write 400–600 words that respond to the following questions with your thoughts, ideas, and comments. This will be the foundation for future discussions by your classmates. Be substantive and clear, and use examples to reinforce your ideas.
Story
TheSolarGroup (TSG) is a small company that retains and cultivates high technical skills in a niche technology, namely solar solutions for energy generation. TSG’s executive team has proven their leadership with solar technology engineering skills, and now they must manage information technology (IT) infrastructures to support their own internal networking requirements. With the experience of the enterprise architect consultant, The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF) has been chosen as the network enterprise framework for defining the network architecture. Customizing TOGAF to the network business requirements for TheSolarGroup is not a small undertaking. As part of the enterprise architecture (EA) framework standardization, view models are useful documentation tools for describing multiple network environments. Views are a collection of viewpoints. Each viewpoint represents a community of users with shared network interests. Network viewpoints are created with at least the following:
• Stakeholders
• Concerns
• Representation or modeling techniques
TheSolarGroup executives can plan business networking requirements, but they use different network views. With the guidance of the enterprise architect, libraries of views will evolve for the enterprise, with viewpoint instances appearing in more than one view.
Lessons Learned (Moral)
A framework like TOGAF represents a common starting point with technology that is globally understood, but customization is often necessary. The framework offers standard tools, but an architecture must apply the appropriate tools to the network domain definition. The TOGAF views, through viewpoints, define methodologies that are used to identify TSG network requirement needs. These viewpoints must be consistent for EA integrity. Even management roles utilize multiple views.
Assignment Details
Conduct a literature review to canvas EA framework layers. Based on the TSG scenario you just read and your research of EA framework layers, discuss the following:
• Summarize the content of the following four layers found with most frameworks:
o Business
o Information
o Application
o Infrastructure
• Include the tools that are used at each architecture layer with networking at TSG.
• Identify and discuss a networking viewpoint from each layer. Include the following in each viewpoint:
o Stakeholders
o Concerns
o Modeling techniques
Responses to Other Students: Respond to at least 2 of your fellow classmates with at least a 200-word reply about their Primary Task Response regarding items you found to be
compelling and enlightening. To help you with your discussion, please consider the following questions:
• What did you learn from your classmate’s posting? What additional questions do you have after reading the posting?
• What clarification do you need regarding the posting?
• What differences or similarities do you see between your posting and other classmates’ postings?
