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ICT102 Technology and Networks - Sydney International School of Technology

Assessment - Network Design

Overview

The purpose of this assignment is to assess the basic concepts of network design.

Learning Outcome 1: Recognize Network topologies, media types and network components;

Learning Outcome 2: Identify the network OSI layers at which various network devices operate;

Learning Outcome 3: Use some basic tools/utilities for network analysis

Details

Background
Better Box Corporation manufactures cardboard boxes. The organization headquarters is in Chicago. The headquarters consists of three departments: IT support, sales, and Marketing. The IT support is located on the first floor, while the marketing and the sales departments are located on second and third floors of the building respectively. IT support has 20 workstations, Marketing has 10 workstations, and sales has 50 workstations. Some applications require that data be shared between departments, but generally, each department has its own applications. Every workstation needs access to the Internet, Intranet, and e-mail system. The head office also requires wireless internet connectivity for all the floors. Suppose you are the network engineer for this organization and your IT manger asked you to design the network for head office.

The Better Box is also expanding to establish two additional offices in the future namely Seattle and Dallas. In its new network company will be installing Four new servers:

1. Web Server (Chicago): An HTTP server to store web pages for public access to corporate marketing information

2. Site server (Chicago, Seattle, Dallas): Three servers, one at each site that provide e-mail services to enable employees to communicate about important projects, store site- specific management files and sales files.

Your task to prepare a networking solution that enables employees in all offices to communicate both internally in that office and, to a lesser extent, between the other offices and head office. According to the specifications provided, the most user resource requirements will be met by servers located in the same office as the users who need to access them. The main communication requirements between offices relate to e-mail and periodic file transfers.

The assignment has two tasks

Assessment Task A: write a report with the following sections:

1. Introduction

2. LAN network design for Headquarters
Discuss the location of all workstations and interconnecting devices
Discuss and justify Media types
Discuss the LAN topology and protocols
Identify and discuss the local site server access
Sketch of network plan for each floor

3. WAN network design between all two offices with headquarters.
Discuss the devices to be used and their functioning
Discuss and Justify Media types
Discuss the type of network structure suitable in this scenario
Discuss the recommended routing protocol in this scenario
Sketch of WAN connectivity

4. Conclusion

5. References

Assessment Task B: Create a 10-minute PowerPoint presentation and present your work during the Week 11 and week12 classes.

Attachment:- Technology and Networks.rar