ICT120 Introduction to Computer Networks: EZY-Books Network Report

This report presents a comprehensive network design for EZY-Books, a specialized publisher with outdated IT infrastructure. The report begins with an executive summary and an introduction to network infrastructure, including business operations, network convergence, and unified communications. It explores LAN types like Campus Area Network and MAN, and discusses cabling plans, WAN connections, and network design diagrams. The report details networked services such as e-mail, extranet, intranet, and VOIP, along with data processing facilities and data storage solutions. It also covers data processing models like Peer-to-peer and client-server, before concluding with recommendations for future network infrastructure improvements. The report emphasizes the importance of a secure and efficient network for EZY-Books to enhance its overall operations and gain a competitive edge. The report also includes references to relevant research and literature.

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Executive Summary
The report below explains fresh design for its IT infrastructure in EZT- Book company that
employs outdated network if IT infrastructure. To effectively perform a company should
enhance updated and comprehensive IT infrastructure where the system will aid much in
overall operations. Networking in business is a vital aspect since it interconnects various
departments in the organization. The research explains how device connection, offices,
divisions, and staff are connected together.
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Contents
Executive Summary...............................................................................................................................ii
Introduction...........................................................................................................................................1
Business operations...............................................................................................................................1
Network infrastructure......................................................................................................................1
Network convergence and unified communications.....................................................................1
LAN types.....................................................................................................................................1
Metropolitan area network...........................................................................................................1
Cabling plan.................................................................................................................................2
Wide area network connection..................................................................................................2
Network design diagram............................................................................................................2
Networked services........................................................................................................................3
E-mail............................................................................................................................................3
Extranet........................................................................................................................................3
Intranet.........................................................................................................................................3
VOIP.............................................................................................................................................4
Data processing facilities...............................................................................................................4
Data storage solutions................................................................................................................4
Data processing Model..................................................................................................................5
Conclusion.............................................................................................................................................5
References.............................................................................................................................................6
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Introduction
A cellular/mobile network is a communiqué network where the latter link is wireless. The
interface is dispersed over land areas known as cells, each attended by at least one fixed-
station transceiver, but more usually three base transceiver stations or cell puts or. These
base stations offer the cell with the network exposure that can be used for voice
transmission, data, and other content categories (Klein 2018). A cell naturally uses a
different frequencies sets from neighbouring cells, in avoiding interference and provide
excellent service quality within every cell.
Business operations
Network infrastructure
Network convergence and unified communications
For useful network capabilities, EZY-Books needs establishing a secure Local Area Network
(LAN) where business will be performed more efficiently. With prices reducing and a
growing variety of instant networks now accessible in computer stores, siting up a local area
network (LAN) for the small business has not ever been cheaper or cooler. Most LANs will
recompense for themselves even an open network can save EZY-Books time, money and lots
of groundwork. LAN converts more useful with each supplementary user as the company
develops, so will the significance of the network. EZY-Books in their operation level in the
networking aspect will involve buying a server that typically entails an administrator and
also server software (e.g., Microsoft Windows NT or Novell NetWare). A server is essentially
a powerful computer handling the flow of information among all of the other workstations
in the company’s network (Bhatt et al., 2014).
LAN types
Campus Area Network
The type of network appropriate employment by the company is Campus Area Network.
The company having several buildings in the area of operations needs CAN as all those
buildings need interconnection. The company may install routers as they perform healthier
than switches when handling network traffic and preserving bandwidth for other
submissions.
Metropolitan area network
This is type of LAN that covers a large geographical area. The company may decide to connect their
offices in a particular city, and appropriate network type is MAN (Bryman and Bell, 2015).
System-Area Network
The company may utilize this type of network in transferring information/data requiring high speeds.
According to Scarborough (2016) in curbing time barrier in most businesses the company may
install SANs in their company that will connect different servers in different locations.
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Cabling plan
ZY-Books Company requires campus backbone cabling in connecting branches and through
data transmission. Campus cabling is the network segment that typically grants the designer
and operator with the most choices, especially in big networks such as those in higher
learning institutions and large industrial parks. The campus backbone also is classically the
most controlled by such physical reflexions as duct availability, right-of-way, and physical
barriers. Head offices and their secondary branches require active communication at all
times to ensure the smooth flow of data and information. Thus the campus backbone type
tend operating efficiently (Cummings, Hickey and Kinney 2017).
Wide area network connection
The fact that the head office and the branches are far apart in the distance, an extensive
area network (WAN) is required in employment to ensure valuable connections. WANs are
applied in connection local networks and other networks brands together so that operators
and PCs in a single setting will interconnect with staffs/computers in other settings. Several
wide area networks are constructed for a certain association and are secluded while others,
assembled by service providers (Internet), provide acquaintances from an administration's
local network to the Internet. Wide networks creation by EZY-Books will tend enhancement
by application of leased lines where every leased streak end, a router joins the local network
on one flank with another router within the LAN on the other. However these leased
outlines can be very costly (Liang and Yu, 2015).
Network design diagram
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Networked services
Every business in operation should consider an aspect of network services to enhance
improvement of their actual performance. Customers all over the world require ongoing
supportive care from the company support system and this greatly enhanced by
installations of network services. In computer interacting, a network service is a submission
operating at the system application layer and beyond that offers information storage,
management, exhibition, communication or other competence that often executed via a
client-server or peer-to-peer structural design grounded on application layer network
conventions (Morreale and Anderson, 2014)
E-mail
E-Mail is a type of network EZY-Books should mostly consider as it enhances effective
communication between the company support team and the clients in the market. It is a
method of swapping messages between individuals by use of electronic devices. The
company should employ Email capabilities as it is an important technique of business
communication that is fast, inexpensive, available and easily simulated. Engaging email, the
business will benefit from providing efficient and effective conducts for transmitting all
types of electronic information.
Extranet
An extranet is a secluded network that applies Internet technology and the communal
telecommunication scheme to securely share a fragment of a business's material or
operations with suppliers, sellers, partners, clients, or other productions. In enhancing
proper data collection and new production methods. EZY-Books will apply extranet which is
viewed as part of a corporation's intranet that is prolonged to users external out of the
company. EZY –Books will be in a position of reducing the margin of error during
transactions. Extranet will reduce the error margin, mainly when used to offer specific
groups admittance to internal applications (Cordray et al., 2015). This could involve some
aspect as simple as permitting customer’s access to their order antiquities, or something as
composite as processing orders from suppliers and providers. Another element enhanced by
extranet is flexibility. When the company applies extranet in making information and
applications accessible to partners, customers, and consumers, everyone can function at the
most convenient time and place. This self-serve method frees one from unnecessary
conferences and phone tag, and it reduces costs associated with in-person information
conversations. For instance, an extranet may permit support team to provide customer-
service info outside of regular commercial hours.
Intranet
Intranet aspect and expedient application are required in EZY –Books where it will be a
private network aspect only accessible to the staffs of the company. Often, a wide variety of
information and facilities are available on an establishment's internal intranet that is
inaccessible to the public, distinct from the Internet. A company-wide intranet can institute
an important focal socket of internal communiqué and collaboration, and deliver a single
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starting point to have internal and external possessions. The company team needs to share
information and pass important aspect where they operate efficiently by assisting one
another in their part. A study by Bryman and Bell (2015) states that when staffs are isolated
among themselves and management, they tend to turn to a negative mentality which in
turn reduces the overall production of the business. Social intranet software can halt down
these barriers, by allowing direct, transparent exchange of ideas among staff and
management where team members share ideas and productive feedback, and the managers
can interrelate transparently with their staff. Through application intranet network, the
company will be in a position to crowdsource info, identify trends, head off possible issues,
and make healthier strategic decisions for the overall business (Christensen 2016).
VOIP
In facilitating multimedia sessions of communication between the staffs and connections
established EZY-Books may require Voice over internet protocol aspect since it will
effectively enhance better communication. VoIP enhance will improve performance since it
is accessible on several PCs and other devices accessing internet.
Data processing facilities
Data storage solutions
Having capabilities of data storage solution is a vital aspect of business as they enhance
proper and safety data storing aptitude. Company’s information should not be exposed to
all public as there are individuals/business competitors who may maliciously use that info to
destroy company image (Puente, Samdanis and Sayadi, 2016). EZY –Books should employ a
form of distributed database that not all storage expedients are attached to a standard PC.
It may be stowed in multiple computers, situated in the same corporeal location; or may be
detached over a network of interrelated computers. Unlike parallel schemes, in that the
processors are firmly coupled and constituted in a single database structure, a distributed
database system contains loosely coupled situates sharing no physical mechanisms.
Research of Lord and Washington (2018) states that distributed database will enhance
improved performance in EZY-Books as data located near the site of high demand, and the
database schemes are parallelized, permitting load on the databases to be well-adjusted
among servers. (A high weight on one component of the database will not affect other
elements of the catalog in a distributed database)
For proper business operation, EZY-Books should put in practice important aspect of the
data center. The data center is an aptitude used to house computer structures and
associated mechanisms, such as communications and storage systems. It usually includes
redundant or hold-up components and substructure for power supply, data infrastructures
connections, ecological controls, and numerous security strategies. The business currently is
not performing well as sales representatives lack adequate information from the market.
When the company installs data centre, sales representatives will operate as well as they
will be in a position to acquire all information they require from the data centre. The
research of Johannisson (2017) portrays that data centre is incorporated in the system
where all stakeholders of the company will access the required information that in turn will
improve and enhance smooth functioning of the business.
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Data processing Model
Data models anticipated to improve the functioning of the business is Peer-to-peer (P2P)
and client-server model. P2p in networking is a circulated application construction that
partitions responsibilities or workloads among nodes and are equally honoured, equipotent
contributors in the solicitation. This model enhances effective collaboration between the
head office and the branches distributed in the country. The model makes sure that the
head office and branches staffs are in a position to get accurate data from the particular
location of operation (Loo, Mauri, and Ortiz, 2016).
Network services delivered by the company will enhance customer satisfaction. E-mail
capability improves effective client base customer care where various information and
queries are attended through e-mail between client and support team. The network services
also portray efficient live chats that in turn will enhance customer satisfaction hence high-
profit realization at the end.
Conclusion
In business, the competitive aspect is a must consideration where executives should
enhance measures that add a competitive edge to their business. EZY-Books should improve
future network infrastructure since it will portray a wide range of possibility to prime
advantage over their competitors in the market (Rost et al., 2016).
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