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Assignment
A request for proposal (RFP) to design a new Wired & Wireless Local Area Network LAN and Backbone wide area network (WAN) network design report
Group formation: In each tutorial please form a group of 3 to 4 students to work on the group assignment. The second assignment specifications are in a form of request for proposal (RFP) which is a solicitation, often made through a bidding process, by a company interested in procurement of an installation contract service to potential suppliers to submit a proposal. This group assignment provides an opportunity for you to work in a project as a group member and apply data communications and Computer networking concepts to a practical network design. You will be required to analyze a case study and make networking recommendations based on the RFP requirements. This assignment will also allow you to present your solutions in a formal reporting format. Contributions from individual members of a project group will be described in the formal report. Peer assessment component will be discussed; Forms such as Individual load factor and Group load factor will be used to access individual and group contributions. Such data will be used to individualize student marks in cases of substantially inequitable work put in by members of a given group.
1) You should supply the following information in response to the request for Proposal (RFP):
2) Project requirements brief can be derived from Objectives and Scope of Work section of the RFP. A requirement brief is usually an itemized list of the client's requirements derived from the RFP
3) Wired & Wireless LAN design for a typical floor, which includes the following information:-
a) Computer desktop layout plan with network topology for a typical floor level.
b) Switch/Wireless Access Point location on a typical floor, vertical cable paths and lengths between the floors. Switch/Access Point functional specifications. Assume the floor to ceiling height as 3 meters approximately including the false ceiling.
4) Recommendation and justification of the structured cabling selected, Access Point (AP), Switches i.e. distribution layer, building backbone cabling and media type to be used for a typical floor level and for the connection across the road to the existing LAN.
5) List of equipment and the wireless and wired specifications, technical and cabling specifications. Note: Specifications/Technical details should be included in the Appendix.
6) You need to outline design rules for a computer LAN, WLAN & WAN network and describe it in detail. Your description should include:
a) Detailed steps required in the network design process,
b) methods used to form estimates of network performance for each access point taking into account the types of antennae and wireless protocol,
c) An example of a basic sample design showing proposed floor plan, assumptions, justifications and calculations.
d) Assumptions of backbone connectivity using wired/wireless media needs to be reported.
e) Your new design should include IP addressing strategy for both the acquired new buildings
7) Write a report of maximum 3000 words, not including diagrams and pictures (you can write a good report in around 2000 words).
Description of Wired & Wireless LAN Design
The submission of the assignment will be in the form of a Technical report write-up with explanatory figures and other requirements for reporting. The specifications are as follows.
A public transport company requires that its office building be connected over a wired LAN & Wireless LAN (WLAN). You have been asked to respond to the following excerpt from their RFP (request for proposals) in the newspaper:
About Return2Fender Transport Company
At present, the total number of office employee is 700 with 200 in Sydney & Melbourne and 100 each in Adelaide, Brisbane, and Perth. Each office worker is provided with a multimedia desktop with wireless network connection. Owing to a business acquisition, the number of employees at Melbourne is expected to increase substantially.
Objectives and Scope of Work
The size of the Melbourne office both Wired & Wireless LAN would increase/expand from 200 to 1000 stations; after two new 10-storey buildings from across the road have been acquired to accommodate for the additional office space needed to seat increased employees, see Figure 1.
The new buildings have not yet been wired for the LAN or WLAN. The buildings also needs a WAN to be connected to the existing office network (from across the road).
It is envisaged that the two new building in Melbourne office would support a both wired & wireless networked office environment where each of the staff PC would be equipped with desktop high resolution video conferencing, VoIP alongside the usual business applications such as web, email, and regular office productivity packages. It is anticipated that the network traffic generated by each active-user is estimated to vary between 15-20 Mbps. The expected user activity pattern for all new buildings may be seen in Figure 2. The Wired LAN infrastructure needs to be designed, which should support the anticipated peak time data traffic, and in parallel you will design Wireless-LAN to support LAN.
The technical report should contain the following three important diagrams to support your report.
( 1 ) A typical floor-plan for any floor,
( 2 ) Each Building floor switches and Access-point (AP) locations & inter-connections to building, and for each building switch and routers backbone connection diagram with cross-section of a building &
(3 ) WAN connectivity to main head office diagram.
Details of structured horizontal floor cabling for desktop computers, Access points & Switches, vertical floor-to-floor cross connect structured vertical cabling diagram for a typical building and WAN connectivity for two new buildings and the Main head office building layout is required.
The technical report should include details of LAN, WLAN & WAN standards used for structured horizontal cabling, vertical cabling and network topology used should be described, UTP Cable and Fiber optics cable specifications, selection criteria and justifications and recommendations needs to be included.
Attachment:- Computer networks.rar