Scenario

Your company is a community bank located in the Midwestern region of the United States with a corporate office and 12 branch locations within the same metro area.  Your new CEO recently acquired a new community bank with 30 locations spread across multiple states in the Northeastern region of the United States as part of the company’s strategic business development plan.

For this assignment, you have been asked to oversee the integration and expansion of the two networks. At this time, the company knows the following:

• The new company has a WAN that connects the Northeastern region.

• Each company has an active directory domain and email server that would need to be integrated.

• Both networks are outdated and would need to be upgraded and scaled to meet the growing needs of the organization.

• The CEO would like to start offering customers secured online banking services.

• There are 150-employees today; that number will be 500 within the next 18-months.

After you have completed the reading for this week and the above assignment outline, write a paper that that outlines the network requirements from the scenario. Your paper should include the following:

• Summary of the network requirements gathered for this assignment

• Best practices, methods and research used to guide the requirements

• Key assumptions and constraints identified

• Tables, figures, and diagrams to organize your information and convey concepts to the reader