In this series of blog posts, we will follow Pea Hill Creek Coffee Company on it’s journey from small time coffee to a multi-location enterprise. Each post will focus on one step of the journey, detailing the next challenge to overcome and the steps we took to meet that challenge. Let’s jump in and get the background on PHCCC!
Pea Hill Creek Coffee Company was started as a hobby by it’s founder, John Fulcrum. As his coffee became more and more popular his basement hobby expanded into a small business. He purchased a small building where he could roast his beans, store his product and manage shipments in the back. In the front of the building he has a small storefront where he can sell his coffee. During this time his small office / home office network design worked well. He had a consumer grade router that connected his desktop computer and Point of Sale computer to the network. He also provided a guest network for his customers to use while they were in his shop. This worked well until he decided to expand.
John has contracted with Carolina Cloud Works to help him with his IT needs. John wants to hire an employee to handle all his shipping needs as well as an Barista to help his customers. He wants to keep the shipping information, the sales information as well as his business information separate from each other. Also, as he expands the network, he wants to be prepared for a Voice over IP System in the future.
Carolina Cloud Works has recommended he replace his consumer grade network gear with equipment more suited for his growing business. This upgrade in network gear will allow PHCCC to implement VLANs to achieve his goals of network segmentation.
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Pea Hill Creek Coffee Company is a fictional company. This series of posts will be used to demonstrate a number of IT projects and tasks through a fun, real world scenario.
