It/242 Final Project

IT/242 Final Project

Michael J. Beard Jr.

IT/242

6/5/2011

Lawrence Master

Abstract

Acme Manufacturing is a swiftly enlarging company that is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. The head office building houses corporate operations, marketing, administrative staff, and accounting. Across the street from the head office are the engineering and sales offices. Acme also has distribution offices in Chicago, Phoenix, and New York. Having just attained a manufacturing facility in China, the company is now in need of a WAN that will allow each office to securely correspond with each other. Acme will also need a telecommunications system that enables communication in the most proficient way. In order to accomplish the preferred connectivity, an assortment of products and services will be required.

IT/242 Final Project

Logical Network Design

The network topology used for Acme’s WAN should be a star topology with each site having only a direct connection to headquarters; the benefit is that network administration is centralized. The engineering and sales offices will connect to headquarters over the public WAN through a VPN configured with L2TP and IPsec for security. The manufacturing facility in China can be linked to headquarters through a leased satellite connection. Acme should lease three fractional T1 leased lines that extend from the headquarters in Atlanta to the distribution centers, one line each to Phoenix, Chicago, and New York. Because of the rapid growth of the company, leasing fractional T1 lines ensures Acme is prepared for the future. My proposed WAN topology for Acme Manufacturing is represented in figure 1 below.

ATL (HQ)

T1

T1

T1

NY

PHX

CHI

CHINA

ATL (HQ)

T1

T1

T1

NY

PHX

CHI

CHINA

Figure 1 - Proposed WAN Topology for Acme Manufacturing.

Though leased lines and satellite communications will enable long distance network connectivity, the LANs at each location will be wired with Cat-5 UTP cabling to support...