Case Study: Kudler Fine Foods Network

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INDP Final: Kudler Fine Foods Kudler Fine Foods is a gourmet grocery store based out of Southern California with a store in La Jolla, Encinitas, and Del Mar, and the home office is located in La Jolla with local area network and wide area network that is restrictive and does not provide enough room for future expansion, as well as a more reliable communications with its other stores and the outside world. The Del Mar store and the Encinitas store have identical networks. The La Jolla home store is structured differently. The Kudler Fine Foods network. As viewed from the footprint of the La Jolla store, the internal network is built around a 100baseT Ethernet, which connects all the systems inside this Kudler facility. Kudler’s main server…show more content…
The fourth layer of the TCP/IP protocol defines how application interact with the third layer and include the highest levels of protocol like hyper text transfer protocol (HTTP), Telnet, domain naming system (DNS), simple mail transfer protocol (SMTP), and file transfer protocol (FTP) ("Four Layers Of TCP/IP Model, Comparison And Difference Between TCP/IP And OSI Models", 2014). Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP). The VoIP allows Kudler Fine Foods to make phone calls over the broadband connection instead of standard dial-up connection. An advantage of the VoIP is that this allows Kudler Fine Foods to have additional phone numbers and service without having to pay for the phone service, however there are a few disadvantages to the VoIP phones. VoIP providers may not have directory assistance and may cost extra and some providers may not provide service during power outages ("Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP)", n. d.). Routing protocol. Kudler Fine Foods uses two Cisco routers and firewall, there are many routing protocols employed by the Cisco devices. The most standard of protocols in use is border gateway protocol (BGP). BGP routes traffic between sovereign network systems. BGP is the most robust of all protocols due to its scalability. BGP has many adjustable parameters that allow the router to maintain a stable routing terrain. BGP routers will only communicate with other networks when a secured connection is achieved ("Routing Protocols", n.
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