Time for an Upgrade Who would think that all those empty plastic bottled water bottles lying around your house come from a global operation that relies on their data networks in all parts of the manufacturing process? Riordan Manufacturing is the leader in the plastic molding and injection business operating globally with 5 state of the art facilities in San Jose, California, Albany, Georgia, Pontiac, Michigan and Hangzhou, China. Riordan manufacturing is proud to be one of the leading manufacturers of heart valves, medical stents, fans, and of course plastic bottles. In order to keep up with the competition and be able to supply a superior product for their buyers at in a timely manner, their telephone and data networks need not only to be up to date, but to be able to withstand the network load for years to come.

Current Topologies Each of the 5 locations operates on their own network with a satellite connection to the corporate offices in San Jose, California. Though a couple facilities are not as far back in the stone ages of networks as others, all locations need to be analyzed separately to help build the backbone of what’s to come. Over all, the main focus in this summary is to be able to access any information at any time from any location. This can and will be done with careful planning and lots of network expertise. San Jose, California With 250 employees working out of San Jose, it is one of the better sites network wise. Being the company’s corporate headquarters means it probably was the first to get any kind of upgrade were as the remote sites in china and Georgia would get overlooked. The back bone of the network is a pretty standard 10BASET Ethernet connecting 35 Dell OptiPlex PC’s through two cisco 24 port 2950 switches. The Pc’s are running windows 2K with only 2.6 GHz processors so the switching power of 10/100 suites the network’s