- Background
You are responsible for network operations for a SME company. This company has a Wide Area
Network with 15,000 computers across 20 sites all connecting to the internet through a common gateway. Internally the network uses private addresses managed via DHCP. The IT Manager has asked you to provide a report that covers the following items that will be presented to Management.
Therefore the descriptions you use in your report should not be overly technical. You will act as a technology translator to research the technology and explain this technology to a non technical person.
Topics
Five topics are given below. Your task is to summarise each of these technologies and choose one technology that you will provide further detail on. A suggestion is that you might give a half page summary of each topic noting that the intended audience is none technical so any technical words you use should be described clearly. You can then write a further 2 pages on an interesting aspect of one of the technologies. At a minimum you should describe each of these technologies in terms of how they work and what services they provide to the business perhaps discussing hardware and software that supports the technology or is required to use the technology.
1. Wired Ethernet
2. Wireless Ethernet WIFI
3. Network Address Translation NAT
4. Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol DHCP
5. Distributed Denial of Service DDOS
Volume
It is expected that you target a maximum of 2000 words with a well written answer containing in the range of 1400-1600 words. You should make use of diagrams where appropriate but these should not be copied from the internet. You should create your own assets for this assignment. This is as a guide to make sure you do not write too little or too much on each topic. Please use the marks as a further guide to how much detail you should provide for each part.
