...Scenario You are a network consultant who has been asked to attend an initial meeting with the executive management team of ElectroMyCycle, LLC. ElectroMyCycle manufactures motorcycles. Its new electric motorcycle was just picked up by a large retail chain. ElectroMyCycle is upgrading its manufacturing capacity and hiring new employees. Recently, ElectroMyCycle employees have started saying, “The Internet is slow.” They are also experiencing problems sending email, accessing web-based applications, and printing. In the past, when the company was small, it didn’t have these problems. The operations manager outsourced computer services to a local business called Network Rogues, which installed new workstations and servers as needed, provided desktop support, and managed the switches, router, and firewall. ElectroMyCycle is now considering bringing computer services in-house and is wondering how its network should evolve as it increases production of its electric motorcycle. 1. What research will you do before your initial meeting with the executive management team? 1. Find out the industry and status of the industry the client is in. 2. Client’s market share in the industry 3. Financial growth history of the client 4. Client’s suppliers and customers 5. Products and services offered 6. Any recent important news on client’s business strategies or focus 2. What general problems does ElectroMyCycle seem to be experiencing? What network design...
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...Chapter 1 Analyzing Business Goals and Constraints This chapter serves as an introduction to the rest of the book by describing top-down network design. The first section explains how to use a systematic, top-down process when designing computer networks for your customers. Depending on your job, your customers might consist of other departments within your company, those to whom you are trying to sell products, or clients of your consulting business. After describing the methodology, this chapter focuses on the first step in top-down network design: analyzing your customer’s business goals. Business goals include the capability to run network applications to meet corporate business objectives, and the need to work within business constraints, such as budgets, limited networking personnel, and tight timeframes. This chapter also covers an important business constraint that some people call the eighth layer of the Open System Interconnection (OSI) reference model: workplace politics. To ensure the success of your network design project, you should gain an understanding of any corporate politics and policies at your customer’s site that could affect your project. The chapter concludes with a checklist to help you determine if you have addressed the business issues in a network design project. Using a Top-Down Network Design Methodology According to Albert Einstein: 000200010270745975 “The world we’ve made as a result of the level of thinking we have done...
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...Top-Down Network Design Third Edition Priscilla Oppenheimer Priscilla Oppenheimer Cisco Press 800 East 96th Street Indianapolis, IN 46240 ii Top-Down Network Design Top-Down Network Design, Third Edition Priscilla Oppenheimer Copyright© 2011 Cisco Systems, Inc. Published by: Cisco Press 800 East 96th Street Indianapolis, IN 46240 USA All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without written permission from the publisher, except for the inclusion of brief quotations in a review. Printed in the United States of America First Printing August 2010 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication data is on file. ISBN-13: 978-1-58720-283-4 ISBN-10: 1-58720-283-2 Warning and Disclaimer This book is designed to provide information about top-down network design. Every effort has been made to make this book as complete and as accurate as possible, but no warranty or fitness is implied. The information is provided on an “as is” basis. The author, Cisco Press, and Cisco Systems, Inc. shall have neither liability nor responsibility to any person or entity with respect to any loss or damages arising from the information contained in this book or from the use of the discs or programs that may accompany it. The opinions expressed in this book belong to the author and are not necessarily those of Cisco...
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