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The current architecture of the Riordan Manufacturing Company Inc. Wide Area Network and network security in place requires updated documentation. The purpose of this paper is to gather the existing information into a single format and evaluate the WAN and security documentation for an executive overview.

Riordan Manufacturing, Inc. is an industry leader in the field of plastic injection molding. With state-of-the art design capabilities, they create innovative plastic designs that have earned international acclaim. Attention to detail, extreme precision and enthusiastic quality control are the hallmarks of Riordan Manufacturing. With facilities in San Jose, California, Albany, Georgia, Pontiac, Michigan and Hangzhou, China, the company is heavily dependent upon their communication networks. The documentation produced by this analysis will give the management at Riordan Manufacturing an understanding of their networks today, a plan for future upgrades and a baseline to evaluate security.

The goal of this exercise is three fold. Our first will be to provide an inventory of the existing network components for Riordan Manufacturing designated by location, review the network security for each site, and our last goal is to document the current security plan for use in future planning.

Because of the limited scope of the project, several assumptions must be made. The first assumption is that Riordan Manufacturing has accurate records of the current infrastructure and no changes will be made during this study. Furthermore, we must assume the equipment at each location is similarly configured.

The deliverables for this project will consist of an inventory by location of the network in a Visio format, description of the security by location of the network, and recommendations for changes to the network design, circuit speeds, and reasons why the changes should be implemented.

Not included in the scope of this study are equipment recommendations, cost specifics and timeframes for delivery of new network services.

Inventory.

We start off our inventory with the Riordan Manufacturing Headquarters with the computers. We counted a quantity of 35 Dell Optiplex computers. The computers have 2.6 GHz processors, 512 Megabytes of Random Access Memory, and 60 Gigabytes of hard drive storage. These computers are loaded with the Microsoft Windows 2000 operating system and the Microsoft Office 2000 office application. The next item that we inventoried was the Apple Macintosh computers. There were 15 of these computers at the headquarters facility. They have dual 2.8 GHZ processors, 1 Gigabytes of Random Access Memory, and 1 Gigabyte hard drives. The servers consist of 2 IBM H520 Blade Servers for network purposes. These servers have dual Xeon 2.8 GHz processors and 1 Gigabytes of Random Access Memory. We also took note of a third IBM H520 Blade Server used for the purpose of exchange. This server also has dual Xeon 2.8 GHz processors and 1 Gigabytes of Random Access Memory. All three of these servers run a server version of the Microsoft Windows operating system. There is also an IBM pSeries server that has a 6E4 Multiprocessor, 1 Gigabytes of Random Access Memory, a 80 Gigabyte hard drive and is used for ERP/MRP. This server runs the UNIX operating system.

We found the additional network hardware at the headquarters facility. There are 2 Voice over Internet Protocol routers, 2 Cisco 5950 24 port switches, 1 Linksys EF2H24 24 port hub, and 2 gateway switches. We also located 3 Phaser color printers and 1 Hewlett Packard Plotter. There is a satellite base station to provide a communication link to the China facility. We noted 35 Internet Protocol telephones. We also found 1 Universal Power Supply. And finally our last item was the hardware for the T1 communications line.

Next we moved to the Albany plant to continue our inventory with the computers that were located there. We found 8 Compaq Presario computers at the Albany plant. These computers had 233 MHz processors, and 64 Megabytes of Random Access Memory. We also found 7 additional Compaq Presario computers that had 450 MHz processors. These computers had 128 Megabytes of Random Access Memory. The next item was a third set of 5 Compaq Presario computers with 600 MHz processors. These computers had 256 Megabytes of Random Access Memory. The servers were our next item to inventory. We located two Compaq Proliant servers. These had Pentium III 800 MHz processors, and 512 Megabytes of Random Access Memory. Both servers run the Microsoft Windows NT operating system. One server is used for file and printer services and the other is used for exchange. We also noted two Hewlett Packard servers running their version of UNIX referred to as HP-UX. One server is used for ERP and the other is used for MRP II.

Additional hardware at the Albany plant includes one Kentrox Datasmart 658 DSU/CSU, one Cisco router, three Nortel Baystack 450-24T Ethernet switches, and one 48 port patch switch. There were also two Hewlett Packard Laserjet V printers, one Universal Power Supply, and hardware for one Fractional T1 Line.

We will now move on to the Pontiac plant to discuss the inventory conducted at that location. We again start off our inventory with the computer equipment located at this plant. The Pontiac facility has 15 Compaq Desktop computers. These have 486 processors running at 66 MHz and include 32 Megabytes of Random Access Memory. The next item we inventoried was 15 Compaq Presario computers that had 233 MHz processors. These computers came equipped with 64 Megabytes of Random Access Memory. Our last set of computers at the Pontiac location were 15 more Compaq Presario computers. These computers had 350 MHz Pentium II processors and 128 Megabytes of Random Access Memory. The servers at this facility consisted of two Compaq Proliant servers. These servers contain Pentium III 450 MHz processors and 256 Megabytes of Random Access Memory. One server is used for file and print purposes, and the other server is used for exchange purposes. The operating system on these servers is Microsoft Windows NT. We also took note of a Hewlett Packard UNIX server and an IBM RS600 UNIX server. The Hewlett Packard uses the HP-UX operating system and the IBM uses the IBM-AIX operating system.

We inventoried additional hardware at the Pontiac plant which included one Blackbox V35 MT10DA-35R2 DSU/CSU, one Cisco 2500 router, four Nortel Baystack 170-10BT hubs, and one 24 port patch switch. We also noted one Hewlett Packard Laserjet V printer, and two Hewlett Packard Laserjet IV printers with jetdirect. Additional miscellaneous equipment included one Universal Power Supply and one Fractional T1 line set of hardware.

Our final destination for the inventory took us to China where the computer hardware closely matched

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