CIS53008 –Management of Information Technology Services Report 1 SUBMITTED BY: NAME: MANINDER SINGH STUDENT ID: 16333 TABLE OF CONTENT ABSTRACT 2 2 INTRODUCTION 2 3 CONTEXT................................................................................................................3 4 CONCLUSION......................................................................................................... 5 REFERENCES 7 ABSTRACT Business communication is the need of the hour and a major factor which decides the fat of the organization. One of the benefits of the digital period is broadly spread simplicity of communication from one end to the vast distant locations. We have seen a transformation in correspondence, digitalization, globalization, socialization, access to quick web, video calling, remote information exchange, top quality media content. Everything turns into a probability in view of NETWORKING. Networking innovation has enhanced the method for correspondence between individuals from the same or diverse associations, they can convey in a matter of seconds for teaming up the work exercises. In workplaces, arranged PCs are filling in as the spine for the everyday correspondence start to finish level of association. Diverse sorts of programming can be introduced which are helpful for transmitting messages and messages at quick speed. INTRODUCTION Computers, business media transmission and data systems are basic to the achievement of organizations, both expansive and little. They interface individuals, bolster applications and benefits, and give access to the assets that keep the organizations running. To meet the everyday necessities of organizations, systems themselves are winding up noticeably very perplexing. Arrange engineering nowadays are essential review. Outlining and arranging Network engineering is a mammoth undertaking, as while planning the system of an association, the modelers need to consider the different elements like achievability, adaptability, cost, time slip by, land, human asset and so on. Additionally the touchy development of systems administration, and especially of the Internet, has been joined by an extensive variety of internetworking issues identified with directing, asset reservation, and organization. This document will help us to understand the business telecommunication and Network architecture of a University which has more than 5,000 users/employees. Along with that we will understand the network architecture of a small software development organization which has 80 employees. This document will explain the network needs and requirements of the organization considering the factors like cost, feasibility, human resource, scalability etc. The University: The University is a big university running multiple courses in its vicinity. It has multiple buildings, a General Hospital, a Multi specialty Hospital, Administrative block, Residential area, Hostels, a school and shopping mall. The University has two more Universities running under the same name in two different states. The University has more than 12,000 students enrolled in different courses. The University has enabled a WLAN system using wifi. Also it has enabled LAN/WAN system. On the other hand the software company has 70 computers connected with Internet. The company has allowed some of its employees to bring laptops (BYOD). The company deals in software development and web services. The company has its client all over the country. This document gives us an understanding of how business telecommunication and internet network helps in managing the organization by connecting with clients, customers, students, employees etc. CONTEXT Since ages, communication has been the key to success of any organization. The speed and clarity of the communication decides the fate of the organization. The organizations always grow fast with clear and fast communication. Earlier the communication was either vocal or handwritten, but with the passage of time various technologies were introduced for communication. These days we are equipped with technologies like Fax, phone, email, VOIP, Video conferencing etc. These technologies have played an important role in revolutionizing communication. Now the communication has become clearer and faster. In this document we have compared the two different organizations with different needs and different services. One organization is a University which deals in education of the students with the mission of providing quality education. There are more than 15,000 students studying in the campus and more than 5000 employees work for achieving the mission of the University. On the other side, there is a small company which serves its clients by providing Software development and Web based services. The company has 80 employees who are developing software for the clients of the company. Business Communication in the University: For most Institutions, the focal mission is to give an excellent educating and learning condition for understudies. Past that, Institutions should be well run, effective, dynamic organizations. There are different necessities of understudies and workers in an Institution. Taking after is the part of business correspondence and system by which grounds system can enhance and reinforce a foundation. Full access to knowledge . The presence of a grounds organize improves educating, learning, and research by permitting personnel, understudies, and staff to have participatory access to data and mechanical assets on the grounds and in the group, area, country, and world. The system dispenses with physical disconnection, and permits understudies of the University to have a similar sort of data get to that any understudy anyplace has. Without this get to, foundations of advanced education could progress toward becoming street murder along the data interstate. A foundation that does not take an interest in the data age will just not be feasible in the 21st century. Improved Communication. A system upgrades the grounds climate by enhancing correspondence among personnel, staff, and understudies. For instance, workforce and understudies can have nearer contact and better correspondence, even on little grounds that pride themselves on this kind of instructive collaboration. Multi-disciplinary courses can be arranged, encouraged, and even in part instructed by personnel to-staff and workforce to-understudy electronic mail discussions. Workforce and staff can all the more effectively get in touch with each other, without the average circumstance of phone tag. Understudy gatherings can mastermind gatherings, personnel can disseminate assignments to understudies, understudies can hand over assignments, library books can be requested from between library credit - these are only a couple of the numerous ways that grounds exercises are encouraged by correspondence over a grounds arrange. Improved and efficient Administration. A system advances managerial proficiency by giving access to institutional information, permitting better basic leadership, enhancing efficiency, and encouraging reengineering of operational procedures. The utilization of campus wide data of student and employee records, scheduling, procurement, and other business processes leads to more efficient work, flattens hierarchies, and removes various productivity barriers. Integrated information technologies. The system incorporates different data innovation regions by giving a focal concentration to administration of assets and administrations. The system makes it simple (and now and again goal) to organize the administration of processing, library mechanization, broadcast communications, media innovation, and other arranged data assets. Such planned administration permits better utilization of assets, dispenses with turf issues, elucidates disarray about administration sources, and permits significantly more effective methodologies for taking care of foundation segments like link frameworks. External support for advancement. A system encourages gathering pledges and great associations with outer supporters (for instance, graduated class, guardians, trustees, business accomplices) by giving new choices to speaking with various and scattered gatherings through electronic mail and World Wide Web advances. Such linkages permit the school to manufacture and fortify these critical ties and furthermore give a valuable support of the school "family." Business Communication in the Software Development Company Business innovation has opened up new sorts of business interchanges. New specialized techniques incorporate email, web conferencing, long range interpersonal communication, organization sites, online talk and instant messages. Electronic correspondence permits organizations to send mass messages to a few people rapidly and at a low business cost. Electronic specialized techniques are regularly used to reach outside business partners or the overall population. Associations may make a few distinctive electronic correspondence channels to achieve diverse target markets or statistic bunches with their message. Electronic correspondence is likewise used to speak with global associations or people the time effective way. Telephone and fax organizations are perhaps the most comprehended business media interchanges, on a very basic level in light of the way that they have been around the longest. To be sure, even with new examples being used as a piece of greater numbers every year, the central phone and fax system is up 'til now sensible and related for a few associations. This holds especially legitimate for associations who work locally and don't require over the top long division organizations. Usage of the Internet has in like manner accomplished other rising and current advances, for instance, VoIP. This is a phone organization that can be used through the Internet. As opposed to making calls from a standard phone line, they can be made particularly from a PC. VoIP is overall extensively less exorbitant than general phone advantage, and every now and again fuses endless long partition advantage for no additional charge. Faxes can in like manner be sent through the Internet likewise as phone calls can be. A fax number will regardless be given, and diverse associations who are working from a standard fax machine can send reports straight to a virtual electronic fax program. Using a fax modem and the best possible programming or online organization, faxes can be sent from a PC to a fax machine as well. Business media interchanges are every now and again open in groups or bundled organizations that make using more than one organization at any given minute more direct. This is especially fundamental because, since most associations have a couple telephone lines and require different organizations, these organizations can end up being extremely costly. Bundled organizations may consolidate Internet, fax, and phone benefits for one month to month rate. Various associations offer business media interchanges organizations, so it's basic that an association do research to find what packs may be available. No one package is suited for every business. For example, if a business sometimes contacts clients who live away, phone organizations with unfathomable long partition may not be defended paying little respect to the cost. Various Factors As we have understood that both the organizations have different requirements of business communication and they have different services to offer, hence they require different network structure to make a robust architecture to support the purpose of communication. Number of Users: The University has more than 20,000 users who require network and communication within the University. The requirement of data Bandwidth is much higher, where is in the software company the data Bandwidth required is very less as compared to the University. Multiple 10 Gbps lines are available between various buildings of University. The network of wired and wireless connections in most campus buildings generally includes: 1 Gigabit per second (Gbps) Ethernet wired connections to telecommunication closets. 802.11ac WiFi connections which normally give network between 100-200 Mbps(Todd Lammle, 2013) At least one media transmission storage rooms on each floor lodging organizing switches which are associated into at least one building Distribution Layer Switch(es) (DLS) at 1 Gbps. By using the above mentioned connectivity, all the users can access their communication tools efficiently like emails, communication applications, video chat/conferencing etc. (Todd Lammle, 2013) Cost of Network structure: The cost of establishing the network in the University is very high as compared to the software company; however of using the network per user becomes less. There are different options available for different services like cloud services, in-house centralized datacenter. In the University, there is the need of different software and platforms, it is not feasible to have the servers for all the software or platforms within the campus. The institute or the company can purchase cloud based software or platform to save their cost and other resources. Building a Network, spared a considerable measure of cost for any organization in various ways. Building "uplinks" through the Computer organizing, quickly exchanges records/data and messages to the next individuals which reduced transportation and correspondence cost. It likewise raises the standard of the connectivity in light of the propelled advancements that re-utilized as a part of systems administration. Connectivity and Security Connectivity network today implies more than Ethernet links and remote get to focuses. Individuals today are more associated while portable than any other time in recent memory and large portions of them need access to organization email and information while they are out of the workplace. Adjusting those necessities while keeping up security is a test that should be tended to in the outline period of any system. This incorporates where information is put away, either in-house or offsite with cloud-based arrangements, what sorts of data ought to be open, who ought to have the capacity to get to it, and which sorts of gadgets ought to be incorporated. Firewalls and get to servers should be secure without backing off operations. In the University, the user base is very huge and requires constant efforts for maintaining firewalls and other security features to avoid spam, attacks, frauds, hacking etc.(IJRDET, 2014) Redundancy Redundancy implies having backup devices set up for any mission-basic parts in the system. Indeed, even little associations ought to consider utilizing two servers. Two mirror servers, for instance, can be designed with safeguards so one will assume control if alternate comes up short or requires maintenance. A decent dependable guideline is to have excess segments and administrations set up for any piece of a system that can't be down for 60 minutes. On the off chance that an association has it claim Web servers, or can't be without Internet availability, a moment association ought to be set up. Having an additional switch, remote switch, and an extra portable workstation on location is a decent practice for guaranteeing that downtime is kept to a base. The organizations require to have backup plans as per their needs and requires, small organizations may not require the redundancy plan, however it is very important for the service base companies where timely delivery to the customers is very important. Standardization Standardization of the equipment and programming utilized as a part of a system is vital for guaranteeing the system runs easily. It additionally diminishes costs related with support, updates and repairs. Directing a full review of the present network frameworks, programming and peripherals will figure out which needs to be standardized. A CEO or executive may require unique thought, yet in the event that 90 percent of the representatives utilize similar scratch pad, with a similar word handling and email programs, a product or equipment fix over the association can be directed considerably less lavishly than if everybody utilized an alternate PC show with various programming introduced on each. At a university level, it helps with cost also, as if the no. of a device is high then the cost can be negotiated with vendors. Also it brings uniformity in the usage and network structure. Disaster Recovery A definite Disaster Recovery plan ought to be a piece of any system outline. This incorporates, however is not restricted to, arrangements for move down power and what strategies ought to be taken after if the system or server crashes. It ought to likewise incorporate when information is went down, how it is moved down and where duplicates of the information are put away. A far reaching debacle recuperation arrange incorporates office fiascos, building calamities, and vast catastrophes. As a rule, vital information ought to be went down day by day. Numerous associations do a full week after week reinforcement, with day by day incremental reinforcements that duplicate any documents that have been altered since the last week by week reinforcement. Reinforcement records ought to be put away in a protected area off-site in case of a building catastrophe, for example, a fire. Growth While it is not generally conceivable to suspect how vast an association might be five years later on, a few recompenses for future development must be incorporated with the system plan. For instance, Microsoft Small Business Server can be an astounding decision for the software development company with 80 employees, however at the University level we require Enterprise level server. In any case, if your office as of now has sixty workers, Small Business Server could soon be a squandered venture, as it has a farthest point of just 75 clients. Arrange configuration ought to consider no less than 20 percent development for every year, including everything from change ports to information reinforcement frameworks. Numerous new difficulties identified with data get to and utilize are being brought up with regards to Internet get to, including issues identified with reasonable utilize, protected innovation rights, written falsification, data precision, and access to Internet materials now and again viewed as obscene. Grounds, and in addition the overall population, should manage these issues in an assortment of settings as society manages the effect of the Internet. Universities that seek to have a great innovation condition need to set guidelines and oversee systems from a genuine university viewpoint, in the feeling of keeping up an arrangement of mechanical choices that are really supportable with the money related and human capital accessible. At long last, as with most administration ranges, individuals are the key figure regardless of whether a school will have the capacity to build up a commendable system condition. Solid administration and support from senior officials is a key fixing. Schools additionally require commonsense visionaries to envision and afterward actualize the progressions important to fabricate an organized organization, and hence require a structure that permits such initiative to exist and thrive. CONCLUSION When planning another PC arrange, regardless of whether for 50 employees or 5000, it's essential to measure the necessities and cravings of the individuals will's identity utilizing the system with the financial plan of the individuals will's identity paying for it. Some essential things to consider that may not be on anybody's list of things to get incorporate adjusting security issues with the yearning for simple access to data; incorporating excess with the system in reckoning of breakdowns; and institutionalizing equipment and programming to hold support costs within proper limits. On the off chance that something shocking happens, a calamity recuperation plan ought to be set up. On the off chance that things go well for the association, space for future development ought to be incorporated with the system plan. 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