Company Background
ABC Logistic Company has newly established its first office in Great Portland Street with an initial staff of 6 people – an admin officer, 4 document processors, and a receptionist. There are two directors of this new company who are now interested to deploy a small network in their setup that could help them to manage their staff and resources more efficiently and effectively.
Proposed Network Design
As shown in the figure, there are total 13 partitions in the office – 2 for directors, 1 for receptionist, and 10 for staff. All the partitions have network ports, therefore, it is possible to provide network connectivity to all the users.
Why?
In last few years, the significant advancement in information technology and telecommunication has attracted almost every business to use them for improving their processes and gaining competitive edge over their competitors. With the recent developments in wireless communications and video conferencing, the businesses have showed their great interest to embrace these new technologies in order to survive and prosper. Today complex phone systems, fax machines, and networked-computers are considered crucial for any business.
How?
The proposed network will offer a wide range of benefits to the business; some of the major advantages are:
- Ease of data sharing and access
- Cost reduction (for example, paper cost, postal delivery cost, and so on)
- Centralized point for managing applications (through Application Server)
- Link to the outside world through Internet (the link will be secured through using the Firewall)
- Centralized point for files and documents sharing (through FTP Server)
- Efficient management of resources and users
- Fast and reliable communication (through Exchange Server)