Case Study 1: The Alpha.com Enterprise
In this case study, the customer, Alpha.com, is a large manufacturing corporation with research facilities in North America (California) and Europe (Germany). Chip fabrication plants are located in New Mexico, Texas, and Arizona (North America), as well as in Malaysia and Taiwan (Asia). A network outage causes enormous revenue losses for this company, so it wants to build a completely fault-tolerant network. Therefore, Alpha.com wants complete Layer 2 and Layer 3 redundancy.
Network Requirements
As in any large corporation, some paranoia surrounds the performance and fault tolerance of the network. Alpha.com has some very strict requirements about design: Managers want complete Layer 2 redundancy, full ...
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