As a major marketing and graphic design capital, New York is a tactical choice for the new office. The location will house all levels of business decision-making, executive, tactical and operational and with that in mind our key priorities will be mobility, efficiency, communication, security and smooth accessibility of all WAN resource such as storage, sharing, database organization. The second New York office will require both sharing and storage on-the-go capabilities via the same mobile laptop implementation used by other corporate offices and in-office LAN set up to support office desktop devices and peripherals. Another must-have will include security measures for the executive level of management via access authentication for all devices, data encryption for all files and media functionalities for the communication needs of the business. Certain limitations may include environmental cabling blockage or RF broadcast failure if a wireless network is used. The office …show more content…
This topology eliminates the centralized point of failure concern seen in the star topology so if any device fails, the network will continue to function normally. Based on this advantage, low cost and ease to expand and add more devices to it, I find that the mesh topology will best serve the business needs. In addition, a large-scale project of expansion can be supported by creating multiple LANs and connecting them via fiber optic cabling into a mesh topology (LAN Network topologies, n.a.). This will create a secure network subsystems that can be assigned to each office department, limit accessibility and increase security based on credentials. It can also ease the headquarters IT navigation within the office network for troubleshooting, maintenance and