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Huffman Trucking Network Systems

NTC/360

University of Phoenix

Zamir Deen

October 14, 2006

Huffman Trucking has an excellent reputation for providing outstanding services and products throughout their infrastructure. Huffman understands with the constant need for changes within their telephone and data networks that improvements are needed to help support the company's growing business needs. Huffman management team has solicited the consulting needs of Team A. Team A will have the responsibility of evaluating Huffman's current telephone and data network systems. As a result of findings, Team A will provide recommendations to Huffman that will help them implement a new telephone and network data system.
In Team A initial phase of evaluating Huffman's existing telephone and data network system. Currently the Huffman telephone network consists of several different types of telephone systems in each city or division. Huffman Trucking is utilizing a PBX in the California office in order to connect all of their business's telephone sets separately to the public telephone network (PSTN or ISDN). The PBX traffic interfaces with a Nortel VoIP Digital Phone System, which is also being used by the California Plant end users for their telephone system. The benefit to this setup is their ability to call the other divisions or out of area for virtually free. The downside is that the office folks do not have voicemail or call id features available to them.
Later in the paper, specifically in the network topology and switching portion we will discuss our desire to upgrade the wiring plant in the different divisions from CAT 3 to CAT 5e or CAT 6 wiring. This would allow us to install and implement a VoIP telephone system similar to the California Plant system for the Plants in Missouri, New Jersey, and Ohio. This would also benefit the division by granting voicemail and caller ID features currently not available to the end users. Once the VoIP switch...