Harriet's Fruit and Chocolate Company

Case Study 1: Harriet’s Fruit and Chocolate Company

Naressa Hackney Menser

Dr. Edwin Otto

CIS532 Network Architecture and Analysis

January 27, 2013

To determine the investigation that will be done with regard to the physical infrastructure of the orchards, orchard shacks, and the cold storage building, you have to suggest scalability. When analyzing a customer’s goals for scalability, it is imperative to look at the obstacles of scalability. Full grown fruit trees are tall and leafy and can absorb wireless radio frequency (RF) signals (Oppenheimer, 2011). The selection of technology used to meet the company’s goals is important because it must factor in the tall leafy trees. Proper storage is also a must because the cold storage buildings could create ice hazards that prevent equipment installation. The scalability stage is essential in the designing of a network process which includes whether to use LAN or WAN. In this case, because of the cold storage buildings icing issue, I would recommend using WAN. The WAN has less capacity than LANs thus would be within budget because it’s less expensive due to routing protocols that can minimize WAN traffic, WAN circuits the utilization of a compression will improve efficiency and allocate WAN bandwidth (Oppenheimer, 2011). I would also recommend Ethernet as it is the standard method for connecting servers, switches and the machines of end users (Oppenheimer, 2011).

A list of business goals for Harriet’s Fruit and Chocolate Company and determination of the constraints that will affect these goals will depend on knowing Harriet’s business goals and the constraints because this is a crucial aspect of network design (Oppenheimer, 2011). Changes and upgrades made to a network are to increase the profit, productivity, market share and cash flow of a business therefore network designers must make decisions for solutions that address whatever dilemmas the business manager have (Oppenheimer, 2011). Let’s start the list with...