Network Capability Analysis and Related Implementations Improvements Recommendations

Sammanfattning: The networking field has become a core component for any company. All of the businesses rely on the networking industry, due its vastness and significance. Every day companies are planning and thinking to develop better strategies that can offer efficient and reliable communication solutions between their employees and customers for maximum revenue. The planning of a company’s network requires a lot of resources and aspects to study, and to evaluate them carefully to build a comprehensive secure and reliable platform. It is the job of a network administrator to take care of the company’s network infrastructure and upgrade or update the required components and applications from time-to-time that can follow new standards. This thesis is a practical work aimed to evaluate a company network infrastructure in its real environment. The purpose of this thesis is to evaluate different aspects of the network infrastructure used such as VPN, WLAN, firewall and physical security and give recommendations to make their performance better and to offer more advanced strategies. This study will also provide an inclusive observation of the company’s needs and their network infrastructure, and will provide a concept how to evaluate and fix small mistakes, the kind of problems that can occur in an evolving company network. Lastly, this research will make recommendations and suggest a possible implementation on the studied network infrastructure.