Assignment: Internetworking Technologies
Purpose
Main objective of this assignment is to enable student to understand networking devices, gather requirements for a given business case study and plan a network design.
After successful completion of this assignment, students should be able to:
a) Explain human factors in achieving business and technical goals through planning and design.
b) Develop architectural internetworking design for the business and application domains.
Length: 1000 words.
Description
Business case study: Network design proposal for an education provider
Description
The project aims to design a network for an education provider. The campus of the education provider consists of three buildings and each building has five floors. The buildings are located within 500 meters away from one another and have the same homogeneous structure where each floor has 10 small rooms for teachers, 5 class rooms, and 5 computer labs where network points need to be installed to connect PCs. Each small room should have 2 network points, each class should have 2 network points, and each computer lab should have 25 network points. There is a server room consisting of 3 servers located in one of these buildings which will be the centre of communication for this network. The server room should have 20 network points to connect servers and PCs. A high speed internet connection is available at the server room which is to be shared by the users of the network.
(You will need to demonstrate your assignment during laboratory class).
Write a report with the following contents
• Project Scope
• Project hardware requirements
- Name of the network device with manufacturer's name, series, model and ports
- Network topology
- Type of the cables
- Name of the server, PC with specification such as operating system, RAM, hard disk etc.
• Network Design in Netsim (You should not use packet tracer)
• Network device configurations
a. Switch configuration:
- set hostname as your family name
- set system clock to 30th December 2018 5:00pm
- display the name of the file and version of IOS
- display the name of the interfaces
b. Router configuration
- set hostname as your family name
- set system clock to 1st January 2019 12:00 am
- display the name of the file and version of IOS
- display the name of the interfaces.
Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements:
1. The answer should be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
2. The response also include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student's name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
3. Also Include a reference page. The Citations and references should follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.