Question

• Based on what you have learned on the WAN technologies, there are three different types of environments that need your help. The three types of environments include a small business, a medium corporate, and a large enterprise environment. What type of technology would you recommend for these different types of companies? Justify your answer.

• What network optimization tools, methods, or techniques do you think will be most important to you as you manage your organization's network? Explain why?

Answer 1

Based on what you have learned on the WAN technologies, there are three different types of environments that need your help. The three types of environments include a small business, a medium corporate, and a large enterprise environment. What type of technology would you recommend for these different types of companies? Justify your answer.

Small Business WAN---- When it comes to a small business WAN you need to first check the area of the business and chose a router that is strong enough for the network range and specifications set by the internet provider. Any business should have multiple routers to widen the range and also gain reliability. With all the devices that are on the network, the business should also have switches to tie the office spaces/ computer setups together within the network. Password for the network is a must like any other private network. Make sure all the computers have an anti-virus that is up to date on them.

Medium Corporate WAN--- When it comes to corporate WANs added security would be beneficial to the network. At this point, you would want to include a VPN (although its beneficial to have this on any business network as the business grows it becomes a bigger target). At this point, commercial routers with built-in security would be better due to the fact more devices could securely connect to it. Switches would be bigger with more ports so that this can have added computers on the network if necessary. Internet should be upgraded to fit the network congestion that may be experienced on this network. You would want to have multiple routers to support the users on the network. A good password is a must for this network set up. Now, if it is a public business you may want to invest in a router that is a strict must for public users, this will keep network congestion down. In addition, you may want to add a business grade anti-virus.

What network optimization tools, methods, or techniques do you think will be most important to you as you manage your organization's network? Explain why?

When it comes to optimizing the network, I believe that the best technique to use is the organization. Organization within the hardware and software setups on the computer will create an optimal network. While the company grows to have multiple access systems within the network would be beneficial just-in-case a router or switch does bad the company devices have something else they can count on as a back-up. Desk set-up and work station set-ups should be organized and labeled so when something goes wrong finding the issuing device is easy and being able to get the access point would be easy.