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Charles Williams

IT326/ Unit 2 IP

Thomas McClain

10/18/2018

Canopy Lawn Care

Canopy Lawn Care is a landscaping company that has adopted a green approach to the industry. The company is an employee-first company that maintains a great looking landscape in an environmentally responsible manner. The organization uses technology and operations to provide exceptional service to the employee and customer experience. The company is currently reinventing the residential lawn care through providing the quality service to its customers throughout the year. It offers support to the leading crews that have the best equipment, technology, uniforms and the branded trailers. There is need to bring the sophistication, technology, and culture to dated fragmented industry, and ensure that both the customer and crews lives better in the process. The company has a strong culture, with its mission being to facilitate redemption of the home services industry, for both the home owner and the worker. The company’s values is to serve and value others and enjoy what they do (Etutorials, 2013)

This document aims to come up with the local area network linking together several dispersed computing facilities for Canopy Lane Care Company. This is majorly for the purposes of promoting and sharing of the internal resources and providing access to unique resources of the ARPANET. The plan has grown out of the two independent efforts that meet specific requirements which is the support of the VLSI research for the CAD VAX in D8 to communicate with ISRO VAX in A2 and ARPANET. The labnet will be linking together several other existing computers in the office and the new medium sized computers that aims to expand the territory. The proposed local network is effective in meeting these needs. This document provides an implementation plan for a local network for Canopy Lawn Care which will allow for the sharing of the internal resources as of the ARPANET. This is done through first selecting the general concepts of the local networking and highlighting of the selected systems proNET and Ethernet data (Sean Wilkins & Franklin Smith, 2013)

There is the need to the use the two technologies in implementation of this network. The first is the proNet (this is a ring that passes various media including fiber optics links). Its major use is to provide communications between various buildings. This selection was made due to the fact that the facility uses the fiber optic cable as a medium and relatively long in range. The Ethernet will be selected for intra-building network since it more cheaply and comes with a wide vendor support. It is important for the procurement to take into account introduction of Ethernet when procuring the new computing equipment’s. It is important that the new devices to be compatible with or have interfaces to Ethernet since they do help in benefitting from network services while others cannot (Etutorials, 2013)

Before the deployment of any equipment it is important for the following cables to be present. The first is A3 to D8. The existing spare fiber optic pair could be used. The second is the A3 to A2 which is known as the twin-axial cable. The third is the A3 TO A6 which is the new twin-axial cable and finally the A3-130 which is the new fiber cable. The first three cables are apparently easy. The fourth cable, however, possess some challenges in that it involves the removal of the unused security wiring form existing conduit and coming up with a new cable. In case the building needs other connections, the additional cable will have to be installed or be made available for the use in the local network (Etutorials, 2013)

The initial network will use the proNET components which will be linked together CAD VAX in D8 CAD VAX in D8. The ISRO VAX in A2. The APL PDP 11/34 in 130. And a PDP 11/23 Gateway into the ARPANET. This network plan requires eventual connection of the IPD mainframes and the introduction of two minicomputers and the personal computers, the words processing systems and other terminals.

The capital expenditure for the initial network is approximated to between $30,000 and $32,000 for the hardware. This is exclusive the cabling. The software will range between $15,000 and $20,000. The other additional cost will come in ProNet to each additional building $2000, the proNET to each additional computer $2,000 and the cost of the Ethernet ($2,000) which is expected to drop in the future (Etutorials, 2013)

There are plenty number of resources presented in the corporation with many that need to communicate in a certain manner. For example, one classic case is a computer with the power that is enough to provide experimental control and data collection, but do not have the power to analyze data. This means that one has to have a more powerful machine in order to enable them the power to enable them to analyze information. Most of the machines contained by Canopy lawn Care were big powerful enough. The major problems that these computers faced was the incompatibility problems which are considered at times to be more expensive not to use direct connection through local area network (LAN). It is best to sole access to all the computing power that is needed to accomplish tasks within the shortest time possible and in the most convenient way. The major problem with this approach is that the computers that are meant for the specialized tasks such as the graphic display manipulations are too costly. In a means to reduce cost, the expensive resources should be used to provide convenient way of sharing resources among the individuals desiring to use them (UNO, 2013)

The concept of centralizing of the expensive resources is a not a new phenomenon. It has been done in various areas. The aim of the computer network is to provide convenient access to the central resources as well as the other disperse or unique special resources being deployed through the corporation. Together with the internal sharing of internal resources, the network will provide convenient access to several unique resources of the ARPHANET. The electronic mail facilities will be automated (UNO, 2013)

In addition to the need to connect existing resources with the new resources, there will be need for a high speed local area network that will enable provision of the intended service. Upon reviewing the company’s computing requirements, there is need to acquire a medium sized computers. Another computer will be purchased, with its main purpose being to provide a resource to control experiments and reduce the data that is collected in various laboratories. This latter application will be used for direct high speed computer to computer communication (UNO, 2013)

A local area network consists of the plenty of the transmission media and set of hardware and software components that allow for the implementation of the protocols for each host allowing the communication between software entities. The services that are provided by the physical layer include the transmission of a bit across the physical media. The data link layer provides reliable blocks of data and send and receive bits. The network layer- provides routing and switching of packets between host using links and sub networks. The transport layer provides a medium of exchange between the host and the sub networks. The session layer establishes and breaks communication dialogs that exchange bit strings using the transport layer. The presentation layer managers the structured data that are being exchanged. The application layer performs information exchange between application processes (HP Network Switches, 2013).

There are different standard protocols for the first and the second layers. The choice majorly is dependent on the type of media chosen. The two layers are typically implemented in hardware. For the company, we decided to choose the DoD standard protocols for levels 3 and 4. This are regarded as the Internet Protocol (IP) and Transmission Control Protocol (TCP). These protocols are of great importance in facilitating of the communication with ARPANET. With wider acceptance at higher layers there is still hardware implementations emerge (HP Network Switches, 2013).

The local networks works use plenty of media to send signals. This is through the use of the twisted wire pairs, twin-axial cable, 75 ohn coaxial cable, fiber optic cable and the atmosphere. Several arrangements of the media will be used. The topology of the local area network can be classified into bus, ring, star, tree of mesh. The bus technology the media passes by each host. Each host is attached to the busy by breaking cable or tapping the cable in some way. The bus has two ends. A ring is simply a bus with ends connected and the star connects the center node through point-to-point link. A tree may be though to be buses connected together (Meru Networks, 2013).

The baseband is where the signaling could be done or modulated to a higher frequency carriers. It ensures state transitions occur at the least once per bit time. The signals can be propagated in one or any directions in any topology. The tree has a special node at the head-end. Individual stations transmit on the tree with signals propagating in both directions. The head-end then repeats the transmission out towards the leaves of the tree (Meru Networks, 2013).

Media can be accessed through different forms. In the local area network, two types of the demand multi-access schemes will be used which are the contention and token passing. This will allow the packet at any time. The contention schemes have mechanisms for dealing with the case when hosts overlap their transmissions. With the token passing a host could only use a media if it possesses a token. The token circulates the network providing minimum level of service to each host (Priscilla, 2011).

A typical Ethernet implementation employs a coaxial cable medium, a controller and interface, transceiver and transceiver cable as shown in the figure below

This transmission medium is a low loss. The transceiver provides a tap into the transmission medium and modulation of transmitted and received signals. The interface to the controller card is transceiver cable which is around 50 meters in length and carry data and control signals and power to drive transceiver. The controller card provides buffering, address recognition and interface o the host computer. The available software is fluid and in many vendors. The drivers are available for most systems of service industry. There are plenty of vendors that offer higher levels of protocols (HP Network Switches, 2013).

There will be constant network maintenance which involves performing proactive and scheduled network maintenance to ensure maximum reliability and overall TCO by minimizing costs and the productivity losses associated with downtime replacement. Preventative maintenance will include standard support packages. The maintenance will be conducted on the server and storage infrastructure, patch management and security vulnerability testing (C.A.G, 2013).

The network will enable the users to have remote interactive access to plenty of computers, allow for the sharing of data and software through file transfer facilities and electronic mail. The employees will be available to the employees after the local network is installed. Through remote interactive access one can use remote system due to availability of the local terminal. This allows for unique access to hardware and software that is available in the network. In this case software and hardware will incorporate CAD/CAM and other graphic tools such as the text editing, and text formatting.

The remote access that is provided can be made through dial telephone lines at lower data rates that a local network can provide. The machine to machine communication sets the local network apart from other forms of communication. This is considered to be form of file transfer in which data or code is transferred to another machine at high speed allow data generation from one node and processing of data to another node in the network (Ringdale, 2013).

The local Area Network (LAN) provides a high speed connection between a set of computers over inexpensive transmission in a small geographic area. The computers that are attached to a network are referred to as “hosts”. The purpose of the LAN is to allow convenient, inexpensive on-line communication which have become more distributed. This provides the users with the ability to share hardware, software, and data.

Service industry which the Canopy Lawn Care falls into has for a very long time achieved tremendous growth. This is majorly since the resources have undergone reduction in prices over a short time. There is the eradication of single to totally centralized computing. There has been purchase of minicomputer and personal computer (UNO, 2013)

The electronic mail system provides plenty of advantages of the telephone and the normal written forms of the human communication. This is even a robust system. One advantage it provides is that all the parties will not have to be available at the same time for information to flow. The electronic mails is less formal, quicker than memos and letters and flows directly to the interested parties (Meru Networks, 2013).

Canopy Lawn care was launched in 2016, in order to re-image the residential landscaping industry. The company has acquired over 50 jobs in 2017 making it clear that they are on their way to making this vision a reality. The company uses incredible technology to create a record of the property and communicates with their clients (Etutorials, 2013)

This is configuration provides a team to enable people to be dedicated in serving the organizational needs. It enables the client and organizations to have a quick response and no delays. The fact that there is plenty of clients in their client lists, requires them to have robust systems that will enable them to share and store clients data (Sean Wilkins & Franklin Smith, 2013)

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