Question

Scenario:

Congrats! You've been hired as a networking technologist for OCDSB. Your first order of business will be to evaluate the current status of OCDSB’s networks. OCDSB has three offices, one in Toronto, which is the corporate headquarters, one in Vancouver, and another in Montreal. You are aware that there are plans to open two additional offices in Ottawa and Quebec City. You have asked Brandyn, the Toronto office LAN administrator, for help in your analysis. However, Brandyn has told you that he is very busy and not able to provide you with much support. He also indicates that there is little written documentation as to how the various offices are set up. Following is his brief description of the Toronto office. Later you will visit the Vancouver and Montreal offices to determine how they are configured. For now, Brandyn tells you they have a similar, though smaller, set-up: Vancouver has 20 hosts and Montreal has 15 hosts. The corporate office in Toronto is the oldest. It has 30 hosts. After four months of offices integration, the president McClane called you for a meeting with offices managers to listen to their network problems and complains they had received from some potential clients. Some of these problems are service unavailability for few seconds, some images and videos arrive corrupted, picture freezing, voice overlapping and so on. After this meeting, McClane requested you to review the Service Level Agreements (SLAs) with ISPs to overcome these problems. Beside, McClane requested you to put restriction on download some unnecessary and unrelated to the company function (as example you tubes) by some employees to avoid any momentary traffic peak over capacity. You met with Brandyn to assess the technical way he normally use to check the availability and latency for any host or router in the network. You learned from him that he still use Ping software built within the operating system. As the network expanded after integration, manually pinging a wide range of hosts and routers could take a prohibitive amount of time.

Q1) What are the main challenges would you expect OCDSB might encounter after offices Internet integration?

Answer 1

Main challenges :

1. Even after integration, manually pinging a wide range of hosts and routers could take a prohibitive amount of time.
2. Because of the corporate office in Toronto is the oldest and It has 30 hosts, people may have received some problems like service unavailability for few seconds, some images and videos arrive corrupted, picture freezing, voice overlapping, and so on.
3. There are plans to open two additional offices in Ottawa and Quebec City, we don't know what will happen in this new office.