Task
In your role as a Solutions Architect at Study Group, you are leading a team of several system administrators. Study Group is a medium sized organisation and is currently expanding its operations.
The company has acquired eight sites across Sydney to accommodate its various departments. You have been asked to design a network by utilizing 10.0.0.0 private IP address. The network should span eight buildings with a router in each building to join the networks. It is assumed that each building will have its own single subnet. Company expects approximately 1600 workstations and wireless devices across all the sites with approximate numbers in each building as follows:
- English school 480 workstations
- Accounting school - 250 workstations
- Transport Office - 130 workstations
- Research Office - 67 workstations
- Sales Office - 40 workstations
- Information technology school - 550 workstations
- Head Office - 90 workstations
- Public wireless access for authorised Study Group's users up to 600 devices at any one time for entire eight sites.
TASK 1 - Write a 1000 words (+/- 10%) report explaining:
a. The detailed design of a simple addressing solution (with diagram(s) and step by step workout of the calculations) that leaves room for growth, is easy to administer and has the minimum wastage of available IP address space.
b. Explain what happens to your design if the number of hosts per network jumps to over 1500 in English, Accounting and Information technology schools.
TASK 2 - Currently the company policy does not allow the use of network analysers on the organisational network. You have recently had a team meeting where all the staff are of the view that the use of network analysers can bring more efficiency in troubleshooting processes.
Write an 800 words (+/- 10%) report for the board of directors proposing to allow the use of network analysers for diagnostic purposes in new proposed network architecture. Your report should include:
a. Brief explanation of protocol in the context of communication networks and the role of network analysers. Explanation should include example of a situation where network analysers can be used in the context of Task 1.
b. An analysis of currently available network analyser tools. The analysis should contain:
i. Benefits, associated costs, ease of usability
ii. Recommendation from you, as to what tool would you prefer to use and why.