WAN Design
Company Overview
The plan under displays the main procedures involved in developing a WAN for Acme Production. The company’s six different buildings in six different places need to be networked jointly. There is a necessity of communication between all the distant places and the head office building. Two of the headquarters are situated in Atlanta, Georgia. In these two building located across the street from one another, one of these is the head office building and the other is the engineering building.
Logical Network Setup and Locations Interconnection
A LAN setup having routers and Ethernet wires will be the selection. This is a sensible selection since the speeds of the network will be significantly greater and consequently will lead to a reduced amount of expense. Other three places are the distribution offices that are situated in Chicago, Phoenix, and New York. Satellite communication will be the selected form of link with the head office building. The final division is the plant facility that is situated in China. For this, developing satellite as well will be utilized to interact to the headquarters network. On an overall note, all places must be interconnected that allows function flow between each other. This lets simple interaction to be achieved for specific requirements, for orders and manufacturing. Moreover, it reduces substandard interaction that happens in delivering messages.
The network topology utilized for Acme’s WAN must be a star topology with every site having just a direct link with headquarters; the advantage is that network management is centralized. My suggested WAN topology for Acme Manufacturing is displayed in figure one below.
WAN Design 3
Figure 1 - Proposed WAN Topology for Acme Manufacturing
 The organization would take advantage of the T1 kind of leased lines. This is the kind which makes available a high