MIS382-Chapter 7 Build Your Intranet
Determine and Develop Infrastructure Needs
- Must have TCP/IP as the protocol on the network
- Do you need additional bandwidth?
How Will You Server Remote Locations and Remote Users
- Dedicated leased line
- Frame Relay (56Kbps - T1 (1.544 Mbps))
- Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) (upto 45 Mbps)
- Non-dedicated dial-up or switched access
- Dial-up analog modem (upto 56Kbps)
- Integrated Services Digital Network (64-128 Kbps)
- Emerging Technologies
- Asymmetric digital subscriber line (ADSL) [requires special modems]
- Cable modem
- Direct broadcast satellite
Virtual Private Networks (VPN)
Emerging Technologies - PPTP (Point-to-point Tunneling Protocol)
Determine Security Needs and Implement Security
- Firewalls
- Encryption
- Encrypting firewalls
- Message encryption
Evaluate and Select an Internet Service Provider (ISP)
Criteria for Selection
- Business Orientation
- Quality of Service
- Reliability (UPS?)
- Availability ( p-grade [# of calls per 100 that receive busy signal])
- Performance (speed of backbone)
- Points of Presence (location)
- Service Product Range
- Value-added capabilities
- Security options
- Domain names
- Support
- Experience
- Cost
Select and Install Hardware and Software
- Servers
- Domain Name Server (DNS)
- Web HTTP Server
- Secure HTTP (SHTTP)
- Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)
- Private Communications Technology (PCT - Microsoft's enhanced version of SSL)
- Secure Transport Layer Protocol (STLP - combines SSL & PCT)
- Secure Electronic Transaction (SET)
- Proxy Server
- Simple Mail Transfer Protocol Server (SMTP)
- Gopher Server
- FTP Server
- Transaction Server (for access to databases)
- Browsers
- Search Tools
- Document Authoring Tools
- Document Conversion Tools
- Document Databases
- Database Query Tools
Plan for Maintenance of Your Intranet