A Private High School in Ohio - Essay Example

 A Private High School in Ohio Nordonia High School Executive Summary "Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one." -- Malcolm Forbes – Education plays important roles in everyone’s life and Nordonia High School, a private high school in Ohio is committed to give its student best possible and qualitative education so that they can keep pace with the fast changing world. It is every student right to deserves equal opportunities for success in his/her academic and personal growth and that is well taken care by Nordonia High School by providing new trends, technologies and information to its students. In this paper, Business Case Analysis for the Nordonia High School is presented for modernization of its current Information system infrastructure. This can be done by modernizing its current Lab and LAN by replacing old infrastructure to a new one. As an Information System Analyst for Nordonia High School, it is my pleasure to invite you to review this Business Case Analysis of the proposed new Information system of the Nordonia High School. I look forward to hearing your response to my Business Case Analysis. Sincerely, James Information System Analyst Nordonia High School Background Information Nordonia High School is an independent English language, American-model secondary school that offers American high school curriculum in mathematics, social and natural sciences, English and Macedonian language and literature, foreign languages, fine and performing arts, and physical education. Nordonia’s campus includes over twenty classrooms and laboratories, a technology center, art, drama and music studios, an auditorium, a library, a full-service cafeteria, a bookstore and a fitness center. At presently Nordonia High School have one computer lab and library in which 20 computers are kept for students. Besides these, there is one computer for professor and one printer for general purpose use in computer lab is kept and three computers and one printer are there in library for library staffs and librarian. All the classes have a computer for teaching purpose for professors and are connected to LAN. In all the classes there is also certain plug-ins so that any students can connect their laptops to LAN for using the school resources. There are also four administrative offices in Nordonia High School that contains four computers and a printer. Nordonia High School also has two old IBM servers for providing DHCP, saving files, security, internet access, and Backup purpose. Technological Enhancements The present network (LAN system) of the Nordonia High School is installed more than 6 years ago, and now the management wants it to modernize, therefore, hardware as well as software technological enhancement will be done for Nordonia High School. Also one computer lab is not sufficient for school; therefore one additional computer lab is also needed for Nordonia High School. Below are the details for the hardware and software that are needed to modernize the school LAN system: Hardware Enhancement This is the main area which is needed to be changed. The hardware’s needed are: 21 new workstations for existing computer lab and additional 21 workstations for the proposed new computer lab. Gigabit-Ethernet 1000baseT (Cat 6 cable) as connection between hub/switch for more network throughput and enhanced speed. WDSL package - Alvarion BreezeACCESS VL 4.0 broadband platform. 3 servers for DHCP, security, internet access, files and backup. 2 x 48 port managed switch for the classrooms and 4 x 24 port managed switches for the labs, offices and library. Software Enhancement Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Microsoft Office Ultimate 2007 Firewall and Anti Virus Software- Kaspersky Suite Monitoring Tools- Spector CNE Investigator Costs Hardware Component Quantity Unit Prize Prize Workstations (Dell Precision Workstation 450 XEON 2.66GHZ 1GB 250GB) 42 $720 $30,240 Dell Servers (PowerEdgeTM  2950) 3 $6,818.00 $20,454 CAT 6 cable 1000 feet 2 $200 $400 Alvarion BreezeACCESS VL 4.0 1 $4,178 $4,178 SMC8748M INT 48-Port Managed Switch 2 $2,440 $4,880 DGS-3224TGR 24-Port Managed Switch 2 $928 $3,712 Network Installation   $3,000    Total $66,864 Software Component Prize Spector CNE Investigator (100 licences) $5600 Kaspersky® Business Space Security + Security for Internet Gateway + Anti-Spam 3.0 (for 3 years)  $8312 Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 Standard Edition $999 Microsoft SQL Server 2005 (Workgroup Edition) $739 Microsoft Office Ultimate 2007 $680 Software Installation $500    Total $16,830 Training Costs NETWORK+ certification for Two Administrator $1,000    Total $1,000 Monthly Costs WDSL $300 System Administrator (2) $4,000    Total $4,300 Total Investment 1. Hardware Total $66,864 2. Software Total $16,830 3. Training Cost $1,000 4. Annual Cost for the System Support/Administration $51,600 Proposed LAN for Nordonia High School A proposed LAN layout of the Nordonia High School is given below in figure 1. Each segment of the LAN is connected with a 1000baseT (Cat 6 cable) Ethernet using STAR Topology on Hub. It is assumed here that the Internet is provided by the WDSL package (Alvarion BreezeACCESS VL 4.0 broadband platform) through firewall to the Hub of the Nordonia High School LAN. Rest of the layout for Lab, Server, administrative offices and classrooms are shown in network diagrams. For simplicity reasons all the connection to the computers and printers are not shown. Figure 1: Proposed LAN for Nordonia High School The proposed new network modernization can be done on weekdays subject to availability of all the necessary hardware’s and software’s. During the time of installation the LAB will be closed on the weekdays. 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