Assignment 3: Elastic and Inelastic Traffic

Due Week 5 and worth 80 points

Write a three to four (3-4) page paper in which you:

1. Outline a plan for the development of an addressing and naming model in an environment of the following scenario:
   • Ten (10) departments in a 1,000-employee organization
   • Equal separation by geography
   • Use a common data center of twenty (20) backend enterprise servers
2. Analyze the functional problems of throughput, delay, and packet loss as it pertains to your plan.
3. Analyze and explain how you would use DNS in your plan.
4. Compose a two-paragraph executive summary highlighting the main points of your plan.
5. Use at least three (3) quality resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and similar Websites do not qualify as quality resources.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

• Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
• Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

• Describe the protocols and foundations of the Internet.
• Develop a communication networking infrastructure plan to address and solve a proposed business problem.
• Use technology and information resources to research issues in communication networks.
• Write clearly and concisely about communication networks using proper writing mechanics and technical style conventions.

1. Internet

   Your organization has been given the assignment of interconnecting 10 healthcare facilities in the Gainesville Florida area. These facilities are owned by individual practices which report to a master practice for Gainesville. Sunshine Health Corporation is requiring that these facilities be interconnected for ease of operation and direct reporting of inventory, personnel records, and financial records. It is your job to develop an implementation plan to address inventory control electronically to provide direct results. Corporate has suggested a tablet type device that can connect wirelessly within the facilities and send data directly to the facilities’ primary computer, the master practice systems, and corporate. Corporate has provided these handheld devices to the facilities. They can work through a WiFi connection. It is your job to ensure connectivity of these devices to the facilities computer systems, making sure they populate the right programs. You’ll also ensure transmission to the master practice office and corporate. At the present time all work is sent through fax or is sent through the mail.

   Develop a one page executive summary with network diagram that would be sent to the master practice office and corporate. Is important that this is a cost effective approach. Something such as high speed Internet, FiOS, Uverse, cable, or a business class Internet Service is acceptable.

   The assignment should be 1 pages of content not counting title page, reference page or appendices (diagrams, budget sheet, equipment list, etc.). Please cite the sources that you used to support and strengthen your presentation using APA format.