Harriet’s Fruit and Chocolate Company was established in 1935 in the Pacific Nor

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Harriet’s Fruit and Chocolate Company was established in 1935 in the Pacific Northwest of the United States to ship gift baskets of locally grown peaches and pears to customers in the United States. The company also makes chocolates and baked goods to include in the gift baskets. It has grown extensively over the years and is currently one of the biggest companies the Pacific Northwest.

Recently, Harriet’s descendants, who still run the company, have identified a need to immediately report when fruit is starting to ripen and should be placed in cold storage. Employees in the marketing department have identified a need to access inventory data for the fruit in the orchards and in cold storage. With this data, they can design and sell gift-basket products that take advantage of the ripe fruit. This data must also be fed into e-commerce applications so that web orders can correctly specify product availability.

In addition, the company recently hired an ambitious programmer who is anxious to use her knowledge of SAS programming, SQL, and DB2 to design reporting applications for senior management. She calls you every day with new ideas on what she could accomplish if the network were upgraded so that she could reach up-to-date data from the orchards and cold storage buildings.

As the network designer for this company, you have been charged with selecting network technologies to reach the orchards and cold storage buildings. Each of the six orchards has a shack with one or two standalone PCs and a printer. The three cold storage buildings are huge warehouses that include a few standalone PCs and printers. The local telephone company has suggested that you lease fractional T1 lines, but these links are expensive and possibly beyond your budget. Wireless technologies are also possible, but you have heard that fruit trees, especially full-grown trees that are tall and leafy, can absorb a wireless radio frequency (RF) signal. You have also heard that the cold storage buildings have ice hazards making it hard to install equipment. But you will not let these challenges faze you.

What investigation will you do with regard to the physical infrastructure of the orchards, the   orchard shacks, and the cold storage buildings?

Make a list of business goals for Harriet’s Fruit and chocolate Company. What are some constraints that will affect these goals?

Make a list of technical goals for Harriet’s Fruit and chocolate Company. What tradeoffs might you need to make to meet these goals?

Will a wireless solution support the low delay that will be needed to meet the needs of the applications? Defend your answer.

What security concerns should you bring up as you design the network upgrade?

Need help ASAP please!

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1>What investigation will you do with regard to the physical infrastructure of the orchards, the   orchard shacks, and the cold storage buildings?

Answer:

To the physical infrastructure what I will investigate in the existing network, is the communication between the orchards, the orchards shacks and the cold storage. Considering the sharks as well as the cold storage buildings have standalone PC’s , this means that the probable means of records would be hardcopies which will have to be stored in a designated office. As a network designer, I would implement a network that will, if not fully, eradicate paperwork thus having a database which any of the authorized users can view as well as edit according to what rights they have been given by the systems admin.

As a network designer, I would want to know how the fruits reach the warehouse and how they are received. For this scenario, many ways can arise e.g the communication between the warehouse and supervisor at the orchards can be either a simple Telephone call telling them that they should be expecting fruits from the orchards or Orchards supervisors can have smart phones which they can fill the details of the dispatch and send it to warehouse manager via internet.

Assuming the supervisor will just do a simple telephone call (assuming we working on affordability), the fruits will reach the bay of the warehouse where they are loaded to a conveyor belt where they are cleaned as the quality expert team sorts out what to be stored in warehouse i.e pick the good fruits. Once they pass through the check, they are packed into a box which has a barcode thus its scanned before storing it in the warehouse. Here I have introduced a barcode scanner which will always update a database. Since we have access to the backend of the company’s website , once the goods are verified and scanned, the upload is done real time to the website thus the clients can be able to order the fruits as well as products from confectionery if they don’t want them as gift basket products.

2>Make a list of business goals for Harriet’s Fruit and chocolate Company. What are some constraints that will affect these goals?

Answer: Goals for Harrit Fruits and Chocolate Company Includes:

constraints that may affect these goals include:

As a network designer, I know the importance of redundancy as it will always keep their e-commerce application always available but the resources might be limited thus expected to work with the company’s budget.

When we establish a network, they will have to recruit an IT support team which should maintain the smooth running of the network. These are additional costs of hiring , training as well as adding more people in the payroll.

3>Make a list of technical goals for Harriet’s Fruit and chocolate Company. What tradeoffs might you need to make to meet these goals?

Answer:

Tradeoffs that I might need to make in this case will be between availability, affordability and security.

For an e-commerce to be readily available, it needs to be in a powerful web server where millions and millions can access it at same time without fail. For this to happen we need to purchase a powerful server or we entrust it to a third party –like cloud computing, just as amazon does. This will definitely raise the costs (affordability) as also the third party will charge you.

Another tradeoff is between security and affordability: For a high security infrastructure, a lot of money has to be available.

4>Will a wireless solution support the low delay that will be needed to meet the needs of the applications? Defend your answer

Answer:

I would prefer a wired solution like fiber where am sure of large bandwidths as well as undistorted signals over a long distance.

Wireless solution which maybe might be viable is the satellite. This will be a heavy cost to both implement and maintain.

5>What security concerns should you bring up as you design the network upgrade?

Answer:

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