Design and Implementation of Network Infrastructure for Technology Training Company

This report discusses the design and implementation of network infrastructure for Technology Training Company. It covers network convergence, LAN types, cabling plan, WAN connection, network services, data processing facilities, and more. The report recommends the use of telecommunication and networking technologies to improve business benefits.

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Executive summary
Technology training company provide training based services to consumers, government
organization and private business enterprises. Due to poor networks, performance and
operational processes of TTC they are reducing their productivity and efficiency. This report
will design and implement network infrastructure and resolve the issues and problems faced
by the TTC organization. This report will evaluate the different types of LAN, cables, network
convergence, network services, and data processing facilities. In the end, a recommendation
will be added that discuss the telecommunication and networking technologies used in the
IT infrastructure.
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Table of Contents
Executive summary....................................................................................................................1
Introduction...............................................................................................................................3
Network infrastructure..............................................................................................................3
Network convergence and unified communication...............................................................3
LAN types................................................................................................................................4
Cabling plan............................................................................................................................4
WAN connection.....................................................................................................................4
Network services........................................................................................................................5
VOIP........................................................................................................................................5
WWW.....................................................................................................................................5
Internet...................................................................................................................................6
Extranet..................................................................................................................................6
Email.......................................................................................................................................7
Data processing facilities............................................................................................................7
Data storage solution.............................................................................................................7
Data centre.........................................................................................................................7
SAN......................................................................................................................................7
Cloud computing.................................................................................................................8
Distributed database..........................................................................................................8
Data processing model...........................................................................................................8
Client/server model............................................................................................................8
Peer-to-peer model............................................................................................................9
Conclusion and recommendation..............................................................................................9
References................................................................................................................................10
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Introduction
The technology training company is an information technology company that provide the
training based courses to the government authorities, private companies and the general
public. The head office of this organization is in Brisbane, and a branch office in Sydney,
Melbourne, and Perth. The poor performance and operational performance both are very
common issues faced by the TTC Company which impact on their performance and
efficiency. This report objective is to understand the issues faced by the TTC and design an
advanced network infrastructure to meet the requirements of the company and enhance
their performance. This report is categorized into main three parts, for example, network
infrastructure, networked services, and data processing facilities. This report will
recommend the networks and telecommunication technologies used for improving business
benefits.
Network infrastructure
This section of the report will discuss the network infrastructure and types of
communication networks, cables, and transmission media. According to the complaints
from the consumers and staff, the TTC executives are aware of different kinds of issues
for which they decided to resign the information technology infrastructure.
Network convergence and unified communication
Term network convergence defined as the technology which is used for data communication
within the single network and TTC can adopt the network b convergence technique to
provide the wide range of services to their clients and consumers. Moreover, such kind of
technique can allow TTC organisation to adopt the advanced business models, and enter
into new markets. Cisco network convergence system 600 is one of the advanced network
convergence that provides a way for companies to enable superior network agility, petabits
per second system scale and packet optical convergence. Such kind of technology can be
used for this company because it also supports the programmability and virtualization at a
low cost.
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TTC Company is an information technology organization which provides training based
services across the world for which they can use unified communication technology. Such
kind of technology provides a platform to the TTC and other business industries for enabling
the instant messaging, voice chat and presence information by which they can easily
communicate with their clients and stakeholders. It also provides the data sharing process,
call control, desktop sharing and other features which can help TTC to improve their
communication with clients.
LAN types
LAN is defined as the local area network which is one of the common types of network
technology which can be used for the TTC Company because it is very fast and more reliable
network. The WLAN types of LAN network can be adopted for this company because it
communicates with numbers of clients in a day and it also requires to communicate with
their headquarter and head offices (Neves, Soares, and Sargento, 2009). WLAN is a wireless
local area network which is more scalable, capable and able to communicate with both 2.4
GHz and 5 GHz devices. There are many advantages of this network, for example, large
mobility, faster in speed, the range of coverage, very easy to install and implement and TTC
can easily perform their operations in the business.
Cabling plan
There are many types of cables available in the market such as UPT, STP, coaxial cable and
fibre optic cable. In which fibre optic cable is one of the best cables which can be used for
communication purpose (Keiser, 2008). Fibre optic cable can be used as a transmission
media that has potential to improve security and speed of the data communication and it
can be used to interconnect the head office with the branches through wireless connecting
devices like WLAN, WWAN, and WPAN (Richardson, Fini, and Nelson, 2013). Where these
connecting devices are connected with the transmission media for communication purpose
and TTC can easily communicate with their other branches and clients. The main advantage
of the wireless device is that Company can send and receive data over long distance and it
can be used for the head office to transmit data or information from one location to
another.
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WAN connection
WAN refer as wide area network which is a part of a network that extends over a huge
geographical distance. Wide area network can be adopted for TTC organization because it
requires for connecting their head office with branches. WAN has the potential to transfer
data over long distance and it provides communication over a huge area like country, city
and other (Ramamurthy, 2012). There are several benefits of this network technology such
as large data speed, improve the security of data, improve operations of the head office and
also satisfy clients and staffs by increasing data speed.
Network services
There are major five kinds of network services used in the information technology which are
the following:
 VOIP
 WWW
 Internet
 Extranet
 Email
VOIP
VOIP is defined as the voice over internet protocol which is used for transmission of the data
and information. This technology is deployed for the TTC organization because they
communicate with their clients and branch. Such kind of network interconnects the private
branch exchange with the IP telephony and it uses the local area networks to provide the
voice communication (Thirunavukkarasu, and Karthikeyan, 2014). Such kind of technology
uses the codecs to encapsulate audio into information packets and share these packets
across the internet protocol networks. The main benefit of this network is that it reduces
the overall cost of the network infrastructure by which TTC can involve this technique in
their IT network. The VOIP also allow TTC organization to operate a single voice and data
network and ITU is very best codecs which are used to transfer the uncompressed packets.
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WWW
It is defined as the World Wide Web which is a part of a network that formatted in the
HTML and accesses with the help of HTTP server. In TTC organization this technology can be
used to interlink the HTML pages which can be accessed over the internet connectivity. With
the help of these networks, an organization can share data or information with their clients
and another branch that can help for improving their business benefits. There are many
advantages of WWW for example; help individuals, update consumers and companies on a
regular basis and organization can easily interconnect with their clients.
Internet
The Internet is one of the common networks which are used by many companies to connect
their networks with their physical devices. TTC is an organization that provides the training
based services for which they require the internet connectivity to interconnect their
networks with the clients and other Companies. Such kind of networks uses the internet
protocol suite to connect physical devices with each other and it carries the vast range of
information services like inter-linked hypertext and applications of the WWW, E-mail, and
file transfer. The major benefit of this network is that TTC organization can connect their
operations with branches and head office and they can communicate with clients more
effectively.
Extranet
An extranet refers as the private network which allows access to vendors, partners and an
authorized set of consumers. Mainly, it uses internet technology and public communication
process to transfer information with partners, consumers, and suppliers. TTC organization
can adopt this technology in their IT infrastructure because it is more secure networks that
have the ability to extend the users and suppliers outside the organization. It is also defined
as the state of mind in which the internet is perceived as the process to do business with
another organization and sell products with their consumers. For security purpose, TTC
organization can involve the firewall and encryption technology which are also used by the
Extranet to avoid the traffic and viruses from the networks and enhance the performance of
the communication system. TTC organization can involve the extranet network to exchange
huge volumes of information with the help of EDI, collaborate with other business industries
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on joint development efforts and transfer relevant information of common interest
exclusively with partner companies. The main advantages of these networks are that it
interconnects suppliers, stakeholders and other companies with each other by which TTC
can adapt this technique to improve business benefits.
Email
Email is the method of exchanging information between individuals with the help of
electronic devices (Baskaran, 2009). It is a very common platform which is used by many
business industries to share any message to employees and consumers and TTC can involve
these networks to send and receive information reading their business. Mainly, email
networks collect, store, forward, and deliver an important file or information to the
consumers and organization can easily connect with their suppliers, stakeholders, and
clients.
Data processing facilities
Data processing refers to the process which is used in the information technology
infrastructure to collect and manipulate the data to produce meaningful information. This
section divided into main two parts which such as data storage solution and data processing
model.
Data storage solution
Data centre
A data centre is a process composed of networked devices and storage that TTC
organization use to store, control and process the large quantity of data and information.
TTC organization gathers data and information from Email, social media, and other networks
and for storing these data sets they required a data centre technique. It involves networks,
servers, routers, switches, and storage subsystems. Mainly, data centre technique also
includes the IT network infrastructure, power subsystem, and backup generation. With the
help of this technique, TTC organization can solve the issue of data storage.
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SAN
SAN is a storage area network which is a high-speed network system to control and monitor
the huge amount of data and it also connects the storage devices with the computer
networks (Yan, 2008). Such kind of technology also delivers the block level storage which
can be accessed by the applications running on any networked servers. Generally, SAN
devices involve disk-based devices and tape libraries for example RAID hardware. There are
many features of this these technologies which are the following:
 High data speed
 Interconnect data storage devices with the networks
 Easily accessible
 It can also simplify a few management tasks
 More flexible, reliable and performance (Luo, et al., 2011).
Cloud computing
It is one of the advanced computer technology which is used for storing the data and
information of clients and employees (Boss, et al., 2007). TTC can adopt this technology to
control and manage a large number of data sets because it allows organizations to avoid the
IT infrastructure costs. Such kind of technology is used to access computer networks,
information technology, and software application with the help of network connection and
access data centre through WAN networks (Berl, et al., 2010). Therefore, TTC organization
can secure their personal information and data files from hackers and solve the problem of
data storage related issues.
Distributed database
A distributed database is a part of the database system that consists of two or more data
files located in various sites on different computer networks (Özsu, and Valduriez, 2011).
Such kind of technology can be involved in the infrastructure of the TTC organization
because they need to distribute data and information to companies, branches, clients, and
suppliers. For which Company can involve the DDBMS networks to enhance the
performance of communication by distributing data from one location to another (Abadi,
2012).
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Data processing model
Client/server model
For data processing, TTC organization can adopt the client-server model that partitions tasks
and projects between the service provider and clients. In such kind of model clients and
servers interconnected with the help of computer network on separate hardware
(Goodyear, 2017). In which the consumer does not send any of its sources but it can request
networks content Email, WWW, and network printing all these are examples of the client/
server model. Therefore, TTC organization can involve this approach for improving the
performance of the data processing system.
Peer-to-peer model
In which tasks and projects are partitions between the peers and they are equally privileged
and participants in the application (Liu, Guo, and Liang, 2008). Such kind of model enables
data processing, network bandwidth, and another network system without using an
additional server or network (Holz, et al., 2008). Therefore, an organization can adopt this
technology for enabling the peer to peer communication between the employees, head
office and branches (Sentinelli, et al., 2007).
Conclusion and recommendation
This report is completely based on computer networks and servers and readers can enhance
their skills in the field of network infrastructure. This report designed and implemented a
network infrastructure, network services, and data processing facilities that can help TTC to
improve their performance and efficiency.
It is recommended that TTC organization can adopt the WLAN and WAN networks to
improve data speed and fibre optic cable as a transmission media where they can easily
share any information with the clients and suppliers. Security of data can be increased with
the help of firewall and encryption technology and they should adopt cloud computing for
storing huge amount of data and peer to peer model to process these data.
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