Final Project

Final project

Introduction

The local network in a business provides a business with a leadership platform, along with the forum for all of its members. This enables the people from different businesses to develop joint problem solving strategies for their businesses, by sharing their expertise, knowledge, and experiences with each other. Along, with this the local network seeks to hold regular events for educating the people along with providing a list of networking opportunities for all the local signatories. Further, it will guarantee through its actions that it becomes an essential voice and part of the decision making process of the local government. In short the major role of the Global compact principles is to work for advancements regarding efficient development of the business inside the locality (Miller 2006).

Requirements Analysis

The first thing that should be done in a requirements analysis is to identify and list the benefits to be derived and the problems to be solved with the implementation of a LAN. No single aspect of network design is more important than fully understanding the needs of the use~. The network design is the product and the user is the customer. The network is built for the users and it must conform to their needs in meeting security assistance mission and organizational goals (Russinovich & Solomon 2005). In designing a LAN, one should first list the detailed functional requirements that the LAN users must have. The following examples of such needs are provided:

External communications to access the external Security Assistance Network, as well as numerous other programs accessed through DDN MILNET.

Internal communications (e-mail).

File sharing capability between offices or persons etc.

Organizational scheduling program for personnel.

Listing these requirements will assist in determining the technical specifications of the computer hardware and software needed in the design process. The next step is to perform an inventory of all presently available hardware and software. One of the purposes of this inventory is to determine the feasibility of upgrading current hardware to be used with the new LAN. A good example of the issue might involve an existing 486 computer with four megabytes of Random Access Memory (RAM). Although this computer may be slow in accessing database and word processing applications interactively. It could be upgraded with additional RAM and used as print server or mail server on the new LAN. This is more cost feasible than purchasing a new computer to perform the batch processing functions of printing or mail serving (Chamberlain 2008).

Printers should also be considered when determining hardware requirements. Most of the printers shipped from a factory are configured with only 2 megabytes of memory. A network interface device is needed to connect the printer to the network if the printer is not physically attached to a client computer on the network. Additional memory will be required to print any type of extensive graphic presentations. I have upgraded the RAM on several of the DISAM network printers from 2 MB to 32 MB of RAM and occasionally still experience problems ...