BANGHABANDHU SHEIKH MUJIBUR RAHMAN

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY UNIVERSITY

ASSIGNMENT ON
How should be Network Architect and Managed in an Enterprise?
Course tittle: Management Information System

Course code: MGT-303

Submitted By
Name: Shakil Hossain Shovon
ID: 17MGT061
Dept: Management Studies
Banghabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Science
and Technology University, Gopalganj.
Submitted To
Md. Rokonuzzaman
Associate professor
Department of Management Studies
Banghabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Science
and Technology University, Gopalganj.

Date: 07-08-2021
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION............................................................................................................................................ 4

HOW DOES ENTERPRISE NETWORKING WORKS............................................................................................. 4

TYPES OF ENTERPRISE NETWORKING............................................................................................................ 4

ENTERPRISE NETWORKING BENEFITS............................................................................................................ 6

WHAT IS NETWORK MANAGEMENT?............................................................................................................ 6

WHAT DOES NETWORK MANAGEMENT INVOLVE?........................................................................................7

BEST PRACTICES FOR MANAGING NETWORK................................................................................................. 7

CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................................ 8
 Abstract

This section I have conducted the networking process of an enterprise and how it architect
and managed in an enterprise. An enterprise network helps employees and machines
communicate, share files, access systems, and analyze the performance of an IT environment
that drives business operations. A secure, healthy and optimally functioning network is
critical to the success of any enterprise. But with the proliferation of new device types,
applications, architectures and network styles, managing the complexity of a modern
enterprise network is becoming increasingly challenging.
Introduction
What is enterprise networking?

An enterprise network consists of physical and virtual networks and protocols that serve the
dual purpose of connecting all users and system on a local area network (LAN) to application
in the data center and cloud as well as facilitating access to network data and analytics.

Enterprise networking provides fast and reliable connectivity for end users as well as
applications. Applications are increasingly more distributed in the modern network and
security across wired and wireless infrastructure in a business imperative.

How does enterprise networking works

For many years, the main focus for enterprise networks was connecting everyone and
everything to the on-premise, self-hosted centralized data centers where data was saved and
application ran. Enterprise networking infrastructure was comprised of physical appliances,
connected to each other and to personal computers, printers, and lot devices through a
combination of Ethernet cables and WiFi signals. The networking appliances used included:

 Routers: Routers send data from one network to another, enabling network to
network connections and internet access.
 Switches: forward data within a network to individual devices.
 Gateways: provides connections between different networks using multiple
protocols at multiple layers of the OSI model.
 Firewalls: process all traffic coming into and out of a network to block potential
attacks.
 Load Balancer: distribute network traffic among multiple servers in a data center
to ensure no server becomes overloaded.
 VPN servers: establish and terminate VPN connections to provide secure access
to the internal network.

Often, connecting to the enterprise network required connecting to a VPN. The VPN
encrypted traffic between the user and the VPN server, at which point the user cloud access
the internal LAN.

Types of enterprise networking

Some of the common types of enterprise networks include:

Local Area Network (LAN)

A LAN is a computer network that interconnects systems within a small building or room.
Typically used for personal, non-commercial use cases, LANs can also be used as small-scale
prototyping or test bed networks.
You can also establish LANs logically and virtually within a larger network. For example,
each department within the enterprise network can operate a small LAN where multiple
computers are connected to the same switch but decoupled from other departmental LANs.

Wide Area Network (WAN)

Think of a LAN that spans across buildings and disparate geographic locations—even
globally.

WAN connectivity differs from LANs in terms of the protocols and components across the
layers of the OSI model used to transmit data. While LAN technologies are used to transmit
data at higher rates within close proximity, WANs are set up for communication that is:

 Long-distance
 Energy efficient
 Secure
 Dependable

WANs can be deployed as a private or public network and are usually set up by the internet
service providers (ISPs).

You can also have a software-defined WAN, or SD-WAN. This is a virtual WAN
architecture controlled by software technologies that create an abstraction of the virtualized
WAN from the underlying infrastructure components. This technology enables secure WAN
operations while decoupling the performance from the underlying components.

Cloud networks

Most enterprise IT services is delivered from data centers and cloud networks. The IT
environment may be a hybrid mix of on-premise servers and off-site cloud networks. The
cloud stack may consist of multiple cloud computing models—private, public, and hybrid
cloud.

Additionally, you likely employ multi-cloud services to deliver various application

components and services as an optimal tradeoff between cost, performance, and security
offered by different cloud models.

The infrastructure components and software technologies enable the connectivity between
data center hardware, applications and services running across these various IT environments.
The cloud resources and the services running on the hardware are accessed and controlled
over the internet, usually through private and secure network channels (unless used for
public-facing applications).

Conceptually, cloud networks can be seen as a WAN (often an SD-WAN) that may comprise
multiple subset of networks shared or distributed privately among customers of cloud
computing services.

Enterprise networking benefits

Every enterprise needs a unique networking solution that supports the organization’s work
flow, production processes, consumer demand, logistics, etc. with the right network
organization can achieve the following benefits:

 Increased efficiency through collaboration: employees can work together on

shared resources remotely or in an office, factory, or campus.
 Higher productivity: streamlined test with collaboration tools and version control,
to private cloud orchestration with cloud-based applications and an agile internal
firewall, modern networking can dramatically improve employee productivity.
 Controlled access to company’s resources: Organization can deliver connectivity
to applications and data that’s controlled and secured by perimeter and internal
firewalls.
 Lower cost: The combination of server and network virtualization enables business
to maximize the efficient allocation to resources across on-premises and cloud
infrastructure. Enterprise networking includes solutions for analytics, monitoring,
and security that can be installed to further optimize ongoing business operations.

What Is Network Management?

There’s a broad range of hardware and software products marketed as network management
tools designed to help network system administrators effectively manage the enterprise
network. While there’s not necessarily an industry standard definition, network management
functions span a number of areas: network provisioning, network operation, network
maintenance, and network administration. The overarching function is to ensure that network
resources are effectively made available to users and consumed as efficiently as possible.

Network management services are also worth looking into if your internal IT team doesn’t
have the bandwidth to ensure your network is running securely and efficiently. Delivering
stable network management at consistent service levels is a critical undertaking as complexity
increases and cost-pressured IT departments set sights on high infrastructure performance,
availability, and security with a limited budget. If you have limited IT resources, they should
be focusing on the initiatives that better your bottom line.

What does network management involve?

Network Administration

Net administration encompasses tracking network resources, including switches, routers, and
servers. It also includes performance monitoring and software updates.

Network Operation

Network operation is focuses on making sure the network function well. Network operation
task include monitoring of activities on the network, as well as proactively and remediating
issues.

Network maintenance

Network maintenance covers upgrades and fixed to network resources. It also consists of
proactive and remediation activities executed by working with network administrators, such
as replacing network gear like routers and switches.

Network Provisioning

Network provisioning involves network resource configuration for the purposes of supporting
any given service, like voice functions or accommodating additional users.

Best practices for managing network

The best way for managing network is given below:

 Inventory the enterprise: take an accurate inventory of all the devices and
applications in the network. Use tools that can discover devices automatically to spare
IT the difficulty and tediousness of this task.
 Reduce Manual Management: automating network management is considered a
best practice but is far too general a notion to implement wholesale. Automation
should be kept simple, low risk and quickly implementable to start. For instance,
network teams can automate device locators to find out where a device connect to the
network, perform application connectivity checks, verify each network infrastructure
device is properly connected to its neighbor, and find discrepancies between parts of
network configurations and the organization’s configuration templates.
  Evaluate the scope and risk of change: Evaluation of the scope should be
accompanied by a risk analysis. After that, network team should put the change
through a peer review, pre-deployment testing and validation, implementation and
testing, and documentation and network management update.
 Make processes, including troubleshooting, repeatable through documentation:
Documentation is useful is most areas of network management, especially when
trying to troubleshoot issues with wired and wireless connectivity. For instance, how
IT approaches identifying and resolving wireless network connectivity problems
should be documented and repeatable to save time and avoid misconfigurations.

Conclusion
Today’s network has to effectively support high value solutions that carry data, video, and
voice to and from users, which means maintaining superior network service levels, plus
visibility into infrastructure. As result of many impacts of digitalization, the enterprise
network has become increasingly complex, vexing, and difficult for IT mange. New
innovative digital technologies your business is adopting have to be deployed to maintain a
competitive edge, but at the same time, cyber-attacks have to be prevented at every point. All
of these initiatives must be executed on with precision, in tandem with delivering a high-
quality, consistent user experience. So the right network management system is necessary for
this to happen.