Capstone Project Summary
Acme Produce was established in California's Central Valley, an agricultural epicenter for the state, in the spring of 1950. The organization has been family owned and operated scene inception. Currently Acme Produce provides several services to local farmers and grocers including produce preservation utilizing bleeding edge technology to slow the ripening process, allowing produce to be stored longer and shipped further. Acme Produce also provides a counter part to the produce preservation service providing produce rapid ripening, allowing farmers to harvest produce early and have the unripe produce swiftly ripened, providing the ability to meet delivery dates that would otherwise be unobtainable. Acme produce also …show more content…
Recently Acme Produce has experienced random unscheduled down time due to network outages resulting from various points of failure within the network infrastructure including power surges and blackouts, loss of WAN connectivity, failed hardware and virus and malware network propagation. The loss of network resources and unscheduled down time can equate to tens of thousands of dollars in a matter of hours for Acme Produce. Due to the associated cost of downtime and nature of Acme Produce's operations, several constraints are placed on the implementation of the new network infrastructure. Constraints to network implementation include minimal downtime, migration to new facility should appear seamless to end users, and users at the new facility will require access to network resources at the existing facility to allow for ease of collaboration with team members who have yet to transfer to the new …show more content…
The Enterprise Network Engineer, leading the project, will inventory Acme Produces network resources to locate nodes which may be at or approaching end of life, out of warranty or comprised of dated hardware which may introduce bottlenecks and latency if added to the new network infrastructure. The network inventory and audit will assist the Enterprise Network Engineer in determining which resources can be safely repurposed and which resources should be fully decommissioned. The Enterprise Network Engineer will audit networked resources for both company policy compliance and industry standard security best practices. The policy compliance and security audit will assist the Enterprise Network Engineer in securing the network in an effort to minimize network disruptions caused by viruses, malware and unauthorized access. The design of the new network infrastructure will consist of physical location of hardware resources throughout the new location, Open Systems Interconnection layer 2 design and Open Systems Interconnection layer 3 design. The network design will follow industry standard best practice to maximize uptime and
Acme Produce was established in California's Central Valley, an agricultural epicenter for the state, in the spring of 1950. The organization has been family owned and operated scene inception. Currently Acme Produce provides several services to local farmers and grocers including produce preservation utilizing bleeding edge technology to slow the ripening process, allowing produce to be stored longer and shipped further. Acme Produce also provides a counter part to the produce preservation service providing produce rapid ripening, allowing farmers to harvest produce early and have the unripe produce swiftly ripened, providing the ability to meet delivery dates that would otherwise be unobtainable. Acme produce also …show more content…
Recently Acme Produce has experienced random unscheduled down time due to network outages resulting from various points of failure within the network infrastructure including power surges and blackouts, loss of WAN connectivity, failed hardware and virus and malware network propagation. The loss of network resources and unscheduled down time can equate to tens of thousands of dollars in a matter of hours for Acme Produce. Due to the associated cost of downtime and nature of Acme Produce's operations, several constraints are placed on the implementation of the new network infrastructure. Constraints to network implementation include minimal downtime, migration to new facility should appear seamless to end users, and users at the new facility will require access to network resources at the existing facility to allow for ease of collaboration with team members who have yet to transfer to the new …show more content…
The Enterprise Network Engineer, leading the project, will inventory Acme Produces network resources to locate nodes which may be at or approaching end of life, out of warranty or comprised of dated hardware which may introduce bottlenecks and latency if added to the new network infrastructure. The network inventory and audit will assist the Enterprise Network Engineer in determining which resources can be safely repurposed and which resources should be fully decommissioned. The Enterprise Network Engineer will audit networked resources for both company policy compliance and industry standard security best practices. The policy compliance and security audit will assist the Enterprise Network Engineer in securing the network in an effort to minimize network disruptions caused by viruses, malware and unauthorized access. The design of the new network infrastructure will consist of physical location of hardware resources throughout the new location, Open Systems Interconnection layer 2 design and Open Systems Interconnection layer 3 design. The network design will follow industry standard best practice to maximize uptime and