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Assignment 1
1/ what research will u do before your initial meeting with the
executive management team?
Before our initial meeting with the executive management team of
ElectroMyCycle we would research their external relations such
as the market that they are in, their customers, suppliers,
competitors, products produced, services supplied, financial
viability, and competitive advantages. By identify the business
requirements, it can help to modify the network design according
to their specific requirement. This will allow us to position
technologies and products to help strengthen the customer’s status
in their industry. By understanding the customer’s business goals
and constraints we will be able to propose a network design that
would meet the customer needs.
2/ What general problems does ElectroMyCycle seem to be
experiencing? What network design principles may have been
ignored when Network Rogues designed and operated the existing
network?
Problems:
1. Slow Internet 2. Sending email 3. Accessing web-based applications
4. Printing
Design principles that may have been ignored by Network Rogues
could include analyzing ElectroMyCycle’s initial requirements,
scalability (the ability of a network to handle a growing amount of
work or its ability to be enlarged to accommodate that growth),
bandwidth (the average rate of successful data transfer through a
communication path), and latency (the measure of the time delay
experienced by a system). I don’t believe that Network Rogues
were expecting the major jump in growth of the company which
was caused by the increase in the production of the electric
motorcycle and unfortunately did not design the network to handle
this growth.

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3/ List four major stakeholder for a new network design for
ElectroMyCycle. For each stakeholder, list some design goals,
constrain and biases.
1.End Users
Design goals – ease of use, good performance, response time
Constraints -number of stations, size of the network
Biases- may only want to use certain applications or certain e-mail
programs equipment preferences
2. Executives
Design goals - increased employee productivity, Increased
profits, less overhead
Constraints - budget, staffing
Biases- biases toward certain technologies, acquisition
3.Managers
Design goals – better customer support, offer new customer
service, ease of access
Constraints – scheduling, politics and policies
Biases – familiarity of the system and how rapidly the system is
available for use
4. Customers
Design goals - better customer support offer new customer service,
ease of access
Constraints - data security, ease of use
Biases - has to be easy to access simple appearance of ease of use
or they won't use it has to look like what the customers are used to
using.
4/ list five questions you will pose to the executive management
team. Why will you pose those question?
1. What is your organizational structure?
Posing this question will allow us to gain an understanding of how
the company is structured in departments, lines of business, vendors,
partners and field or remote offices This will eventually help us
locate major user communities and will suggest users to account for
as well as suggest geographical locations to account for By
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Understanding their organizational structure can also help us
recognize their management hierarchy which will allow us to
determine who the decision maker are.
2. What is your overall goal of the network design project?
Asking the customer for a concise statement of their goals will allow
us to determine the problems they are trying to solve and how the
new technology will help them be more successful in their business.
It will enable for us to understand what the business is trying to
achieve so that we can create a compelling proposal for their new
network
3/ What will the Nerva network be used for?
As a network designer we need to have good understanding of what
the network will be used for and also what network assets should be
protected. We need to know who will be using this network and also
what type of activities it will be used for. with a better understanding
of our client's expectations and needs for the new network thus we
will be able to concentrate on exactly what they are looking for and
design the network per their request.
4/ What is the expected budge for this project?
We need to know how much customers budget to meet with their
network requirement. Their budget should include allocations for
equipment purchases, software licenses, maintenance and support
agreements, testing, training, and staffing. It should also include
consulting fees and fees for outsourcing, In order for this project to
be successful we have to try to stay in the company's bud get and
chose the most affordable solution determined by their budget.
5/. May we obtain your security policy?
We would ask the executive management team for a copy of their
security policy so that we would able to get a better understanding of
how the policy will affect the new design, how the new design would
affect the policy, and whether or not the policy is too strict to where
we won't be able to do our job.