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Company Descriptionacme Manufacturing Company Is A Small Manufacturin Company Description: Acme Manufacturing Company is a small manufacturing company that makes widgets for all known industries. It purchases designs from other companies of products already in production and then takes over their manufacturing. Acme has three facilities. They are 1. Manufacturing – 250 workers are located in West Plains, MO at a plant that is 1000ft x 2000ft. Working two shifts a day, 16 hours a day, and 6 days a week, there are 10 managers and 10 shipping personnel at the facility. Computers are used on the manufacturing machines, with machines changing their basic programming about 3 times per day. Most manufacturing personnel do not have access to the computers outside of their use for producing product. You can assume the following for the facilities: Facility Average a Average L Average Web Cache Rate Columbia, MO 1500/s 35Mb .6 Kansas City, MO 20k/s 1.25Mb .25 West Plains, MO 30k/s 1500b .35 In general: 1. p(packet_loss) = 5 x . 3. 4. Estimated delay time for getting information from the network is 1.2s 5. Average caching time, if used, is 5ms 6. The distance a bus can transmit data should be calculated at 70m 7. Wireless can transmit 80m for large transmitters, 10m for local wireless routers 8. Cost per foot of installed media is $8 9. Cost of Cat 5 cable is $2/ft 10. Cost of Optical fiber is $9/ft 11. Cost of the average switch is $. Cost of an average router is $. Cost of an average web cache is $15, 12. Cost of a Smart router for star and star wired ring configurations is $42, 13. Cost of ring software is $. Cost of an optical end point for nodes is $100 (one used for every port) 14. Maximum length of transmission possible for any media is 80m 15. Human costs are $10/m of media installed and $300 per switch installed. Instructions: You have been selected to design the networking for connecting the employees and facilities of Acme Manufacturing Company and transferring data as needed for the company. Your company has been given the following guidance for the job: 1. The priorities for the new network are a. Facilitate business data between facilities, b. Allow for ease of connection for sales and marketing, c. Fast response to and from the internet, d. A packet switching network that will easily interface with the Internet to keep costs low and interoperability high, e. Minimize the delay of data in the network, and f. Maximize network utilization. 2. Your budget is NOT TO EXCEED $250,000 in equipment and materials, and 3. You do not have to use the same network topology for the entire network grouping. Each location, and different areas at the same location, may have different topologies. Your report to Acme will contain the following: 1. An analysis of the networking needs of the company. This will include a. The needs of each facility, b. Security issues for the facilities and networks, c. Traffic intensity at routers/switches, d. Summary of reliability needs for the facility and the network, and e. Your


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