Assignment

Laplata Trucking Company (LTC), -which provides trucking services throughout the Maryland, Washington D.C., and Virginia area are expanding its business:

-Chicago, Illinois, two-story building with 125 individuals

-Boston, Massachusetts, two-story building with 300 individuals

-identify the equipment that is necessary to extend LTC's Wide Area Network (WAN) to these two cities

Each of these offices needs network infrastructure that must include a graphical design showing topology, network devices, media, and so on.

Requirements are:

-high availability and the best performance possible

-recommendations for installing and for maintaining this network hardware

-considerations concerning the integration of network products from different vendors

Provide a PowerPoint slide presentation of 610 slides with a voice recording. Include text and graphics concerning your proposed design for the network infrastructures at these two locations. Slide notes must explain the diagrams, equipment represented, and associated functions for network components. Include the following in your presentation:

- Title slide

- Introductory or topics of discussion slide

- The goals of this project

- Roles and names of team members

- Primary benefits of the extended network project

- The goals of the extended network project

- Advantages and disadvantages of the solution at each location

- Graphical depictions of each solution given the necessary components integrating the new network infrastructure with the existing network infrastructure

- Overall recommendation and justification for the solutions

- Considerations to integrate those solutions into the current user environment

- Ensure that all citations on slides use APA format.

- Final slide should be References list that aligns with the citations in the presentation