Network & Data Processing Solutions for Cookie Co.

This assignment examines the network and data processing needs of Cookie Co., a company with multiple branches. It proposes utilizing Storage Area Networks (SANs) to enhance storage access and a distributed peer-to-peer model for efficient data processing. The analysis delves into the benefits of these solutions, addressing challenges related to security and intellectual property.

Future Network Infrastructure for Cookie Company
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FUTURE NETWORK INFRASTRUCTURE FOR COOKIE CO.
Table of Contents
1. Network Infrastructure............................................................................................1
1) Network Convergence and Unified Communications...........................................1
2) LAN and Cabling Types.........................................................................................1
3) WAN Connection..................................................................................................1
4) Transmission Media and Connecting Devices.......................................................1
5) IP and DNS Management......................................................................................2
2. Networked Services.................................................................................................2
VOIP............................................................................................................................... 2
Intranet.......................................................................................................................... 2
Extranet..........................................................................................................................2
Email.............................................................................................................................. 3
3. Data Processing Facilities.........................................................................................3
3.1 Data storage Solution:..........................................................................................3
3.2 Data processing Model:........................................................................................3
References......................................................................................................................... 5
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1. Network Infrastructure
1) Network Convergence and Unified Communications
Building of reliable network is very essential for the Cookie Co. to establish their
network over different branches, employees and the main office. The main office of Cookie Co.
is to have the core network convergence so that it can support all other branches of the
company. The server that is used by Cookie Co. is six storage 2U racks. The 2U rack enhances
the connectivity of network making the company to flourish. The servers of 2U rack will connect
to switch automatically which builds a way between other devices. The switch has 8 numbers of
ports and 24 numbers of connections. Out of the 8 ports, one port will pass through firewall
and also connects to a router which access internet. The port that comes next will have
connection with LAN in the office of the Cookie Co. The ports of the LAN are then connected
with the systems of the employees so that they can access to the internet. To enable wireless
print in the office, print server is enabled to do fax operations and wireless printing. Ethernet
cables are also used for connectivity.
2) LAN and Cabling Types
LAN along with Ethernet cables are used in the Cookie Co. for establishing connection all
over the office. The adapters are used for the connections that are established in the company.
The use of adapters decreases the extra cost of installing different software and hardware and
also reduces the wiring features (Parikh, Sidhu and Shami 2013). Patch cables are used for
installation. Patch cables are used mainly for connecting a device with a socket.
3) WAN Connection
WAN connection is the wide area connection. This connection is mainly used for the
branch offices of the company. To connect the main office of Cookie Co. with the other branch
office mainly wide area networks are used. This is done mainly by installing units of data service
at the back end of the main office of the company. A router is used in the main office as well as
in the branch office and is also connected by a VPN connection. VPN serves wide area network
which needs the VPN in the software and the hardware devices.
4) Transmission Media and Connecting Devices
The transmission media that can be used in the company is optical fibers. By using
optical fibers, the signal strength is increased and there is almost no interference present in the
network (Webb 2015). Total internal reflections are used in the cables to move the waveguides
so that noise is removed from the cables and network to make the connection smooth.
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5) IP and DNS Management
Tools of network management are used for managing the IP and the DNS in the
company. The IP addresses are managed by these tools of network management. The MAC and
the DNS address are also managed by network management tool. One such software that is
used as networking software is OptUtils. The manager of the Cookie Co. uses this tool of
software management to keep a static look on the IP addresses that helps to keep a secured
connection.
2. Networked Services
To increase the connectivity of the data network and also make reliable voice calls
following network service can be used by the Cookie Co.
VOIP- VOIP, Voice over IP is transmission of multimedia content and voice via networks
of Internet Protocol. To enable the VOIP some methodologies and technologies are used so that
voice is delivered via internet, LAN of the enterprise and also the WAN of the enterprise ( Assem
et al. 2013). The Cookie Co. can encapsulate audio through codec into packets of data and
transmits them over IP network and also encrypts them back on the receiver end. The company
includes VOPI endpoints to dedicated desktop, VOIP over phones and applications of soft
phone.
Intranet- To secure the network of Cookie Co., the company may use intranet as its
private network to keep the data secured within the company. Many interlinked LANs are used
in Intranet and leased lines are used in WANs. Connections that are included in an intranet are
done by more than one gateway computers to outside internet (Silic and Back 2014). The main
motive of an intranet is sharing information of the company and the computing resource
among all the employees of the company. To make all the employees work in groups, intranet is
used. The Cookie Co. may also use intranet for the purpose of teleconference. TCP/IP and HTTP
protocols and also other protocols related to the internet are used by intranet. This helps to
keep the internet private from the outside world.
Extranet- The Cookie Co. may use another private network which uses the internet
technology and public telecommunications so that they are able to securely share the parts of
the business information and the operations with all vendors, partners, customers, suppliers
and also other businesses. The extranet is considered as a part of Cookie Co.’s intranet which is
also extended over the users. The network of extranet helps the company to do its online
businesses over the internet via secured protocol (Bennett 2014). Using Ethernet, the company
can do its selling and buying businesses well with the customers and the retailers. These
exchanges are done via EDI (Electronic Data Exchange). By using Ethernet, the company can
share their catalogs and menus with their retailers and the customers while doing trade. Cookie
Co. can also collaborate with similar other companies to do all the efforts jointly. Training
programs can be organized by Cookie Co. with other companies so that they can develop their
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business. Ethernet can also help Cookie Co. by enabling the application of online banking so
that online transactions can be done smoothly in different branches. Share the news that will
commonly profit the company that has partnership with the company.
Email- The most important network services is the email service that can be used by
the Cookie Co. For interacting with other branches and sending important information
regarding the company, email service is the best network that is taken into regards. The
webmail enables the users to send and receive electronic-mail from web browsers. The
webmail are easily accessible and has a storage device to store all the emails (Prexawanprasut,
Chang and McAleer 2015). The emails can be accessed by the employees of the company from
anywhere without their usual workplace or location. The user have to login in their email ids
and their passwords to view their mails. The email ids are given in Webmail URL in browser
field. The emails are not to be downloaded from the website to view them.
3. Data Processing Facilities
3.1 Data storage Solution:
The Data Storage solution that can solve the issues of the Cookie Co. is to shift their
network to SAN. SAN is the Storage Area Network which is specialized with a network that is
high speed. Storage Area Network provides a network of block-level so that the storage can be
accessed. The components of Storage Area Network are switches, hosts, storage device and
also storage elements which are connected internally by the use of different topologies,
protocols and also various technologies (Muknahallipatna et al. 2014). Multiple sites are
spanned using the Storage Area Network. Using Storage Area Network, Cookie Co. can improve
their availability of application that is they can use paths with multi data. The SAN network also
enhances the performance of the applications that are used in the company. The utilization of
storage and the effectiveness is increased by SAN network along with giving data security and
protection to all the information that are stored in the network.
The main role of SANs is manage the activities of BCM (Business Continuity
Management). The Storage Area Network gives storage device to host showing that the storage
is locally attached. This helps to simplify the presentation of the storage to host by using
different kinds of virtualization process. Cookie Co. gets a high- speed network by using SANs
which gives network access to all the storage in block-level.
3.2 Data processing Model:
The model that can be used by Cookie Co. to improve the network and data processing
technique is peer to peer model. The peer to peer model provides the company to process the
data very efficiently. Mainly three types of models are used in data processing. They are
multiple peer relationship, distributed peer relationship and collaborative peer relationship. In
multiple peer relationship, all the system in the company are networked or connected with
each other via servers and the files are shared and can be collected from other through that
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network only. The main problem of multiple peer relationship is that they cannot handle data
beach security or issues that are related with intellectual property (Zhao 2015). In distributed
peer relationship group of computers are combined together for the purpose of processing and
computing abilities to surf the internet and also solve problems that are complex. Collaborative
peer relationship deals with a small number of people who agrees to make collaboration via
common interface that includes chat rooms, online learning environment, chat rooms and
online gaming. The best model that can be used by Cookie Co. is the distributed peer
relationship because it has many branches in different places. The distributed peer relationship
model helps to solve complex problems that are related with network and data processing.
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