Form 4 - Computer Networks & Communication Project

QUESTION

Company Excell plans to network their computers and share their hardware resources. Excell is an advertising firm and owns a building of 3 storeys. You are to design a network to accommodate the following devices:

11 personal computers

3 laser color printers

2 plotters

3 scanners

3 B/W laser printers

Suggest the additional network hardware you may need.

PROPOSAL STRUCTURE (SAMPLE)

1.0 Introduction

The background or the nature of the company.

What the company is going through

What are the needs or the requirements of the company, or you can also list the demands

2.0 Contents

Strength

- The company has many/a good variety of computer hardware, which could be shared across the management.

- The company has already implemented a basic network structure

Weaknesses

- The computers or the hardware in the company is not properly managed. There is no assigned IP (network address) assigned to the computer which makes it hard to interconnect to the router and to manage it from a console.

- The company network system is mainly wired based which requires many consealing task to be done, in which makes it hard to replace, or to remove any redundant wires from the network which could cause confusion and congestion.

Opportunities

- There is room to expand the network.

- propose that the new network is made wireless instead of wired – which encourages and promotes mobility.

Threats

- If the system goes wireless, it opens the possibility for neighboring competitors or companies to intercept data transmitted across the company.

3.0 Conclusion

Your Final Verdict

- The proposed plan would require a time span or frame of 3-4 weeks to implement and transit to the new system or network architecture.

- Phase out implementation… you implement the system phase by phase… or you can go by floor by floor…

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Hope the above helped...

Thanks, God Bless!

Warmest Regards,

Teacher Abel