Network ExpansionLaplata Trucking Company (LTC)

Topics of Discussion

• The goals of this project • Roles and names of team members • Primary benefits of the extended network project• Graphical depictions of each solution • The goals of the extended network project • Advantages and disadvantages of the solution at each location• Overall recommendation and justification for the solutions • Considerations to integrate those solutions into the current user

environment

The goals of this project

• To identify the equipment that is necessary to extend LTC's Wide Area Network (WAN) to two major cities: Chicago, Illinois and Boston, Massachus.• To put together the network infrastructure for each of these offices.• To make sure high availability and the best performance possible.• To provide a solution for each location must include a graphical design

showing topology, network devices, media, and so on.• Provide your recommendations for installing and for maintaining this

network hardware.• Explain considerations concerning the integration of network products from

different vendors.

Roles and names of team members

Name• XYZ

• XYY

• XZZ

Roles• To identify the extension equipment and to connect network

infrastructure for each of these offices.• To make sure high availability and the best performance

possible and to provide a complete solution at both the cities.• To provide installation and maintenance recommendation of

network hardware and consideration of network products from different vendors.

Primary benefits of the extended network project • High availability.• The best performance possible. • Make sure proper, safe and sound execution.• Excellent services.• Customer Satisfaction.• Good Customer Relationship.• More Orders.• Business Enhancement.• Revenue generation.

Advantages and disadvantages of the solution at each location Advantages• Wireless medium allow radio waves to penetrate walls (Addison

Wensley, 2000).• Easy installation.• Allows internet access anywhere in the building.Disadvantages• High Cost of wireless technology.• Link error issue (Liu, 1999)

Overall recommendation and justification for the solutions• Wireless networking infrastructure don’t require a medium

maintenance such as, in wired networking.• Guest and clients can easily access without any wire or much time

consumption.• Software available to maintain security of data.

Graphical depictions of each solution

Current Wireless Networking Solution Traditional Wired Networking Solution

Considerations to integrate those solutions into the current user environment• Wireless networking solution is recommended in the current

environment of smart phones, tablet PCs, etc.• Wireless solution allows printing, fax, etc. wirelessly as well.• A faster way to communicate.

References

• Addison Wensley 2000, “Mobile Communications”, Jochen Schiller, chapter 7 “Wireless LAN”.• Liu J, 1999, "Transport layer protocols for wireless networks" Ph.D. thesis University of South

Carolina, 117 pages Discusses schemes for improving TCP performance for mobile ad hoc networks.

• http://www.vicomsoft.com/• http://www.wavelan.com• http://www.lucent.com• http://www.webgear.com• http://www.wlana.com• http://www.zoom.com• http://www.aironet.com• http://www.wirelessethernet.org