Network Design Proposal for EZY Books

Network Design Proposal
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Network Design Proposal
Executive Summary
Most businesses nowadays have their own IT infrastructure and a networking system that
connects their users. The network system of any institution will determine the efficiency of
running their operations. An organization’s activities will determine the networking system that
developers will create and its layout for the firm. The layout of the network should assist the
business in meeting the objectives of the company EZY Books is a book publishing company that
wants to change from the old-fashioned ways of paper form in communicating among its staff
and customers and adopt an IT approach in achieving the same. The management of the
organization has decided to set up a new networking solution and do away with the current
structure as it is an old version that will need multiple patches to fix making it costly and may
still fail to offer a long lasting solution to the company's problems (Hou, Qiu, He & Gao, 2017,
p.301). The following is a report that offers an analysis to the factors that the management
should consider in developing the network layout of the company. Any alternative that the
company chooses should be based on the network infrastructure which comprises of the
devices in use, cabling plan, local and wide area network types and the convergence of network
and integrated communications. The alternative should also include the best networking
services that the institution should incorporate plus a data processing facility offering solution
to data storage and a data processing model. EZY-Books should set-up a network layout that
will allow its users to easily connect and navigate through their system with minimal technical
difficulties, and safe connections with strong security measures. Hopefully, the management of
the business will find this report useful in finding a solution to their networking challenges.
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Network Design Proposal
Table of Contents
Executive Summary...............................................................................................................................2
Introduction..........................................................................................................................................4
Network Infrastructure......................................................................................................................4
Network Convergence and Cabling plan..................................................................................4
Local Area Network and Wide Area network...........................................................................5
Networking services..........................................................................................................................5
Network Address Translation......................................................................................................5
Emailing............................................................................................................................................5
Extranet.............................................................................................................................................5
Intranet..............................................................................................................................................6
Data Processing facilities.................................................................................................................6
Data Storage....................................................................................................................................6
Data Processing..............................................................................................................................6
Conclusion and Recommendation.................................................................................................6
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