Bead Bar Network

Bead Bar Company Network Paper

Bead Bar is a company that specializes in allowing customers to create their own bead jewelry. Meredith S. is the president and owner of the company. Bead Bar was founded in 1998 when Meredith opened a Bead Bar studio in New Canaan, Connecticut (Malaga, 2005). The company still uses paper-based forms. The Bead Bar is now large enough that the paper-based form system is inefficient and has caused some problems, including lost orders, incorrect invoicing, and fulfillment delays.

This paper will give recommendations for the company’s IT needs and help Bead Bar to enter the digital world of business.

The major characteristics of the digital world of business are globalization, digitization of goods, speed, merger of products and services, the role of ideas, and new markets and pricing.

Bead Bar will move on to establishing networking technologies. This is a complex step that needs careful planning in order to be successful, and will function efficiently. It entails knowledge of media, hardware, software, protocols, and topologies – all of which can be mixed and matched in various ways.

Many things should be considered in building a network, one of these is a develop detailed written network plan complete with diagrams, outlining the structure of the proposed network.

Another is an assessment who will use the network and how they will use it (Malaga, 2005). A network plan ensures that all aspects of implementing and maintaining a network have been through before the implementation actually occurs. The major components of a network plan include capacity planning, designing of the network, establishing appropriate security policies and procedures, and developing policies for monitoring, maintenance, and backup (Malaga, 2005).

Bead Bar already purchased 14 personal computers....