Case Study: Kudler Fine Foods Wireless Network

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Kudler Fine Foods’ wide area network (WAN) consists three local area connections (LANs); the company’s headquarters La Jolla, and two branches Encinitas and Del Mar. The networks are currently wired both locally and externally. The local area networks are wired with 100Base T Ethernet cable. The three locations are connected using a dedicated T3 line. Kudler Fine Foods requests that the local networks be changed from wired to wireless. The difference between the WAN and the LAN is basically area coverage and wired versus wireless is basically connectivity. A LAN can be wired or wireless (WLAN) as is the case of the proposed network for Kudler Fine Foods. Kudler Fine Foods is a little different in that all three networks are in the same city…show more content…
In addition to Wi-Fi protected access security protocol and certification on the wireless devices, it is imperative that the company has a protective system also known as a firewall between the company’s network and the internet. The firewall, either hardware or software or both, prevents unauthorized access to the network. Hardware firewalls are built into the routers such as Cisco routers and can be effective with little or no configuration. A hardware firewall uses a series of filters to examine the packet, sessions and applications. The packet filters examine packets to verify source and destination; the circuit level filters ensure valid interactions and application filters inspect, screen, block or redirect if necessary, and modify the data as it is transferred across the network. The hardware firewall coupled with the software firewall would protect the network. There are countless firewall software to choose from. The company can install a server managed antivirus on all the systems. The server can manage the restrictions of the firewall. An example of server managed network protection software is the Symantec Endpoint Protection. This software is installed on a server and the client machines. However all settings for protection on the network is managed on the

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