Homework 1

Make a list of what services each of these firms are going to provide. Make sure to emphasize and distinguish services that are more important to competitive advantage
Archaelus Fund	Lunc Geothermal
customers/investors potential investors outsiders trying to infiltrate for info traders traders at other location administrative support staff	customers potential customers sales/service/installation designers managers/sales
You also need to think about who should have access to what services and how you can design to help prevent inappropriate access.

(Archaelus Fund) 1. This problem will have several different parts. You are going to want to make sure your inputs take care of all of the following issues while trying to separate them out for your discussion.

a. Draw a network diagram representing the London office.
b. Draw a network diagram representing the Paris office.
c. Identify what sorts of improvements you envision for the overall fund's offices in terms of switches and routers. Try to be realistic in your expenditures and give some cost estimates.
d. Identify how you would want to connect the two offices so that they can share information in real time. Describe at a fairly general level the software necessities associated with doing this. Try to be realistic in your expenditures and give some cost estimates.
e. Identify how the firm can improve their reporting to their customers. Describe at a fairly general level the hardware and software necessities associated with doing this. Try to be realistic in your expenditures and give some cost estimates.
f. Discuss, in quite general terms to be developed more in the next assignment, how you would design to incorporate a small New York City office with capabilities similar to the London and Paris offices.

(Lunc Geothermal) 2. This problem will have several different parts. You are going to want to make sure your inputs take care of all of the following issues while trying to separate them out for your discussion.

a. Draw a network diagram representing the production facility.
b. Draw a network diagram representing the main office.
c. Identify what sorts of improvements you envision for the overall firm's networks in terms of switches and routers. Try to be realistic in your expenditures and give some cost estimates.
d. Identify how you would want to connect the production facility and main office so that they can share information in real time. Describe at a fairly general level the software necessities associated with doing this. Try to be realistic in your expenditures and give some cost estimates.
e. Identify how you would incorporate the service force's necessities into the existing or new infrastructure to improve functionality. Try to keep your improvements quite essential and not very burdensome on overall costs.