Network Infrastructure Solutions for Technology Training Company

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of the future network infrastructure for the Technology Training Company (TTC), addressing current issues related to poor network connectivity and unreliable voice calls. The report, written by a network planning team member, proposes solutions for network infrastructure, services, and data processing facilities. It explores network convergence, unified communications, LAN types, cabling plans, WAN connections, and VPNs. Networked services such as VOIP, the World Wide Web, Intranet, and email are also discussed. Furthermore, the report recommends data storage solutions including cloud storage, data centers, SAN, and distributed databases. A data processing model is suggested that encompasses conversion, validation, sorting, summarization, aggregation, and analysis. The report concludes by emphasizing the importance of a robust network to ensure efficient information flow within TTC, supporting its operational processes and future growth across its branches in Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, and Perth.

FUTURE NETWORK INFRANSTRUCTURE FOR TTC
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Executive summary
The Technology Training Company is currently facing problems because of the complaints
that has been received from clients, staff and participants regarding poor rendering of
services that has been countersigned because it lacks updated technological infrastructure.
The company staff are experiencing deprived network connectivity and also unreliable and
distorted voice calls all because of network problems. As a member of the network
planning team, I am writing this report to give solutions and recommendation concerning
the Future Network Infrastructure for the company. Specifically I will explain possible
solutions to Network Infrastructure, Network services and data processing facilities for the
company.
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Table of Contents
Introduction...............................................................................................................................4
1.0 Network Infrastructure........................................................................................................4
a) Network convergence and unified communications......................................................4
b) LAN types............................................................................................................................4
I. Cabling plan for the head office and branches...............................................................5
II. WAN connection for the head office and branches........................................................5
III. Virtual Private Network (VPN).....................................................................................5
IV. Branch gateway...........................................................................................................5
2.0 Networked Services..........................................................................................................6
VOIP........................................................................................................................................6
World Wide Web....................................................................................................................6
Intranet...................................................................................................................................6
Email.......................................................................................................................................6
3.0 Data Processing Facilities.....................................................................................................6
Data storage solution for TTC.................................................................................................6
Cloud storage..........................................................................................................................6
Data centre.............................................................................................................................7
SAN.........................................................................................................................................7
Distributed database..............................................................................................................7
4.0 Data processing model.........................................................................................................7
5.0 Conclusion............................................................................................................................8
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Introduction
Technology Training Company is has been effectively offering training programmes based on
technology to the private business organisations, government establishments and the
general public for about ten years. TTC headquarters is situated at Brisbane and its branches
is based on Sydney, Melbourne and Perth. The company has enlarged its business systems
and IT network.
The training that are offered by TTC is online self-paced programmes and also face-face
training. Despite the fact their training programmes are professional, the company is still
experiencing low performance on their operational processes which has influence the
company negative. Because of this the company intends to restructure TTC’s information
technology infrastructure. There is need to undertake a fresh design for the IT
infrastructure, specifically the networking, is very crucial in maintaining the company ability
to be feasible and persistent in a competitive market. Designing the network infrastructure
would be vital in resolving the existing problems and will also enable and support future
growth and development of TTC. A reliable network infrastructure of the company should
be in a position to connect all devices, branches offices and staff.
1.0 Network Infrastructure
Network infrastructure comprises of a hardware as well as a software resources of a
whole network that would enhance network connectivity, operations,
communication and management of the TTC network. It will provide communication
pathway and services among users, applications, processes. Services and the internet
(Govindan, Minei, Kallahalla, Koley,Vahdat, 2016).
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a) Network convergence and unified communications
Network convergence is the provision of video, data and telephone communication
services in a single network, In this case one company will provide services for all
categories of communication. Convergence is driven primarily by technology
development and demand. Users of the network convergence can easily access variety
of services and select among many existing service providers. Convergence will enable
service providers to implement modern business models, give innovative services, and
gain entrance to the new market.
Unified communication on the other hand is a business and promotion concept that
describe the integration of business communication services like instant messaging,
present information, voice communication, mobility features, audio communication and
video conferencing, desktop and data sharing, speech recognition and call control.
Unified communication is a set of products that give a steady integrated user
experience and user interface that cut across many media types and devices. Unified
communication will allow the TTC to convey a message on the medium and receive it on
another channel or medium. For instance the company may receive an e-mail message
and may choose to retrieve it through a voicemail. When the TTC will be online and it
sytem accepts calls, the reply would be sent through video call or through text or chats.
Otherwise if the company would be offline the message may be accessed via many
media.
b) LAN types
Local area network is a computer network which connects computers that exist within a
limited area like residence, university campus, laboratory buildings or office building.
WIFI and Ethernet are the common technologies that are used in LAN.
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I. Cabling plan for the head office and branches
TTC should use structured cabling system. The structured cabling is known as data and
voice cabling or simply the use of Cat 5 or Cat 6 cables. This would be the wiring system
that will connect the company’s main office and it branches. This would give enable a
good infrastructure for the TTC computer networks and other devices and applications
around the main office and its branches.
Any communication media that, equipment or a multi-media application which may
reside on a network is likely to link to the cabling system.
In Structure Cabling System each socket will be wired back on its individual cabinet and
dedicated to Central Data Cabinet whereby all cables are terminated, although the
cables may be connected via other covering cabinet inside larger buildings.
The data cabinet will be use mostly to keep Telephone System and Network switches, as
well as many other hardware like Broadband Routers, Ups servers etc (Robson, 2018)
II. WAN connection for the head office and branches
TTC have communication problem to its branches because they lack a reliable and
efficient communication channel, this is because the company staff at the branch are
not physically present at the head office and hence they miss out crucial information
and they might feel very isolated from the company. Effective communication between
the main office and branch is very important and must not be taken for granted.
III. Virtual Private Network (VPN)
VPN is a protected private connection that is established from a public network like the
internet. This type of network is cheaper than a wide area network. This will help the
company to transfer information much faster, it will only require the branch offices to
have a single internet connectivity.
The speed and the reliability of the VPN is reliant on broadband connection it works, so
the company would need to invest in a broadband that offer high quality of service.
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IV. Branch gateway
If the branch offices will have more endpoints the use of VPN will be inappropriate and
therefore, Branch gateway would be suitable for this case. This is a type of connection
that will give a wide area network interface between the head office and the branches.
It will give access to the organization’s corporate platforms. The branch network will
offer more benefits though it might be costly to lay down and maintain.
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2.0 Networked Services
The following network services would be deployed:
VOIP
This is a short form for ‘Voice over Internet Protocol’ this is a type of software and software
which will enable TTC to utilize the internet as a communication mode for telephone calls by
conveying voice data inform of packets by the use of IP rather than by outdated circuit
transmission (Haigh, Exton, Ronan, 2018).
World Wide Web
This is an information system that is available on the internet which enable interconnection
documents by the use of hypertext links. This enables the TTC staff and clients to search
information by clicking on one document to another. The WWW will be suitable for the
company because it will be able to communicate in many ways like electronic mail (Wackett,
2018).
Intranet
This is a private network which would be located with the TTC. It will consist of many
Interlinked LAN and also utilized leased lines in the WAN. In other words, the intranet will
involve a connection via one or more than one access computers to the external internet.
This type of network will be only accessible by TTC staff. The information that would be
available to in the intranet in most cases will not be found in the public internet (Yang, Hong
& Guo, 2018,).
Email
Email refers to a message that is transmitted by means of electronics, messages send
through email is conveyed from one computer to another via a network. TTC should use
email to send messages to staff and clients, this is because it is cheap, more accessible, fast
and can be easily replicated. Using email also will benefit the organization because it will
provide effective and efficient ways of transmitting all varieties of electronic data (Sahni,
Wheeler & Chintagunta, 2018).
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3.0 Data Processing Facilities
Data storage solution for TTC
I recommend the company to use the following data storage that are available
Cloud storage
Cloud storage is a model of computer system storage data whereby digital data is kept in a
logical pools. Physical data storage comprises of variety of servers. The cloud storage is
owned, managed and maintain by a hosting company. These providers for cloud storage are
responsible for storing the data and making it to be available and easily accessible at any
time(Borlick, Gupta, Hathorn, Nielsen, International, 2019).TTC should purchase or lease
cloud storage capacity from the providers in order to store, organization, user or application
data.
Data centre
TTC may decide to build a house or dedicate space within the existing buildings that would
be used to store computer systems and related computer like storage systems and
telecommunication.
Since information technology is very important for business operations continuity, it
generally involve backup or redundant components and the power supply infrastructure,
connections for data communication and environmental controls such as fire suppression
and air conditioners (Vange, Plumb, Kouts, Wilson, Circadence, 2017).
SAN
This refers to a Storage area network or simply a storage network which enable access of
consolidated, ‘Block Level Data Storage’. TTC may apply SAN in order to enhance storage
devices accessibility, like tape libraries and disk arrays, it also enhance accessibility to
servers in such a way that devices will appear to be locally attached to the operating system.
SAN generally is a connection of a dedicated storage devices which cannot be accessed via
the LAN by other mediums, this helps to prevent LAN traffic interferences in data transfer
(Silva, Zhang, Winsborrow, & Schultz, 2015).
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SAN does not offer file abstraction services, it only provides the block-level operations.
Nevertheless, the file system that is built on top of Storage Area Network do offer file-level
access and it is referred to as Share-disk file systems.
Distributed database
TTC may also use the distributed database to store. A distributed database storage devices
is stored in many computers that are locate in the same location or computers that are
dispersed in a network of several interconnected computers. A distributed system is made
up of a lightly coupled sites which does not share any physical components.
The systems administrators may dispense a collection of data across various physical
locations. A distributed database may exist in an establish network servers or independent
computers available in the internet. Because of the fact that the distributed database keep
data in many computers, distributed database will enhance performance of the worksite
end-user because it allows transactions to be perform by many computers instead of the
use of only one computer.
4.0 Data processing model
The data processing model I will suggest for TTC will be a combination of people, processes
and machines in such a way that a set of inputs gives a definite set of outputs. Inputs and
outputs of the organization will be interpreted to be data, facts and information depending
on the system interpreter’s location.
A data processing system that would be employed in the organization will involve
combination such as.
 Conversion- these will involve converting data to another language or another form
 Validation- This will ensure that data that is supplied to clients is useful, clean and
correct.
 Sorting-‘’ arranging objects in a sequence or and different sets.
 Summarization- the reduction of detail data into is main points.
 Aggregation- involve merging various pieces of data.
 Analysis- is the collecting, organizing, interpreting and presentation of data.
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5.0 Conclusion
TTC requires network in order to ensure the flow of information. A good network
infrastructure will also help the company to retain and acquire new clients. Most of the
successful organization rely on network infrastructure in order to process orders that are
sent by the client and to maintain the customer records. The communication between the
TTC and is very important and it rely significantly to the network infrastructure. TTC should
consider creating a network infrastructure because ii is a backbone of business process
(Ansari, et al. 2018).
For a company to gain access to the payroll system faster it needs a network system. A
business organization with record of products and services rely so much on software that is
based on internet to manage their business. A good network infrastructure will help in
organizing the company and to ensure that orders are flowing as scheduled and in a timely
fashion and thereby streaming business practises to higher efficiency (Stergiopoulos, Valvis,
Mitrodimas, Lekkas, Gritzalis, 2018).
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