Identify all the circuits and network hardware

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Background:

A private high school is located in 3 adjacent two-story buildings. Each building is approximately 50 metres long and 15 metres wide. They are set about 40 metres apart. The school needs your expertise to upgrade their existing network. Their current network is old and will need to be replaced. The principal has asked for a "high school of the future, using the latest technologies with a network which can accommodate the load now and for another five years".

The present high school has 500 students with only two computer labs each with 20 computers and 1 laser printer. There are a further 20 computers in the Library as well as another laser printer. The computer labs and Library computers have recently been upgraded to meet sufficiently the needs of the students. Staff room has 10 old desktop computers. The network was installed five years ago in 2011. Network operating system is Windows Server 2008. The network is simple hub/switch. The computers labs are not able to connect to other computer labs. Students cannot log in using their laptops. There is no wireless.

The new high school will have all teachers issued with Laptops/iPads and all the desktop computers have been removed from the Staff Room. There will be three computer labs each with 30 computers.

One building will have computer lab for multimedia students, the second building will have Programmers and the other building the Business students. The teachers and students each form communities of users with different needs and loads on the network.This understanding of communities of users is a key part of your assignment.

This school also needs to connect with a WAN of other modern schools. These other private high schools are located approximately 200km from this private high school. They need to be linked to the existing high school network formed by these other schools. This is a case for understanding distance remote situations for WAN.

Important objectives of the Network:

The two main objectives for the proposed solution are:
- A modern network for the school and
- To ensure that these schools have videoconferencing between them

The network is proposed to achieve the above objectives considering the school's following business and technical goals.

Business goals:
- Improved communications, wireless, videoconferencing, etc.
- Spare no expense,
- Protect school information,
- The classroom of the future will double enrolments,

- Be excellent in technology.

Technical goals:
- The current network, computer labs, and library are upgraded to a modern network (campus design) to meet student and teacher needs,
- Scalability - remember they plan to double in size,
- Availability - Wireless network access is available in all classrooms as well as some outdoor areas for teachers and students,
- Students have access to study resources from school and home (different servers),
- Performance - network performance must be high,
- Reliability - no single point of failure,
- Security - protection of school information and other IT assets,
- Multimedia classrooms for the excellence classes.

Part 1

For part 1 report, you are required to:

- Analyse user network requirements
- Describe and analyse the current network

You will need to make a number of assumptions regarding the existing organisational structure including management hierarchy, software, hardware, circuit, user communities and network use patterns, etc. which will need to be documented in the appropriate sections of your report.

Students form communities of users based on their subjects. Some do multimedia design while others do less computer intensive subjects. Each future lab needs a suite of software which matches the interests of these communities of students. One computer lab is multimedia, one computer lab is programming and the third computer lab is business studies.

Hint Work out the needs for each of these communities of users.

You will need to identify all the circuits (cabling) and network hardware of the existing network(s) and explain their function, performance, capacity, etc.

You will need to include both logical and physical network diagrams for the current network. You will also need to provide a layout of your high school showing where your network devices are located. Presentation is important. No marks are allocated to referencing, however, you are strongly encouraged to do so if relevant.

Attachment:- Report Template.rar

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9/1/2016 3:25:38 AM

Comprehensive description of existing network logical topology including diagram(s). Comprehensive diagram(s)showing buildings and floors, location of all servers, interconnecting devices, firewall, circuits, wireless access points if any, printers, and some indication of where workstations reside. Appropriate icons and legends are included. Comprehensive analysis of the current network performance considering: the circuit performance the major network hardware devices performance the network topology performance. Report format is consistent throughout including heading styles, fonts, margins, white space, etc.

9/1/2016 3:21:08 AM

- Identifies and lists all of the expected current hardware including interworking devices; their location, client PCs, servers, printer, etc and Succinctly describes each of these items major characteristics.

9/1/2016 3:20:31 AM

I have the assignment and i don't want to be any trouble regarding solution. Please remember, assignment is part 1 only which is due next Monday. Demonstrates full understanding of network needs through a comprehensive analysis of all of the following elements: - Various communities of users and their priority levels - Bandwidth requirements - Security requirements - Remote access requirement - Mobility requirements.

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