Assignment #4

Group Project and Presentation

Telecommunication and Internet Management

MIS 467

Students will work in groups of 2 students.Students will find a company and its telecommunication requirements.Each student group will present this project to the entire class.

The group project:

Will be 25% of your class grade

Must be on time

Must include everyone on your team

Each person must have a job to do on the team and each person's job must be stated (verbally or written)

Presentation time should be split equally between team members.

For the project the student groups will:

find a viable and convincing small to medium sized company (20-150 employees)

There may be multiple locations

Design the telecommunications requirements for the company

Focus heavily on the telecommunications needs and not as much on the company itself

Present for a minimum of 20 minutes to a maximum of 40 minutes long (if it is less than 20 minutes or more than 40 minutes your grade will be affected)

Present using college level presentation materials: This should be a PowerPoint presentation; and could include multimedia presentation, graphic presentations and illustrations of your company and the telecommunications required; it could include handouts to the rest of the class

You must create some kind of visional representation of the telecommunications designed and used for the company (Visio preferred)

Plan for the telecommunications needs including:

oFunctionality of voice needs for the company

oFunctionality of data needs for the company

oAppropriate Diagrams

oConnectivity to the Internet

oSecurity

oBackups

oNetwork management

oDisaster recovery

oStaffing patterns

oDocumentation

oOrganizational structure of the organization

oOther activities as needed or required by the company