Case Study 2: The MKS Retail Store
Our fictional store, MKS, is a large retail corporation based in San Jose, California. MKS operates stores in all major cities in the United States, and operates catalog stores in smaller cities. The company wants to build a fault-tolerant network with redundancy in some sites.
MKS plans approximately 12,000 remote nodes on this network. Some of the sites will be situated in very low-speed circuits across Frame Relay. A few of the crucial sites will have dual PVC to the hub sites, in addition to a dial backup. This network is currently in production and is running OSPF as the core routing protocol, with nearly 300 operational sites. All 12,000 sites have not been implemented yet, but MKS is concerned about ...
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