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Advanced Network Design Assignment - Network requirement analysis and plan

Purpose of the assessment (with ULO Mapping) - This assignment is designed to assess students' knowledge and skills related to the following learning outcomes:

• Investigate suitable network designs to match requirements;
• Create appropriate frameworks and standards for network implementation;

Assignment Description -

Case study scenario: Use an industry case study of your PBL exercise.

Project Scope: Write project scope herewith.

Report requirements: The report should have a detail explanation of the planning and designing of a network. It is recommended that bullet points are included whenever necessary. Use your Problem Based Learning (PBL) tutorial findings.

1. Project Scope and requirements

• Attach evidence of an industry visit as an appendix A: Industry visit evidence.
• Include points that you have gathered from an industry professional on their existing network.

2. Network design and justification

• Draw a network design that you think will be useful in future for the industry that you have visited. Netwrok should include the following requirements as a miminum: 4 routers, 6 switches, 20 PCs and 3 VLAN.
• Suitable IP addressing scheme in tabular form (assume as many hosts as necessary for each department).
• Indicate where do you use static routing, dynamic routing protocols (name the protocols, RIP, EIGRP, OSPF etc.), Access Control List (ACL) as per the network preferences. Justify your choices.

3. Network configuration

Configure your network using Packet Tracer. Write report on

• Packet Tracer Network diagram - Copy diagram from your simulator
• Switch configuration
• Router configuration
• Host configuration
• Access point and server configuration guidelines.

4. Timeline and Budget estimation

This section should include the followings:

• Hardware requirements with the specification with costs
• Human resources and logistics
• Tentative timeline specifications.

5. Demonstration

• Individual demonstration of packet tracer in Week 7.
• Mandotory to demonstrate work-in-progress demonstration in week 5 and 6.

Sections to be included in the report -

1. Project Scope and requirements - Outline of the report (in 3-4 sentences), and briefly discuss the requirements (not more than 10-12 sentences).

2. Network design and justification -

• Well-designed network diagram.
• Labelled with IP addresses.
• A clear description of the approach taken for the design (may use bullet points for this).

3. Network topology diagram and implementation - Well-designed topology diagram with simulating software.

Network devices and appropriate command for the configuration should be detailed for implementation purposes.

It would be best to have

• Comments for the commands used for configuration. For example, the following commands are for the dynamic routing protocol used for the configuration, the following commands for VLANs, creating trunk links, static routes, etc.
• Connectivity testing ping snapshots.

4. Timeline and Budget estimation - Hardware requirements with the specification with costs

• Name of the network device with manufacturer's name, series, model and ports - Type of the cables - Name of the server, PC with specification such as operating system, RAM, hard disk, etc.
• Cost specification of the hardware should be included.

Human resources cost need to be included on an hourly basis.

Timeline for the completion of the should be detailed.

5. Summary - Well comprehended summary.

6. Reference style - IEEE reference style.