Kudler Fine Food Characteristics Kudler Fine Foods is a local upscale specialty food store with a reputation of providing the best customer service. Kudler Fine Food currently operates out of Del Mar and Encinitas with the home office located at La Jolla, CA. Kudler Fine Foods is in need of a network overhaul, they want to design a WAN to integrate three different locations together and make the internal network in each store a Wireless Local Area Network. The improved network will have a significant effect on Kudler’s ability to connect systems to their distribution suppliers; increasing their business agility and ability to react to the ever changing market demands created by unpredictable aspects like the weather. The current network configuration for Kudler Fine Foods allows each store to …show more content…
The networks at all three of the organizations locations are similar in terms of components and configuration. The La Jolla store network, services approximately nineteen personnel with the Del Mar and Encinitas locations networks servicing six personnel each. Consists of one HP Blade Server System C3000 running a Unix Operating System (OS) that supports the organizations web, email, print/file services, SAP Retail Software and storage control. (Apollo Group, Inc., 2013). The network T3 network also supports nine Point of Sale (POS) terminals with a POS server at each location, 31 Dell Vostro Computers running Windows 7 OS, 31 Voice Over Internet Protocol (VOIP) phones, eight HP printers, three 10 TB Network Attached Storage (NAS) devices with one at each location, three Cisco routers, and three Cisco firewalls with one firewall and router at each location (Apollo Group, Inc., 2013). All network components at each location are connected by a 100 Base T Ethernet which supports the inter-store network and a 25 MBs link to the Internet (Apollo Group, Inc.,