Design of a Computer Network for an Accounting Firm Project Objectives: Design a local area computer network for a business envirooment Learn to select networking equipment Learn to optimize a design based on cost constraints Leara to write a business letier and price quotation for a setworking project Project Description: You are asked to design a computer network (peer-to-peer or firm ia the city of Font Valley, GA. The fim has 6 employees (including the president) Each employee has a compyter with Windows XP and a low cost ink jet printer. The company has a good color laser jet printer located in the socretary's office. Currently, the employees need submit their document on a jump drive, or CD to the secretary for quality printouts. The president of the company makes it clear to you that he wants to be the last one to get disconnected from the color laser printer because of any technical difficulty in the network or a failure in a networking device. He also makes it clear that he does not want to place the laser prieser in his office. The president also explains it to you that presently they do not have a system to backup importanm files in all computers. He would like to see a cost effective way of designing a computer network and doing file backups for his firnm You visit the firm to make the initial evaluation of the site as well as the firm's hardware and software systems. You nocice that the compaters are all Pentium machines running at800 MHz with 512 MB in RAM. You also notice that all computers have 10Mbs network interface cand. The color laser printer has 64 MB in RAM (expandable to 256 MB): however, it can not be darectly connected to the network because it is does not have a network interface port. You draw a map of the sine (as showa in Figure 1) and promise the firm's president to give him your network design and price quotation in throe days Assignmests 1. Write a professional leter to the CEO of the company explaining how you woukd design a setwork for this firm. In your leter you need so justify why your suggested network selection (e-g: peer-to-peer, client/server, or wireless) is suitable for this firm Also, in the letter you need to address the CEO's demands as mentioned is the above, In doing neal world projects, you need to give options to your clients. Thos, provide two medhods of designing this network (e-g: low cost and premium) and explain the advantages and disadvantapes of each method 2. Attach to the letter, the drawing (schematic) of a network layout for this project showing the paths of wires and the location of network-closet (You may use Visio software foe this task). . Attach to the letter, a professional price quotation to implement the design of each network Use a spreadsheet software system sach as Excel that contains price quotation semplaces to create the price quotations. You may need to check with www.odw.com to find the prices of 9 Design of a Computer Network for an Accounting Firm Project Objectives: Design a local area computer network for a business envirooment Learn to select networking equipment Learn to optimize a design based on cost constraints Leara to write a business letier and price quotation for a setworking project Project Description: You are asked to design a computer network (peer-to-peer or firm ia the city of Font Valley, GA. The fim has 6 employees (including the president) Each employee has a compyter with Windows XP and a low cost ink jet printer. The company has a good color laser jet printer located in the socretary's office. Currently, the employees need submit their document on a jump drive, or CD to the secretary for quality printouts. The president of the company makes it clear to you that he wants to be the last one to get disconnected from the color laser printer because of any technical difficulty in the network or a failure in a networking device. He also makes it clear that he does not want to place the laser prieser in his office. The president also explains it to you that presently they do not have a system to backup importanm files in all computers. He would like to see a cost effective way of designing a computer network and doing file backups for his firnm You visit the firm to make the initial evaluation of the site as well as the firm's hardware and software systems. You nocice that the compaters are all Pentium machines running at800 MHz with 512 MB in RAM. You also notice that all computers have 10Mbs network interface cand. The color laser printer has 64 MB in RAM (expandable to 256 MB): however, it can not be darectly connected to the network because it is does not have a network interface port. You draw a map of the sine (as showa in Figure 1) and promise the firm's president to give him your network design and price quotation in throe days Assignmests 1. Write a professional leter to the CEO of the company explaining how you woukd design a setwork for this firm. In your leter you need so justify why your suggested network selection (e-g: peer-to-peer, client/server, or wireless) is suitable for this firm Also, in the letter you need to address the CEO's demands as mentioned is the above, In doing neal world projects, you need to give options to your clients. Thos, provide two medhods of designing this network (e-g: low cost and premium) and explain the advantages and disadvantapes of each method 2. Attach to the letter, the drawing (schematic) of a network layout for this project showing the paths of wires and the location of network-closet (You may use Visio software foe this task). . Attach to the letter, a professional price quotation to implement the design of each network Use a spreadsheet software system sach as Excel that contains price quotation semplaces to create the price quotations. You may need to check with www.odw.com to find the prices of 9
