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:
- Explain human factors in achieving business and technical goals through planning and design.
- Develop architectural internetworking design for the business and application domains.
Length: 500 words.
Assignment 1 Description
Business case study: Network design proposal for a hotel
Description
The project aims to design a network for a hotel. The hotel has 5 floors including the ground floor. The ground floor has a lobby area. Each floor also has a lobby area. There are 40 rooms in each floor, each of which has a network point to which the guest PC is connected. The hotel network has two servers which are used by the staff. A high speed internet connection is available which is to be shared by the guest and staff network. There is a total of 25 staff in the hotel based at the ground floor.
(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
- 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 name
- set system clock to 25th April 2018 5:45pm
- display the name of the file and version of IOS
- display the name of the interfaces
- display 6 IOS modes
b. Router configuration
- set hostname as your family name
- set system clock to 20th May 2018 14:45pm
- display the name of the file and version of IOS
- display the name of the interfaces
- display 6 IOS modes.