ITM 301 Introduction to IT Infrastructure Assignment: The Hegelberg Dairy Inc.- Ryerson University
Part A: Background
Located in Mississauga the Hegelberg Dairy Headquarters (HQ) was established in 2005 by Dr. Joseph Hegelberg and his daughter Nina Hegelberg, a Ryerson graduate student in Bio Engineering.
The company produces a wide range of dairy products (milk, yogurt, cheese, butter, ice cream) and non-dairy products such as orange juice.
The company's cheese products, Gouda and Edam, and the Ice cream product named Hegel-Ice are among the most popular products sold in Ontario and other parts of country. The company later expanded by opening two other production facilities in Oshawa and Montreal.
Each location consists of six departments: Production, Sales & Marketing, Accounting & Finance, HR, Administration, and Logistics.
In addition to above departments, HQ has a unique IT department responsible for IT services for all locations. The IT manager is a BTM graduate from Ryerson.
And here is the organizational chart for each location.
HQ: This facility consists of four floors: The first floor is the Production (100 employees) department. In second floor departments such as Sales & Marketing (20 employees), Accounting & Finance (20 employees), HR (10 employees) and Logistics (15 employees) are located.
The third floor is dedicated to offices for Joseph Hegelberg (President), Nina Hegelberg (Vice President) and six other senior managers:
Production, Sales & Marketing, Accounting & Finance, HR, Logistics and IT, including a big boardroom for meetings and video conferences.
The IT department (20 employees) occupies the entire fourth floor. This floor is the location of the main servers, DMZ, main network printing and LAN/WAN connectivity devices.
All floors are connected through a fiber optic backbone cable with a speed of 3Gb/s. Each floor is connected to the backbone cable through a high speed switch in star topology fashion (IEEE 802.3).
The entire third floor is networked through wireless 802.11g technology using three access point devices connected to the backbone cable via a switch. All employees in this floor have their own laptop and wireless printers.
In addition there are network attached fax-copier-printer (combined) for floors 1-3. As mentioned above the IT department has the fasted and largest network attached printer.
Except for the production and administration departments, each employee has his/her own desktop computer. Note: the Admin people have their own laptop computers which they carry every day to the work. Also, in production area there are 10 mobile wireless laptops connected via 802.11g for controlling the production lines.
XYZ-Bank is the main financial institution that processes all major transactions for Hegelberg Dairy Inc.
The Oshawa and Montreal facilities consist of two main floors (in each location), the first floor is production (40 employees) and the second floor is dedicated to offices for six other departments: Sales & Marketing (8 employees), Accounting & Finance (8 employees), HR (4 employees), Logistics (5 employees) and administration (5 employees).
The two floors for each location are connected through a fiber optic cable with speed of 1Gb/s. Each employee has his/her own desktop computer. In each floor there is a network attached printer. In production department, there are 5 mobile laptop computers (in each location: Oshawa and Montreal) for controlling the production lines. These WiFi laptops are connected through 802.11g.
PART B: Implementing Network Infrastructure
Your tasks are to network all branches, provide internet connectivity, e-mail services, remote connectivity (WAN connection) between HQ, Oshawa and Montreal, video conferencing and other related servers as described by the following questions:
1) Draw a diagram for the above scenario using a drawing program such as Microsoft Visio
2) Provide LAN solution for each location connecting computers and printers together. Explain all connectivity devices used by your network infrastructure from cabling to routing.
3) Provide an automated IP address solutions for the above locations using a DHCP server. Note: You need to explain how this server will assign IP address to its clients and how this server is related to DNS server.
4) Provide a secure Remote connectivity solution among all locations as well as the main office with XYZ-bank by using an IPsec-based VPN.
5) Provide VoIP solution between the HQ and other locations.
6) Provide secure Web as well as email services to all employees, suppliers and other stakeholders. Place these servers along with the other related servers (e.g., VPN server) in a DMZ area. Note: The DMZ is connected to the Internet through a firewall.
7) There are five main LAN servers located in IT department: A domain server (authentication server), a Database server, a File Server, an Application server, and a Finance server. These servers provide services to all employees as well as managers in thses locations. You need to provide a secure solution for these servers. Use graphical presentation for your solution and explain how these servers are secured.
Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements:
1. The answer should be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
2. The response also includes a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student's name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
3. Also include a reference page. The Citations and references should follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.