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Think of an imaginary company and let's call it XYZ This company has:
- 500 Employees, 300 headquartered in US, 150 manufacturing people in Asia, (you decide which country) and 50 in EU for sales/marketing and support This company does not have a working IT and they have hired you to build their IT infrastructure from scratch. You will need to research and see what it take to build an IT department for a company that is located in 3 continents.Here are some example of what you will need to look at, but don’t’ limit yourself to only these items:
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Explanation & Answer
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New IT Infrastructure Build
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Since its inception, XYZ Company has been operating without IT system. The
headquarters of this company is located in the United States of America, but it has additional
branches in China and Spain. Since these businesses are located on three different
continents(America, Asia, and Europe), it has been very hard for businesses activities of this
company to coordinate effectively. XYZ Company has experienced difficult time to make
communication between the three continents. Furthermore, there has been a problem of
managing a large number of employees especially in the United States and manufacturing
companies in Asia.
The Company relies most on the old system of storing data using manual files. This poor
method of information storage has made the company to lose important information and data
leading it to perform poorly in the global market. Data retrieval and update in the company is
very tedious since the employee has to go through manual files without any help of the
computer. The management of finance in the company is a big problem since there is no any
system that is used to track and monitor the way finances in the company are spent. This has
made the company to experience a lot of losses due to mismanagement of funds.
Additionally, XYZ Company has no system that can be used to inform their customers
about their products or any changes that occur in the company. The company has lost many
customers to other upcoming companies. The company still uses the traditional way of
advertising its products using local radio stations and television. Due to these problems, the
company has decided to create a sophisticated IT system and database to help the employees in
the three continents to communicate effectively and efficiently. The system intents to automate
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all the processes in the company, increase data security, improve marketing sector and improve
coordination in the three continents.
Site- to- Site Virtual Private Network
Site- to- site Virtual Private Network (VPN) connection will be used to create a link
between the three continents. Virtual Private Network commonly referred to as VPN is a
collection of many computers or isolated networks linked together through the Internet. Before
VPN is set, each site will require the Internet connection. The internet connection will be
accessed through a modern fiber optic cable (preferably, Verizon’s FIOS). The fiber optic
technology is very effective because it will provide about 40 Mbps.
The VPN will ensure that the three sites where the company’s operations are carried out
are accessed to broad or larger network. Since the internet is not a private entity, the major
concern that will be put into consideration during the process of implementing of the VPN is
security issues. To avoid hackers and attacker from accessing the important information of the
company, a tunnel will be created via the internet whereby the information or traffic that will
pass through the tunnel can be encrypted to protect the sensitive data and information (Allis,
2013).
Site to site VPN will require a gateway at all the three sites. Data will be encrypted from
one gateway to another through the internet. The special protocol will be used to create the
tunnel and data encryption. This system will use Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol (L2TP). This
protocol will use a combination of point to point tunnelin...