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Purpose

Part 1: WAN designs vary depending how an organization wants to connect to their ISP. In urban areas as well as medium to large cities need metro ethernet, MPLS and internet VPNS to connect parts of the organization across large cities or large states. Organizations LANs can use MPLS, VPNs and metro ethernet to connect to primary WAN ISPs that you have seen commercials and emails about.

Part 2: Software defined networking has been around for a few years now and many telecommunications companies are using them more and more. SDN is useful since it applies automation of networking capabilities across many networks (from a WAN provider down to its customers). Software defined access (SDA) can help facilitate access to wired or wireless networks through automation. This is the future of networking on large scale networks.

Write a minimum 2-page, double-spaced paper on server virtualization technologies that support cloud computing. Research and provide an example of a company using virtualization for their cloud computing solution. Include at least 3 references and include those references in your paragraphs through in-text citations.

Section 2: Plan

You have been hired as an experienced network engineer to design a network that will integrate SNMP, Netflow, and syslog to monitor network health. The wired network consists of five departments in a two-story building using IPv4 currently. Research and create a list of requirements for deploying SNMP, Netflow, and syslog into the network with minimal impact to users and customers. Including all three services into the network may require new IP addresses to be allocated. Make sure new IP addresses are listed in the requirements.

Write a minimum 3-page paper and draw a network diagram that will be inserted into your plan to present to your manager, who has a technical background, that details your plan and your timeline for implementation.

Make sure that:

1. Your plan includes equipment and configuration information.
2. Your plan is comprehensive and has one or more network diagrams that portray your plan.
3. Your plan includes your proposed network changes and a 2-sentence outage message that will be sent by a broadcast email to the affected users.
4. Your plan includes other concerns about this change and other departments that should potentially be contacted before the change.
5. Your plan contains an APA title page, running header, table of contents, abstract, and references page.

Section 2 Requirements

In addition to the above criteria, please ensure the following:

1. The plans viewpoint and purpose should be clearly established and sustained.
2. The plan should follow the conventions of Standard English (correct grammar, punctuation, and spelling).
3. The plans writing should be well ordered, logical and unified, as well as original and insightful.
4. Current APA formatting and citation style should be followed.