Scenario: The Newton Ad Agency is an advertising firm with offices in Austin, Texas’ Minneapolis, Minnesota: and New York City, New York. The offices in Austin include a headquarters
and a satellite office located two miles away in a rural area.
The Austin headquarters is home to the executive team and 750 employees. The headquarters also stores the corporate data and is the corporate internet backbone. It hosts the IT department that
centrally manages all LAN services, including the wireless LAN. The IT department also manages the wide area network (WAN) that connects all of the offices via site-to-site virtual private network
(VPN) tunnels.
The Minneapolis and New York offices host about 200 employees each. Approximately 50% of these employees are mobile (i.e., travelling more than 80% of the time). The New York office focuses on
producing and disseminating large advertising media content to clients. For this reason, the New York office hosts the corporate media and web servers. The rural satellite office in Austin focuses
on billboard ad designs and is connected to the corporate WAN with a wireless point-to-point bridge to the Austin headquarters data center. The rural office is home to 100 employees.
To hire and retain the best talents, Newton Ad Agency allows employees to work from home. This removes the constraint that employees have to live within commuting distance from the firm’s offices.
Remote and mobile employees are provided access to the corporate network via a VPN client. The VPN client requires employees to have access to reliable internet services to allow for effective
collaboration across teams, and for access to media content. The company provides all employees with a laptop with full disk encryption, data loss prevention (DLP), and antivirus software. The IT
department manages all corporate laptops and has the ability to log into all systems for support. This means that all laptops are centrally managed by the one IT department.
Due to an increase in opportunities for expansion to new markets, Newton has embarked on an initiative to hire and train new college graduates to support the company’s Vision 2020 program. Vision
2020 focuses on global expansion. The initiative is to hire graduates into the marketing, finance, and IT departments.
You were hired as part of the Vision 2020 program and have been working at Newton for some time now. You have spent a considerable portion of your time troubleshooting and analyzing the
organization’s computer network to keep it running smoothly. Your direct supervisor and lead network administrator have been very impressed with your skills and fast learning abilities. In order to
determine if you are ready to take on more responsibility, you have been asked for your input in regard to the new office location setup project.

Newton is considering adding a new office and is exploring potential locations in Tacoma, Washington: Rochester, New York: or Fayetteville, North Carolina. Your task is to choose one of the
possible locations and deliver a report to the team with key considerations and recommendations for the setup of the network infrastructure at the new office. This office will be home to 50
employees, including the new executive vice president of sales and marketing. All the possible sites have offices located on the third floor of an office building with access to fiber, cable, and
T1 internet service providers. In addition to the standard network, the site must support live video teleconferencing calls with employees based at the other sites, as well as reliably send print
jobs to billboard printers located in the satellite office in Austin.
In Milestone One, you selected an office location. Now, in Milestone Two, you will need to research internet service providers at that location. This will involve internet research. Be sure to cite
your research in APA style.
Prompt: Here is the prompt for the final project: How would you approach setting up the network at the location you have selected? What considerations are key in informing the systems and resources
necessary to meet the organization’s needs and support the business goals and objectives?
Keep in mind, however, that your work in Milestone Two involves only Sections III and IV of the final project. Therefore, for Milestone Two, the modified prompt is as follows: Explain key
considerations for identifying an internet service provider for the new location and recommend the appropriate provider to match the business case. Then, address considerations and make
recommendations regarding hardware and software selection, printer configurations, and bandwidth that address business needs.
Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed:
I. Internet Service Provider (Note: This section is based on research into actual providers at the office location that you select) A. Explain key considerations for identifying an internet service
provider for the new location. B. Compare at least two internet providers available in the location you have chosen about speed, security, and reliability. Be sure to address how these specifics
would impact business goals and objectives. C. Based on your analysis, determine the appropriate internet provider for this location to meet the business goals and objectives. Be sure to explain
your reasoning. II. Additional Configurations: In this section, you will address the accompanying considerations for the network based on the needs of the new office location. A. Make appropriate
hardware and software recommendations to meet the needs of the new office location. Be sure to explain your reasoning. B. Make appropriate printer configuration recommendations to meet the distance
printing needs of the new office location. Be sure to explain your reasoning. C. Make appropriate bandwidth and device recommendations to meet the teleconferencing needs of the new office location.