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Scenario

You are a sought-after technical consultant known for your excellent solutions that tailor-fit a project’s requirements, utilising minimal spend, and a quick return on investment (RoI). The board has asked you to attend a meeting regarding restructuring their IT infrastructure and services, given the changing needs during the pandemic and the lockdowns. The board intend to contract you to advise them on a re-design of their online infrastructure. They would like you to suggest a state-of-the-art design that includes new communications technologies and services available from providers.

The system must support voice, data, images, video and audio streaming. The associated costs are required, to allocate a budget which will need to be sanctioned by the management team. The costing accuracy is required to be within ±15%. The Chief Information Officer will be chairing the meeting, it will also be attended by the management team. On the video conference call, you are told: “XX & Co.” is a fast-growing online consumer electronics company with an annual turnover of £4 million and a gross profit of 20%. We are growing and aim for our turnover to be £8m the following year and expect to retain the same gross profits. We are looking to restructure following the changes to business due to the pandemic.

Presently, we have an in-house networking and computing infrastructure. The company is known for its excellent customer interaction and support – a USP that has seen their business grow exponentially in the last few years. There are four core functional components of the business – Management, Infrastructure and Operations, Marketing, and Sales & support. All documentation and business operations are online. The business runs out of a single large building with an adjoining warehouse. The online business is in the consumer retail sector.

The business fulfils over 150,000 customer orders per day on average and about ten times the number during the end-of-year sale and the annual Summer sale. The customer deliveries are handled by delivery companies as per the requirement of the customer orders. All the employees are located in the four-floor building with the inventory in the adjoining warehouse. The Management and admin team is on Floor 1, the Infrastructure and Operations team is on Floor 2, the Sales and Support team are on Floor 3 and the Marketing team is on Floor 4. One part of the sales team that handles inventory and shipping is in the adjoining warehouse.

 

Task

a) Draw a functional schematic indicating the functional sections of the network infrastructure and their interconnectivity. Indicate the various services provided, their type (voice, video, data, or multimedia) and the direction of access to them (incoming or outgoing with respect to the organisation). Specify a list of services provided and profile the services in terms of their data characteristics such as typical data rates, response times, etc. Make appropriate assumptions and state them. This schematic and profile will be the basis of the rest of the tasks. HINT: Research real-world data traffic statistics.

b) Draw and present the network schematic/s. The primary schematic will be a broadly labelled schematic of the entire network. Next, prepare a schematic of the network backbone connectivity (core and distribution switches), indicating their locations. Follow this up with schematic/s of each of the floors and the warehouse. Make a listing of all the equipment used and the approximate amount and type of cabling used. Indicate the make, configuration, and market price of each of the network components. Make appropriate assumptions and state them. Remember to orient the schematics in landscape. Indicate the source from where you quote the price of the equipment.

 

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