Nishida Kitchens is a medium-sized company that makes packaged Japanese foods including noodle and sauce combinations. Their

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Nishida Kitchens is a medium-sized company that makes packaged Japanese foods including noodle and sauce combinations. Their foods are distributed to grocery stores and specialty food stores throughout Canada, Europe, and the United States. The company is moving into a new building and has hired Network Design Consultants to help them create a new network. Before the move, their head network administrator accepted a job with another company and his inexperienced assistant has been promoted as the head network administrator.

Nishida Kitchens has a business and sales unit of 42 computer users. The plant in which the foods are produced, packaged, and shipped has 45 computer users. The company has both Windows Server 2008 R2 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux servers. The business and sales unit uses Windows 7 workstations. The plant users have a combination of Windows 7 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux computers on user’s desktops. The company plans to have Internet connectivity available to all network users. Nishida Kitchens has an outlet store across town, which provides the public with direct sales of its products. The outlet store also has Internet connectivity on a small network of 12 computers that are running Windows 7.

What protocol do you recommend for this network, and what are its advantages?

Nishida Kitchens wants to explore the value of converting to IPv6 over the next two years. Prepare a report or slide presentation that outlines the advantages of IPv6.

Nishida Kitchens wants the ability to monitor its network to keep the network stable and to troubleshoot problems. What should Nishida Kitchens implement to accomplish network monitoring at the main location and the outlet store? How can network monitoring be made secure?

Nishida Kitchens is considering the implementation of its own e-mail server so that employees can exchange e-mail with one another and with others over the Internet. What element is important to implement in the e-mail server so that messages can be transported over the Internet? How does this element work?

For WAN communications, such as over the Internet connection, what protocol should be used by the Windows 7 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux workstations? What are the advantages of this protocol?