Network Infrastructure
The Cookies co. the organization is interested to create the new network infrastructure to provide the effective communication between the employees and customers. The Organization has one or more network issues such as slow data connectivity and unreliable communications. These two network issues are solved by creating the fresh network infrastructure. It provides the high connectivity and reliable communications between the employees and customers. It is the proposed network infrastructure that provides the reliable communication by implementing the network convergence and unified communications. Because the unified communication provides the reliable communication. It also uses the network services to satisfy the customers. The network services will be discussed. IP and DNS management will be discussed. The Data processing facilities will be discussed.
The current Cookie Co. organization does not have the effective network infrastructure. It has slow network connectivity and unreliable voice calls the due to network issues. The Cookie co. the organization does not satisfy the customer because it has an unreliable network. So, the organization has decided to create the new network infrastructure. The proposed network infrastructure uses the network convergence and unified communications to provide the effective communication for an organization. The network convergence is an IP based services. The IP based services are fully converged network to carry those (Kurose & Ross, n.d.). The convergence basically provides the best network results and tangible cost savings for the several years running.
The Network convergence process includes the two basic initiatives like phase-in and phase-out. The network convergence needs to implement an MPLS network. Because the MPLS network handles the network traffic like voice, video, and data on a network infrastructure. It provides the reliable and secure network. The network convergence includes the IP and MPLS convergence solution to extend the multi-service capabilities (NETworking, 2013). The IP and MPLS convergence provide the quality of services to ensure the consistent service levels for video and voice over both WAN and LAN facilities. It manages the network bandwidth. It refers to the provision of data, video, and telephone communications services within a network. The network convergence allows service providers to adopt the new business models and it offers the innovative services. The network convergence increases the quality of communication within an organization. The network convergence easily deploying the unified communications applications. It provides the productivity of unified communications and it enhances the initiatives of unified communication.
The unified communication is used to describe a unified environment for video, voice communications, voice mail and email functionality on a network. The unified communication implementation was used to allow the organization to increase the trend of convergences (Connecting networks companion guide, 2014). It includes the various communications such as data communication, telephone, voice and video communications. The unified communication is used to enables the video, voice, and data to carried by an IP network infrastructure. Because the IP network infrastructure providing the effective network and reliable voice call services. The unified communications must satisfy the customers. Many organization using the IP network infrastructure to enable the unified communication for an organization.
Network convergence and Unified Communications
The Proposed network infrastructure was required to build the successful unified communication platform for an organization. The proposed network infrastructure includes the voice security, mitigate strategies and unified communication to provide the effective and reliable network for a Cookies Co. Organization. The proposed network infrastructure must ensure the resilient and redundant foundation with the quality of services enabled for the unified communication on a network. The proposed network infrastructure also ensures the voice security with a general security policy for unified communication. The unified communication provides the tested models to deploy the unified communications call control and applications. It also mitigates the IP telephony application because it provides how to separate the standalone video, collaboration and voice systems to integrate the unified communication systems.
The LANs that creates the physical connection to an organization. The LAN types are determined by the Ethernet interfaces (Network basics, 2014). Each LAN must have the routers as its gateway connecting the LAN to other networks. Inside the LAN, there must be switches and hubs to connect the network devices to the LAN. To connect a LAN, the user needs to select the appropriate network devices to connect the end devices to the network. LAN mostly uses the two common devices lie switches and hubs. The LAN types must meet the user requirements. The LAN needs to be designed and planned. The LAN types planning ensures all network requirements. It has the following factors. They are,
- Manageability
- Expandability
- Types and speed of ports/interfaces
- Cost
- Additional services and features
The LAN cabling has four physical areas such as,
- Distribution cabling
- Backbone cabling
- Telecommunication rooms
- work area
The LAN connection mostly using the crossover UTP cables to communicate with two devices. It directly connected the network devices.
The WAN connections are necessary for the Cookie Co. organization. The WAN connections operate beyond the LAN scopes (Stallings, n.d.). It is used to interconnect the organization LAN with Remote LAN in head offices and branch offices. The Service provider provides the WAN connection for an organization. It also distributes the private telecommunications network that interconnects the multiple LANs. The WAN connection consists of multiple connections to an organization branch office, head offices, cloud services and other facilities. The wired connection is used to provide the security and productivity to an organization.
The network transmission media is a pathway to carry the information from sender to receiver by using the various types of cables to transmit the data. The information and data are transmitted electromagnetically or through electric signals. The transmission media is divided into two types such as wired and wireless transmission media. The transmission media is used to connect the devices by using three media types like copper cable, wireless cable and fiber optics. Most of the organization uses the fibre optics cable to connect the network devices because it improves the network security and very clear communication. The transmission media is mainly used for connecting the devices by using the various cables (Learning network services for professional development, 2014).
LAN types and Cabling Plan
The IP address management uses the IP address scanning solution to discover the overall network, and it solves the network visibility issues. The IP address management solutions are used to allow the network discovery. It scans the overall network IP addresses and deploying the IP space in the organization. The DNS management is used to minimize the creation of domain and to improve the data consistency (Yilmaz, 2012). The DNS management was handling the domain demands by using the BIND solutions. The IP and DNS management was resolve the network issues to provide the reliable network infrastructure for cookies Co. Organization.
The Network services are VOIP, Email, Web, extranet, WWW and Intranet services.
The voice over IP is one of network services. The VOIP services is a group of technologies that delivers the voice communication and multimedia sessions over IP networks. It has following terms such as broadband phone services, broadband telephone and internet telephone. These are providing the communication services for an organization.
The World Wide Web services are one of the web services. The WWW web services are used to provide the secure web security. It enforced the business opportunity in the network infrastructure. It secures the data and networks for an organization (Scaling networks, 2014).
Email services are used for exchanging the message between the client and server for an organization. The Email operates across the computer networks. The email servers are accepted to store, deliver and forward messages. The email services are used to share the information through the user network.
The intranet and extranet are providing the benefit to the business. The intranet is a network where employees can communicate, content, develop and collaborate the organization cultures. The Extranet is like an intranet, and it provides the access control to authorized vendors, partners, and customers (Lewis, n.d.).
The network services are providing the effective network infrastructure for an organization. It also provides the reliable network connection for a cookies Co. The network services are providing the customer support via Voice over IP communications. It provides the secure and reliable communication between the employees and customers.
The current Cookies Co. organization stores the data by using the small database. So, it has various databases. The proposed infrastructure was using the cloud data center. The cloud datacenter provides the secure data services. It also stores the large files and documents (Griss and Yang, 2012). It evolves the support to more agile and scalable platforms. It supports more applications, workloads, and users. It must be capable and adaptable of intelligent data management. It provides the more efficient systems. It helps to support the new business demands. It provides the high scalable network platforms and manages a large amount of data. The cloud data center is always planning on an important role in the organization because distribute the file system and cloud computing storage infrastructure. It improves the data processing and data growth in an organization. The cloud data center satisfies the organization goals and requirements. It provides the effective infrastructure for the cookies Co. Organization.
The proposed infrastructure is using the distributed data processing model. The distributed data processing is one of the computer network methods to share the capabilities of computer processing. It provides the processing capability and manages the centralized server to all connected systems (Introduction to networks, n.d.). The distributed data processing provides the reliable processing since the multiple control centers are spread across the various machines. It is more reliable than the single server processing systems. It improves the performance and reduces the processing time. The distributed data processing increases the performance by adding another computer to a network.
Conclusion
The Cookies Co. organization is interested to design a proposed network infrastructure for customers and employees. It provides the secure and effective voice communication between the employees and customers. It has two network issues that are unreliable communications and slow data connectivity. These issues are resolved by designing the fresh network infrastructure. The fresh network infrastructure is used to implement the network convergence and unified communications to provide the effective communications. It satisfies the customers and clients by using the network services. The DNS and IP management are discussed in detail. The Data processing facilities for Cookies Co organization also discussed and analyzed.
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