Designing A Reliable Network Infrastructure For Technology Training Company
Online and Face-to-Face Training
Technology Training Company is has been effectively offering training programmes based on technology to the private business organisations, government establishments and the general public for about ten years. TTC headquarters is situated at Brisbane and its branches is based on Sydney, Melbourne and Perth. The company has enlarged its business systems and IT network.
The training that are offered by TTC is online self-paced programmes and also face-face training. Despite the fact their training programmes are professional, the company is still experiencing low performance on their operational processes which has influence the company negative. Because of this the company intends to restructure TTC’s information technology infrastructure. There is need to undertake a fresh design for the IT infrastructure, specifically the networking, is very crucial in maintaining the company ability to be feasible and persistent in a competitive market. Designing the network infrastructure would be vital in resolving the existing problems and will also enable and support future growth and development of TTC. A reliable network infrastructure of the company should be in a position to connect all devices, branches offices and staff.
Network infrastructure comprises of a hardware as well as a software resources of a whole network that would enhance network connectivity, operations, communication and management of the TTC network. It will provide communication pathway and services among users, applications, processes. Services and the internet (Govindan, Minei, Kallahalla, Koley,Vahdat, 2016).
Network convergence is the provision of video, data and telephone communication services in a single network, In this case one company will provide services for all categories of communication. Convergence is driven primarily by technology development and demand. Users of the network convergence can easily access variety of services and select among many existing service providers. Convergence will enable service providers to implement modern business models, give innovative services, and gain entrance to the new market.
Unified communication on the other hand is a business and promotion concept that describe the integration of business communication services like instant messaging, present information, voice communication, mobility features, audio communication and video conferencing, desktop and data sharing, speech recognition and call control. Unified communication is a set of products that give a steady integrated user experience and user interface that cut across many media types and devices. Unified communication will allow the TTC to convey a message on the medium and receive it on another channel or medium. For instance the company may receive an e-mail message and may choose to retrieve it through a voicemail. When the TTC will be online and it sytem accepts calls, the reply would be sent through video call or through text or chats. Otherwise if the company would be offline the message may be accessed via many media.
Benefits of Designing the Network Infrastructure
Local area network is a computer network which connects computers that exist within a limited area like residence, university campus, laboratory buildings or office building. WIFI and Ethernet are the common technologies that are used in LAN.
TTC should use structured cabling system. The structured cabling is known as data and voice cabling or simply the use of Cat 5 or Cat 6 cables. This would be the wiring system that will connect the company’s main office and it branches. This would give enable a good infrastructure for the TTC computer networks and other devices and applications around the main office and its branches.
Any communication media that, equipment or a multi-media application which may reside on a network is likely to link to the cabling system.
In Structure Cabling System each socket will be wired back on its individual cabinet and dedicated to Central Data Cabinet whereby all cables are terminated, although the cables may be connected via other covering cabinet inside larger buildings.
The data cabinet will be use mostly to keep Telephone System and Network switches, as well as many other hardware like Broadband Routers, Ups servers etc (Robson, 2018)
TTC have communication problem to its branches because they lack a reliable and efficient communication channel, this is because the company staff at the branch are not physically present at the head office and hence they miss out crucial information and they might feel very isolated from the company. Effective communication between the main office and branch is very important and must not be taken for granted.
VPN is a protected private connection that is established from a public network like the internet. This type of network is cheaper than a wide area network. This will help the company to transfer information much faster, it will only require the branch offices to have a single internet connectivity.
The speed and the reliability of the VPN is reliant on broadband connection it works, so the company would need to invest in a broadband that offer high quality of service.
If the branch offices will have more endpoints the use of VPN will be inappropriate and therefore, Branch gateway would be suitable for this case. This is a type of connection that will give a wide area network interface between the head office and the branches. It will give access to the organization’s corporate platforms. The branch network will offer more benefits though it might be costly to lay down and maintain.
Network Infrastructure and Services
This is a short form for ‘Voice over Internet Protocol’ this is a type of software and software which will enable TTC to utilize the internet as a communication mode for telephone calls by conveying voice data inform of packets by the use of IP rather than by outdated circuit transmission (Haigh, Exton, Ronan, 2018).
This is an information system that is available on the internet which enable interconnection documents by the use of hypertext links. This enables the TTC staff and clients to search information by clicking on one document to another. The WWW will be suitable for the company because it will be able to communicate in many ways like electronic mail (Wackett, 2018).
This is a private network which would be located with the TTC. It will consist of many Interlinked LAN and also utilized leased lines in the WAN. In other words, the intranet will involve a connection via one or more than one access computers to the external internet. This type of network will be only accessible by TTC staff. The information that would be available to in the intranet in most cases will not be found in the public internet (Yang, Hong & Guo, 2018,).
Email refers to a message that is transmitted by means of electronics, messages send through email is conveyed from one computer to another via a network. TTC should use email to send messages to staff and clients, this is because it is cheap, more accessible, fast and can be easily replicated. Using email also will benefit the organization because it will provide effective and efficient ways of transmitting all varieties of electronic data (Sahni, Wheeler & Chintagunta, 2018).
Cloud storage is a model of computer system storage data whereby digital data is kept in a logical pools. Physical data storage comprises of variety of servers. The cloud storage is owned, managed and maintain by a hosting company. These providers for cloud storage are responsible for storing the data and making it to be available and easily accessible at any time(Borlick, Gupta, Hathorn, Nielsen, International, 2019).TTC should purchase or lease cloud storage capacity from the providers in order to store, organization, user or application data.
TTC may decide to build a house or dedicate space within the existing buildings that would be used to store computer systems and related computer like storage systems and telecommunication.
Since information technology is very important for business operations continuity, it generally involve backup or redundant components and the power supply infrastructure, connections for data communication and environmental controls such as fire suppression and air conditioners (Vange, Plumb, Kouts, Wilson, Circadence, 2017).
Network Convergence and Unified Communication
This refers to a Storage area network or simply a storage network which enable access of consolidated, ‘Block Level Data Storage’. TTC may apply SAN in order to enhance storage devices accessibility, like tape libraries and disk arrays, it also enhance accessibility to servers in such a way that devices will appear to be locally attached to the operating system. SAN generally is a connection of a dedicated storage devices which cannot be accessed via the LAN by other mediums, this helps to prevent LAN traffic interferences in data transfer (Silva, Zhang, Winsborrow, & Schultz, 2015).
SAN does not offer file abstraction services, it only provides the block-level operations. Nevertheless, the file system that is built on top of Storage Area Network do offer file-level access and it is referred to as Share-disk file systems.
TTC may also use the distributed database to store. A distributed database storage devices is stored in many computers that are locate in the same location or computers that are dispersed in a network of several interconnected computers. A distributed system is made up of a lightly coupled sites which does not share any physical components.
The systems administrators may dispense a collection of data across various physical locations. A distributed database may exist in an establish network servers or independent computers available in the internet. Because of the fact that the distributed database keep data in many computers, distributed database will enhance performance of the worksite end-user because it allows transactions to be perform by many computers instead of the use of only one computer.
The data processing model I will suggest for TTC will be a combination of people, processes and machines in such a way that a set of inputs gives a definite set of outputs. Inputs and outputs of the organization will be interpreted to be data, facts and information depending on the system interpreter’s location.
A data processing system that would be employed in the organization will involve combination such as.
- Conversion- these will involve converting data to another language or another form
- Validation- This will ensure that data that is supplied to clients is useful, clean and correct.
- Sorting-‘’ arranging objects in a sequence or and different sets.
- Summarization- the reduction of detail data into is main points.
- Aggregation- involve merging various pieces of data.
- Analysis- is the collecting, organizing, interpreting and presentation of data.
Conclusion
TTC requires network in order to ensure the flow of information. A good network infrastructure will also help the company to retain and acquire new clients. Most of the successful organization rely on network infrastructure in order to process orders that are sent by the client and to maintain the customer records. The communication between the TTC and is very important and it rely significantly to the network infrastructure. TTC should consider creating a network infrastructure because ii is a backbone of business process (Ansari, et al. 2018).
For a company to gain access to the payroll system faster it needs a network system. A business organization with record of products and services rely so much on software that is based on internet to manage their business. A good network infrastructure will help in organizing the company and to ensure that orders are flowing as scheduled and in a timely fashion and thereby streaming business practises to higher efficiency (Stergiopoulos, Valvis, Mitrodimas, Lekkas, Gritzalis, 2018).
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