Telecommunications Network at AMSBusinesses today need more connectivity than ever. I will give you a brief look at the telecommunications department of Alenia Marconi Systems. The AMS phone system is what I would consider your average phone and paging system. The network is set up, I think, also in a standard way for small businesses. There is an email server physically separate from the intranet and web server. AMS is a non-aggressive structure when it comes to information technology. Today's businesses need more connectivity than ever. I briefly bring you an overview of the telecommunications department of Alenia Marconi Sistemi. If you look carefully you might even find an employee tasked with handling the details of day-to-day information transfer, storage and retrieval. You actually don't need to look too hard, an interior is all you really need. AMS' telecommunications department is as subtle as it gets away with. There are less than one hundred employees within the four walls of the company. Externally there are less than ten that need access to the internal system. Until recently there was no IT department. The new IT division consists of one person. Mostly, the equipment that needs to be hooked up to this system is an assortment of "antiques and hot rods," as they say. Some of the PCs currently connected to the system even use Windows 95 and Microsoft Office equivalents. The AMS phone system is what I would consider your normal phone and paging system. All phones have their own extension which can be dialed as an extension or used as the last four numbers of the phone number. Within the network it is necessary to dial only the extension without first entering the number. I find it very useful when you need to contact other people within the company. Additionally, the equipment we test has multiple types of modems. Some of the baud rates we run them at range anywhere from 8400 to 33600. I believe the network is also configured standard for small businesses. There is an email server physically separate from the intranet and web server. I expect this will prevent any stray viruses from entering the Intranet server via email. The setup would also make hacking more difficult because there is a double firewall with encrypted security.