this transition as an opportunity to
upgrade its network infrastructure and amend any security flaws in the system. Our team of experts
will achieve this by analyzing the present network design and its supplementary resourcefulness.
This is where we will optimize and quality control of operations and the sub-goal is to deploy new
technologies and network infrastructure. Lastly, the Wide-IP needs to ensure that the
implementation is cost-effective by sticking to the budget and working within the timeline. Fiction
Corporation has allocated $500,000 for this project. As the CTO of Wide-IP, I will regard the cost
of the project to be inelastic and keep under the constraints of the client because it will only be
approved if it delivers returns on short or long-term bases. Therefore, the design of the network
infrastructure will consider the return on investment.
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Project Scope
The data center and the network infrastructure are at the core of the corpor...