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Background
You are a small network design company called Wide-IP that is looking for that big break. As the CTO of
the Wide-IP company, you recently made a persuasive presentation of your company’s approach to
designing networks at a large industry event. The CEO of Fiction Corporation, a large retail chain, was
impressed by your presentation. It looks like you’ve finally got your break!
You have a small team of 10 technically proficient staffers with a strong background in project
management, networking, and internetworking skills that include PMP, Network+, CCNP, and CISSP
credentials.
You have been selected by Fiction Corporation to develop a network design document and plan without
an RFP.
Overview
Fiction Corporation, a large national retail chain of 10,000 employees and 500 retail outlets, is migrating
its one primary data center operation to a new headquarters building several miles away. The company
wishes to upgrade its network and correct any security flaws in its infrastructure as part of this move. The
Fiction CEO has informed you that the capital budget for this migration cannot exceed $500,000 and must
not interrupt business operations. What follows is a brief background that will serve as your foundation in
developing the network design.
The data in the center supports remote retail locations, an off-site 100 seat call center and 3 remote
warehousing operations 24 hours a day with annual uptime at 99.9%. Any significant downtime to its
production systems would impact Fiction Corporation’s operations and profitability. From the data
processing viewpoint, the move includes 2 large UPS, 4 RS/6000 AIX application servers, 10 virtualized
servers and 20 PC servers.
The network consists of approximately 500 remote location retail stores connected via frame relay (with
ISDN backup) to 10 routers at the data center running a common LAN shared by the entire organization.
The retail operations…